darkswordsman17
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I think you guys guys are vastly underestimating the impact on kids. All pediatric cancers kill an estimated 1000 kids per year in total. Covid has killed 1000 kids in the last two years and remains a top 10 cause of death. Kids under 11 have had access to vaccines for less than 3 months and kids under 5 still fucking don't. I live in an extremely high vaccination area and we haven't even hit 50% for kids 5-11, and obviously none under 5.
Masks are trivial. You can argue all day they make teaching more difficult and im sure they do. They're not nearly a burden as you guys are portraying them, and for more than half the kids under middle school age theyre basically the only mitigation they have.
You both keep minimizing the effects of covid on kids and say it doesn't hit them as hard. No shit. Theyre kids, they're more resilient than adults. You're both also discounting the other adverse outcomes that impact health outside of death, which is disingenuous. Currently more kids are being hospitalized now than at any stage in the pandemic. Should mask mandates go away in a month? Maybe. Now? Not a chance. Case rates are still double what they were at the peak of the back to school surge, and theyre already down by 75% from the current peak.
And just wait for their bullshit excuses for why they couldn't possibly have known it would have such longterm impact when in about a decade a bunch of teens and 20 somethings start having serious health issues due to their COVID infections.
Further, teaching kids to mask up will pay huge dividends in the future, as more of them do that for non-COVID (or future coronaviruses) situations. On top of that, masks will help with other issues (respiratory especially), which are becoming a bigger issue due to pollution and climate change.
Any argument being made about masks being worse than spreading COVID is so incredibly fucked up and stupid that its mindboggling anyone would make it. The ones that are in this thread, well they maybe should notice they're in with Greenman and stop and think what that means.
