https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1423750731459346435
Just embrace #conservativelogic, those kids would have died of something else anyway it’s no big deal.
I can’t put into words how mad I am about this with my kids going back to school. Our governor signed a “no mask mandate” law, so this thing is going to rip like wild fire through schools all over the state. It is putting my kids at risk and I want to take a golf club to these assholes.
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NYT is such a fucking rag
If, however, Florida comes through another virus peak with both its hospital system and economy intact, Mr. DeSantis’s game of chicken with the deadly pandemic could become a model for how to coexist with a virus that is unlikely to ever fully vanish.
Why a golf club instead of something else?
“He leaves behind his wife, Melissa, who is COVID positive, as well as their infant son Reid,” a GoFundMe page set up to help pay for funeral expenses reads.
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Are the folks in line masked or are we going to get an amazing study of known positives infecting others based on number in line?
350 EASILY preventable deaths (yes some of the others are too). Plus it’s becoming more and more apparent that Delta has a higher ifr in children.
And do you know what a lot of infants have? Unvaxxed school aged sibkings.
I know that’s not the point of your post, but many will use the same logic to argue OFS and NO BIG DEAL Libtards.
https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1423794350862082048?s=21
https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1423794353487630338?s=21
https://twitter.com/cleavon_md/status/1423794634782871561?s=21
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Doctors aren’t immune to Fox News propaganda either. Although on this particular issue, I’d assume their immunity is pretty high (but not perfect). I’d guess (?hope) that this is one of those situations where it’s really only a small percentage of users spewing the nonsense.
“Ask your doctor” seems fine and all but on FNC it is just code for “do your own research!!”
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School arguments are close to academic at this point for individual parents. There are few remote school accommodations this year and no push to close schools anywhere. It is either one parent leaves whatever job they may have and homeschools or most all kids are going full time in person.
Best we can do is push for sensible policies in school. Realistically, barring imminent vaccination approval for 5-12, much of this cohort is basically just going to catch delta while unvaccinated.
My ten year ago self would have not been able to comprehend that we would force innocent children to essentially be mass infected by a wildly dangerous novel virus. It truly is remarkable where we have come in such a short period of time.
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This is solid information. It’s also important to note that pediatric COVID stats are usually reported with a cutoff age of 17 or 18. For under-12s, the stats are doubtless even less alarming. In terms of severity, for young kids only, COVID is probably not as bad (or at least not significantly worse than) flu or RSV or all these other minor diseases that kill small numbers of kids every year. The trade off is that it’s much more infectious, so more kids will get it.
For my money, the outrageous school policy things going on now are:
- Unvaccinated teachers
- Unvaccinated teachers
- Unvaccinated teachers
- Unvaccinated students of vaccinatable age.
- Slow vaccine approval for 5-12
- Schools without mask mandates
- People wanting to shut down schools.
Way down the list. Everything else.
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I get it. Didn’t at first
Preventable as society.
The bigger worry for me is, whoopsie, turns out this does have more common long-terms effects, now my healthy kids and a good portion of the younger generation are fucked up for life
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Update from my covid-infected 37 year old friend.
“Got put on a z-pack and seemed to have calmed the cough with some cough syrup too. The muscle aches are the worst thing right now. My entire back and neck muscles feel absolutely exhausted”.
Another friend, also in his 30’s was diagnosed with upper-respiratory infection. His covid test just came back negative. I told him “Great. Now go get vaccinated.”
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