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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The H1N1/swine flu was much, much less deadly than Covid.  H1N1 infected 6 million people in the US and killed just 12.5K people altogether, for a mortality rate of 0.02% across the whole population.  H1N1 killed about 600K people WORLDWIDE, whereas that is how many people it has killed so far in the US alone.  Different viruses.[/quote]

Not to children.  It was much deadlier to children (1,800 children estimated in US for H1N1 in 2009-201 vs. 198 for COVID in 2020, 241 in 2021).

All of these regulations are absurd for children at this point, when you compare COVID to H1N1 or other bad flu seasons (434 est. for 2019-2020, 477 for 2018-2019, 643 for 2017-2018, 803 for 2014-2015, 1,161 for 2012-2013).
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html

So children have to be the sole bearer of the burden of COVID regulations, a disease that barely affects them?  There are 3 vaccines available for the rest of the population. [/quote]

You're so ignorant.  You just can't, or won't, accept that children are at greater risk now with:  the Delta variant, and other adults and teens vaccinated.  The Delta variant is more highly and easily transmissible and it and children ARE being hospitalized and some ARE dying.  And if you don't stop the spread, MORE children will get the virus, which means more children will have significant illness and/or need hospitalization and/or die.  The other poster you're debating with is correct:  today's situation and variables are NOT the same as one year ago.[/quote]

This is a religion to you, no matter what the facts. Why?

There are a total of 20 hospitalizations of children "with" COVID in the entire state of VA right now (check CDC data).  Considering that easily over 1/2 of those hospitalizations could be for other causes, let's say 10 "for" COVID.  How many of those kids likely have other significant comorbidities?  10 out of 10.

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