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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of these kids are vaccinated by now.  Delta is going to infect some, no matter what.  They'll be sick and get over it.  Life goes on, OP.  [/quote]

[b]Some will die[/b], some will have shortened lives, some will have chronic conditions and some will not be able to have families or hold a job. In the end, a lot of family lines will die off and human population will be significantly culled. It will be great for the Earth.  [/quote]

highly unlikely.   Maybe if they had some other health issues going on.

Last school year 2 kids from my kid's college killed themselves by jumping off a tall building (two separte incidents, several weeks apart.)   ZERO died of Covid.  I'm far more concerned about the mental health of our young adults than Covid.[/quote]

[b]Can you acknowledge, somewhere in the echoing chamber of your skull, that contagious airborne diseases are a community risk, and we must team up to protect our most vulnerable? This includes vaccinated people who have waning immunity, the elderly who cannot mount a sufficient immune response despite multiple shots, the medically fragile, those who are allergic to a component of the vaccine and those who cannot yet receive a shot because they are in chemo. It also includes some children.

And when hospitals are overwhelmed, the increased mortality risk reaches EVERYONE, EVEN YOU. People die from easily-treated injuries or illnesses that would in normal times not have sealed their fate! This is happening all over the high-Covid states, in places where there are no ICU beds, or personnel is so beaten down they end up making mistakes.

It's one thing to declare that you are not a team player and you prefer having half a million excess American deaths every year from Covid for the foreseeable future, just so you can lead a normal life (flu kllls 30-50K a year).

It's quite another to say and do silly things without realizing exactly what the consequences are to your community and your country.[/b]

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+1,000 to the bold. But you and I are lone voices on threads like this one. There are so many people who don't know and do not care how disease transmission works, nor do they care about community risk, and their response to the vulnerable is to tell them to stay home forever. They also seem to insist that covid is pretty much like the flu now, endemic and not that big a deal. They say people like you and me are "hysterical" and should "go live the basement" etc. [b]They are the reason the pandemic has gone on and on[/b], and the reason more will die or suffer long covid. But PP in the bold -- you ARE right. [/quote]

Wrong.  This pandemic isn't ending until we reach herd immunity. Period.  Everyone who has been willing to get vaccinated has done so.  We need the rest to acquire natural immunity.  Of course, we don't want hospitals to be overwhelmed, so we need to track that and respond accordingly.  The sooner we reach herd immunity, the better for everyone - especially the vulnerable.  So why prolong it?  I'm hoping that once the vaccine is approved for under 12, we will stop fretting about cases, especially among the vaccinated.[/quote]

+1 The pandemic has not ended because of people who are eligible but refuse to get vaccinated.  That's it. No one is denying you can get Covid if you're vaccinated, but it is highly unlikely will end up dead or in a hospital. [/quote]

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