Yeah, I get that there will always be stupid people in the world, but I guess what I was getting at with my question is the fate of legislation requiring core standard vaccinations for children to attend school, and the like. ISTM this whole anti-vax movement may be blunted by current events.
What anti-vaxxers don’t get is that vaccines are the reason we don’t have to go through this sort of song-and-dance on a regular basis.
See, this may not be a terrible idea, if a few things were true:
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[li]COVID-19 has an almost zero risk of causing serious harm to younger children[/li][li]You are only contagious for a limited (and known) amount of time[/li][li]Reinfection is rare bordering on non-existent[/li][li]All involved children can be quarantined for the length of time they are contagious[/li][/ol]
The first looks like it is true. However, the second and third have not been confirmed yet. And, would these parents agree to the last?
New data out of China shows that severe and critical illness from this virus can occur in children, particularly the youngest ones.
“Among children less than a year old, 10.6% had severe or critical disease. For children ages 1 to 5, that number was still high at 7.3%. It dropped to 4.2% for 6-to-10-year-olds, 4.1% for 11-to-15-year-olds, and 3% for those 16 and older. Interestingly, the only child who died was 14 years old.”
Organizing “COVID parties” should at the least lead to opprobrium and, one would hope, legal sanctions.
If she had succeeded, I hope that you would report her to the appropriate agencies since she would be putting her kids and other kids at risk - not to mention parents and grandparents.
Not just the children would have to be quarantined, but the parents also. And not just our shelter in place quarantine, the not go anywhere quarantine.
I’d drop off some loud toys for the kids to keep them busy - drum sets, noisemakers, you know.
It’s a terrible idea even i #1 is true. With outbreaks, the objective is to reduce disease vectors. Grouping people together creates not just more vectors, but multiples of vectors - it’s math, dude.
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I am not claiming that these are true or this is a good idea.**
If, and only if, all 4 are true this would reduce disease vectors as all these children would not only not be able to spread the disease immediately (due to being strictly quarantined), but would not be able to ever spread the disease as they could not be carriers in the future.
One assumption underlying these as well is that the virus will not mutate so that the assumptions won’t change.
But even if all 4 are true, you’re ignoring that you can’t quarantine kids completely separate from their parents So you would need to add #5: COVID-19 has an almost zero risk of causing serious harm to parents. Which is demonstrably untrue.
The first child has died in LA, so there goes that idea.
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I forgot about this thread. Mayim, consider our engagement over. I can do better, though you can’t.
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Where on Earth do idiots get the idea that kids are immune or only get mile cases? Is this a part of Trump’s magical thinking?
Apparently, some of those idiots post here.
CMC fnord!
And why did flyer get banned?
My sister-in-law is claiming that only vaccinated people are getting Covid-19. There are not enough rolleyes in the world.
Doesn’t virtually everyone in the US (or the developed world) have at least some of the usual vaccinations? So if “only vaccinated people are getting Covid-19”, who is she referring to?
Smart people that don’t by into her woo?
The ignorant scumbags are being now guided by fake news from anti high speed wifi dunderheads, Q-anon trolls and even Russian and Chinese bot trolls.
I had a nasty encounter with one video that a superior thought it was a good idea to share with all in the room. I was lucky to not get fired, it was propaganda disguised as a religious video from a “christian preacher” that, besides defending Donald Trump’s early inaction, managed to link all the items mentioned here and even tossed the Illuminati in the end. :rolleyes:
It is getting really nasty, but not surprising to me that the extreme right is attracted to yet again another conspiracy theory against science or knowledge. Marat would be proud.
Yesterday a video titled ‘10 Herbs That Kill Viruses and Clear Mucus from Your Lungs’ showed up in my Youtube feed. I have no idea why because I don’t watch crap like that at all. I have reported the video but it is still up.
Somehow I have been on a spam email list that gives me at least one email per day. They have an identical structure and layout, yet every one comes from a different address, which makes it impossible to block them. I’m quite sure they are from a single source, and this has been going on for years. The longevity of the campaign suggests it is not an experiment, but a profitable enterprise.
A common thread to this email series? 100% of them tout products (we can’t call them medicines) that have no scientific validity whatsoever. One Hundred Fucking Percent!