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    Consider, last year influenza killed 0 children in the US because we were all taking exceptional precautions, masking, distancing, in many cases moving to remote schooling, remote work, closing restaurants and theaters and Disneyland and everything ... and Covid still killed 400 children in the US (and put thousands in the hospital, and set untold thousands more up with chronic health problems) despite all of those measures, while influenza killed 0.

    If you want to imagine what those numbers would/will be like if we stop taking precautions and stop masking in public and just start living like it’s 2019, take a look at what's going on in a country that’s too poor to practically, socially distance mask up, keep kids out of group child care and school. If you want to see how vulnerable children really are to covid in a place that can't afford to do those things, take a look at Indonesia right now. They're literally losing 150 kids a week to COVID.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/…

    Our death rates are low because we've put in a lot of effort. Anyone who argues that kids have no/low risks don’t understand how hard we’ve been working to mitigate real risk, and what the consequences of just giving up, stop masking, distancing, protecting them, etc and letting them get Covid would be like.

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    • Yeah, I'm concerned for my son (12). Orange Co, Florida has stopped youth sports again. We are in Orange Co, CA, playing Pop Warner. School starts soon...lemmy_k
    • that's a rough one, those are some difficult decisions to makewhatthefunk
    • fucking NYT will make you afraid of your own shadow. shame on you for eating up their horseshit.pr2
    • Indonesia has 5x the childhood mortality of US; 1/15 of the per person income and 2x the population density. This is not comparing apples to oranges - rather...pr2
    • ...it's comparing apples to pigeon shit and somehow managing to find correlations. Leave it to NYT's "stable geniuses" to do just that.pr2
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