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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what?  For the last few years there has been a polio-like virus (acute flaccid myelitis) circulating that has paralyzed kids.  Doctors don’t know why or how to treat it.  The flu also kills 37 to 187 kids per year.  These are highly contagious viruses and genuinely dangerous to kids, but we don’t seem to think about them.  But talk about COVID toes and a rare inflammatory syndrome that may or may not be coronavirus related and is unlikely to affect your kid, and people are terrified.[/quote]

My kid actually had acute flaccid myelitis and improbably recovered without residual effects.  The acute-onset paralysis reversed itself after a week.  The episode came out of nowhere and blindsided us; there was no media coverage really at the point my child got sick and no cluster of cases at that point in the DMV.   Nobody talks about this even though there have been hundreds of cases nationwide in the last several years and most kids have lingering effects, including paralysis.

Conversely, every COVID development is breathlessly covered by the media/ social media and you can't escape the subject even if you actively try.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/06/10/666230.full.pdf

https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/14/acute-flaccid-myelitis-possible-cause-paralysis-kids/[/quote]

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