Originally Posted by
nunbeater
so if your kid died from covid you would be cool with it? I mean it's not killing that many kids as a percentage
If my kid died of anything at a young age I wouldn't be "cool with it".
But that doesn't mean potentially harmful measures should be forced upon him, in order to reduce what is already a tiny chance of death.
Every day is a series of risk calcluations. When I chose to take my kid on a road trip in July to Colorado and Arizona, I was definitely increasing the chance that he would die in a car accident during those two weeks. However, the benefit of the trip versus the low chance he'd die in a car accident made the tradeoff worth it.
Similarly, I do not feel the need for oppressive masking and distancing rules (which have definite social costs to developing kids), nor do I feel the state should mandate vaccination for a disease which is handled very well by almost all kids, and where it appears they are rarely transmitting.
Why didn't you support mandatory masking during the 2018-19 flu season, which killed a similar number of kids per month as COVID has?
Knee-jerk idiots are casting the COVID danger of older adults onto kids, and it's not at all comparable. We wouldn't be talking about COVID if the general population was dying from it at the low rate kids are. It would be a non-issue, like the Swine Flu was.
99% of all COVID deaths in the US are people over 35 years old, even though people 35+ make up only a little more than half the population. Kids under 18 make up 0.06% of all COVID deaths, despite being about 23% of the population.
Mathematics doesn't seem to mean much to the SCIENCE left, though.