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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sooo... there is nothing that says that the increased virulence is magically restricted to adults.

Remember when we were reading that children could magically never be infected? Or be ill? Or when we read that they magically never could transmit?

This poor NYTimes article came out many long long hours before the WaPo game-changing article on CDC's new understanding of the pandemic.[/quote]

[b]No, no one said that children couldn't be infected or be ill or transmit. [/b] Yes, it is still true that children are less likely to get, be ill from, and (probably) transmit alpha covid.

Yes, delta is being shown to be more transmissible, and that is true for children, as reflected in the articles cited above.

No, you haven't seen anything that says that delta is worse than alpha for kids who contract it.

Yes, there are more cases of delta in children than alpha, because it is more transmissible.  Yes, that means that the overall number of kids who get sick from covid (delta) will be higher.

Why don't we....idk....wait for data before losing our minds?[/quote]

Ohh, you're *that* kind of guy.
The kind that denies the prior batch of untrue placating bullshit, feeds a new fresh heaping, and when that doesn't work, suggests we wait before losing our minds.[/quote]

DP. [b]Nobody except the dumbest Trumpers ever said that kids "magically" could not be infected, get ill, or transmit. [/b]Maybe there were some posters of that ilk here on DCUM as well, but why do you think the PP was among them? That's quite an assumption on an anonymous forum. What sane people here and elsewhere have been emphasizing all along is what you can read in the PP's follow up post - that kids are very unlikely to get severely ill (still true with delta), and less likely than adults to get infected and transmit (probably still true with delta, but maybe less so).

You do sound panicked though, so any nuance in arguments may just have gotten scrambled in your mind.[/quote]
Just like a year from now you might say "Nobody except the dumbest Trumpers ever said that long-covid didn't exist in children."  What many are saying on here amounts to the same thing though. They're saying that it's largely hypothetical, and so rare it should be irrelevant to parenting decisions and policy decisions.[/quote]

You can speculate all you want about what I or some other anonymous poster might say a year from now. Your assumptions change nothing about the veracity of my post.[/quote]
LOL. Somebody just said it  one thread over.[/quote]
[i]"It'd be a lot better and easier to just mandate the vaccine for public employees. We have to start getting back to normal. Kid to kid transmission is very unlikely." [/i]Only the dumbest of Trumpers, eh? Even I didn't think people believed that 'ish in 2021. I was reeling about when they said it in 2020.[/quote]

I didn't post that comment, but in 2020, kid to kid transmission in schools, especially when masks were worn but even without, has proved to be indeed very unlikely. When there have been cases in schools and close contacts were tested, here and abroad, these cases usually proved to be isolated.

It remains to be seen to what extent that changes with delta.[/quote]

Could we do the math now? It is 1000x more transmissable and lives in the nose (which kids like to pick). They said it's more contagious than ebola. Would you sit in a closed classroom with 20 cloth-masked children who might have ebola for 8 hours a day?[/quote]

No, but they would happily send their kids to do it so they could have "socialization."  :roll: [/quote]

Please note that PP‘s claim of thousandfold transmissibility is faults.[/quote]

*false not faults. Voice recognition [/quote]
I'm the first quoted PP on this, and I didn't make the 1000x claim or give the Ebola classroom image.
But at this point the increased transmissibility of delta in comparison to the original covid is stated by officials to be entirely game-changing, so the number doesn't make so much of a difference - outside of the petty scorekeeping of whether falsities are shared by either 'side' of the classroom-cramming debate.[/quote]

oh ffs. If you can’t tell the difference between 50% and 1000x, maybe you should not be opining at all?[/quote]

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