Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Even that quote above is misleading and not saying what it should.
"Far less likely" is an understatement. Why not just share the actual difference in pediatric deaths versus deaths of older adults? Why not share the fact that fewer than 500 children have died of COVID, which are comparable numbers to late-2010s flu in the same number of months?
Most importantly, why the "some children can develop long-term symptoms regardless of how serious the initial symptoms were" bullshit, when this has never been proven to be happening to children in large numbers? The one study repeatedly cited (out of the UK, from what I remember) was very poorly done and had tons of holes in it. Very few children are suffering from long COVID. By saying "some children can develop long term symptoms", they are implying it is fairly common.
So you're satisfied with mainstream media coverage on COVID danger, huh?
Then explain this:
That's from the NY Times in March 2021.
You just completely avoided my timeline of events. Do you dispute it? The focus early on in the pandemic was to protect old people and first responders (Obvious Cuomo didn't get the memo). Now people over 65 are over 80% vaccinated so they aren't the focus. If the total population was at their rate, covid would be pretty much dead in the US and we wouldn't have 2k people dying a day. Almost everyone would either have had the virus or would be vaccinated. You'd be playing the WSOP right now.
The question is, why do you doubt any information that covid has long term effects on children while being scared of the long term effects vaccines may have on children when there's zero evidence of that? You lack consistency with have you view things. You cite that the virus doesn't kill many kids which is true but you avoid talking about the fact that the vaccine kills zero kids.
I wrote this before, there's 4 kinds of people:
People who are scared of the vaccine and scared of the virus.
People who aren't scared of the vaccine and aren't scared of the virus.
People who are scared of the virus but not scared of the vaccine.
People who are not scared of the virus but are scared of the vaccine.
Even if I don't agree with some of the people in the first 3 categories, I can still see where they're coming from to a certain extent.
It's the 4th group that makes no sense to me. How you can be scared of the possible long term effects of the vaccine but not scared at all of the possible long term effects of covid is ridiculous to me. There's tons of data on long term damage covid does to organs thus I have to assume it's doing other damage we don't even know of. But you're not concerned, you're concerned about possible vaccine long term effects with currently zero data to support this fear. I'm not saying it isn't possible that the vaccine does long term damage but at this point it's irrational to fear the vaccine over the virus IMO.
Gimmick posted a bunch of data and studies in the other thread that you're avoiding. I've yet to see you post anything to backup your POV. But I'm waiting with an open mind.
Just curious, you keep citing how MSM is covering this. Which liberal shows do you typically consume? The only liberal one I ever even give 5 minutes to is Andrew Cuomo and that's a stretch.