Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

https://www.q13fox.com/news/ohio-state-study-30-of-student-athletes-have-heart-damage-linked-to-covid-19

Does no one understand that by distance learning you are also protecting parents, many of whom are not on a priority list, from covid? I send my kid to school and their exposures automatically become my exposures because even if they don’t show symptoms they bring the virus home. Vaccinating teachers is a good start but what about the parents who the kids come home to? DL is frankly working fine for us and is much less disruptive than the disruption of having a parent die or suffer long term health complications from covid.

In places in the US where schools are open, so is everything else, and covid is rampant in the community. My sense is that the attitude in these places is that folks have given up. That is one approach.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it should be a normal school year. Why not? The adults are the ones at risk, and they will be vaccinated.

+1

Tell that to my friend who’s 2 year old and 5 year have covid. Everyone can get it!

Daycares in DC have been open for months, as well as private schools, and the benefits far outweigh the risks. Yes, anyone can get it but we'll have school-aged kids get an education remotely for years to come? I think that in the coming months, as people get vaccinated and the risks are even lower we'll have to live with the fact that some cases might still occur, but schools have to open and learn how to navigate the new normal. Not opening in fall would have tremendous consequences for parents and kids alike.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

Yes, exactly. Not to minimize the higher fatality rate of COVID and its long-term effects in some people, but influenza can also cause multiple complications and is especially risky for younger kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Are you planning on keeping your children at home during the annual influenza season?

My kids get a flu shot every year. Last I checked 7 years olds aren’t eligible for the COVID vaccine.
Try again

Ugh. People really don’t understand. Kids between 2-6 are more at risk of dying from flu B than COVID *even if vaccinated.* Seriously. People seem to either be COVID denying idiots or have bought into the COVID doom and gloom so much they’ve sacrificed their rationality. C
This is *all* about teachers and family members at the elementary school level, especially young elementary where COVID mortality is roughly equivalent to strep mortality. If it makes you feel better to pretend this is all for kids’ benefits, fine. But it’s not. We are sacrificing kids’ well-being for others. Once those others have the option of vaccination? People better recalibrate quickly.

This. It has disgusted me from the beginning of this pandemic that the specter of kids getting severely sick has been used in order to get parents on board with school closures. It was disingenuous and frankly immoral to play on parents’ fears like that.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/ohio-state-finds-heart-damage-in-15-percent-of-college-athletes-after-covid/67-f54e9940-22a8-4ce3-a4a2-a2c533229953

You seem to be reading only the articles that feed into the excessive doom and gloom. Again, like others have said before, young kids are not part of the COVID high-risk group. Stop saying schools are closed for their benefit; once vaccination is more widespread among adults schools can safely reopen.

Or you can also google articles about influenza, strep, etc., and you'll want to dig a hole in the sand and live there.

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

How do we know if it’s “permanent” if it’s only been a few months?

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Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

Yes, exactly. Not to minimize the higher fatality rate of COVID and its long-term effects in some people, but influenza can also cause multiple complications and is especially risky for younger kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Are you planning on keeping your children at home during the annual influenza season?

My kids get a flu shot every year. Last I checked 7 years olds aren’t eligible for the COVID vaccine.
Try again

Ugh. People really don’t understand. Kids between 2-6 are more at risk of dying from flu B than COVID *even if vaccinated.* Seriously. People seem to either be COVID denying idiots or have bought into the COVID doom and gloom so much they’ve sacrificed their rationality. C
This is *all* about teachers and family members at the elementary school level, especially young elementary where COVID mortality is roughly equivalent to strep mortality. If it makes you feel better to pretend this is all for kids’ benefits, fine. But it’s not. We are sacrificing kids’ well-being for others. Once those others have the option of vaccination? People better recalibrate quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

Yes, exactly. Not to minimize the higher fatality rate of COVID and its long-term effects in some people, but influenza can also cause multiple complications and is especially risky for younger kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Are you planning on keeping your children at home during the annual influenza season?

My kids get a flu shot every year. Last I checked 7 years olds aren’t eligible for the COVID vaccine.
Try again

DP. The flu vaccine is only partially effective. They can still get the flu including complications. Their statistical probability of getting severely sick from Covid is unlikely to be higher.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

Yes, exactly. Not to minimize the higher fatality rate of COVID and its long-term effects in some people, but influenza can also cause multiple complications and is especially risky for younger kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Are you planning on keeping your children at home during the annual influenza season?

My kids get a flu shot every year. Last I checked 7 years olds aren’t eligible for the COVID vaccine.
Try again

Children are not part of the COVID high-risk group, contrary to influenza, and you know that well.

Are you seriously thinking eight months from now you'll still have to keep them at home? Maybe it's because you are planning on private school or tutors and can afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

Yes, exactly. Not to minimize the higher fatality rate of COVID and its long-term effects in some people, but influenza can also cause multiple complications and is especially risky for younger kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Are you planning on keeping your children at home during the annual influenza season?

My kids get a flu shot every year. Last I checked 7 years olds aren’t eligible for the COVID vaccine.
Try again

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

Yes, exactly. Not to minimize the higher fatality rate of COVID and its long-term effects in some people, but influenza can also cause multiple complications and is especially risky for younger kids.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/symptoms.htm

Are you planning on keeping your children at home during the annual influenza season?

Anonymous wrote:Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.

are you going to forever keep your kid home during flu season too? much bigger risk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it should be a normal school year. Why not? The adults are the ones at risk, and they will be vaccinated.

+1

Tell that to my friend who’s 2 year old and 5 year have covid. Everyone can get it!

Daycares in DC have been open for months, as well as private schools, and the benefits far outweigh the risks. Yes, anyone can get it but we'll have school-aged kids get an education remotely for years to come? I think that in the coming months, as people get vaccinated and the risks are even lower we'll have to live with the fact that some cases might still occur, but schools have to open and learn how to navigate the new normal. Not opening in fall would have tremendous consequences for parents and kids alike.

Someone posted an article in a previous thread that said that 30% of student athletes at Ohio State who were diagnosed with Covid previously, now have permanent heart damage. I can’t find the article myself but if anyone finds it please post.

There is so much we don’t know about COVID. Research and studies are coming out every day.