Nice job with those school closures all of you "follow the science, kids are resilliant" advocates.

Scores are getting even worse and the attendance rate is still falling in the urban schools. Really solved the " education inequality gap" didn't ya'll? How'd all those new air conditioning and filtration systems pan out with all that money allocated to schools specificaaly for that purpose?

 

From the CDC:
https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/data/vaccination-trends.html#:~:text=The%20percent%20of%20the%20pop ulation,47.8)%20among%20adults%2065%2B.


So the reality is that we have damn few kids currently up on theirCOVID vaccinations including a lot of babies who lost their maternally acquired immunity after six months. Even in the adults, less than 25% and most of those are in the elderly age group (who actually had a serious mortality to COVID initially). The child mortality during COVID overall was quite low and 60% was in children with one or more chronic medical conditions.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/154/Supplement%203/e2024067043K/199735/Characteristics-of-Children-Ages-1-17-Who-Died-of?autologincheck=redirected

And yet, despite three quarters of the adults not following current guidelines, we are seeing very low COVID mortality even in unvaccinated infants. COVID WAS NEVER A DISEASE WITH HIGH MORTALITY IN NORMAL HEALTHY CHILDREN, vaccinated or unvaccinated. While it was prudent for everyone to get their first exposure to COVID 19 through immunization, since it was a novel virus, almost half the total COVID mortality was in those 85 years and over. A more rational plan of keeping the schools open and only isolating people who were at particular risk until they had been vaccinated (and the rest of the kids gotten and recovered from the disease) could have avoided the generation of kids whose learning has now been impaired.

 

Imagine making this your entire identity.

 

You know how some people have "Long COVID"?

Well, there's a small group of people who have unfortunately been infected with CDS "COVID Derangement Syndrome".

Seems there's no cure. They're forever stuck in the summer of 2020. It's hopeless.

But you can hug them because, thank God, it's not contagious. It's just a mental illness.

 

My college roommate who's a doc has observed that a significant % of "long covid" patients are actually people who subcousciously "long" for the days of covid, when they could stay home, lay on the couch in their jammies, and not have to confront the realities of the real world and life.

And my buddy was a pretty hard over proponent of lockdowns, social measures and vaccines. I cut him some slack on that because he worked in a hospital, which was a daily war zone, and his wife was being treated for cancer at the time. Because he had daily exposure to covid patients (pre-vax) he had to physically segragete their house, block vent ducts, etc to keep his wife safe. They lived in the same house but in separate areas with no physical contact for almost a year.

 

What about the "Unmasked, unvaxxed, and unafraid" crowd?

They're living in their own version of 2020 perpetually. Mental illness indeed.

 

Funny how those that were so wrong for so long, just want to move on....

Instead of a hug I'd much rather take it to the Octagon, or even a nice HS wrestling mat.

 

Imagine being dumb enough to be ok with managments threatening careers over it. Or watching your kids having to endure the stupidity of parents and adults. Especially in the Pacific NW.

 

I'm sorry to hear about your buddy and his wife. I hope her recovery has gone well. I'm glad to hear they took whatever precautions they felt necessary at the time.

Certainly there is a lot of untreated mental illness in the nation. I wish our entire healthcare system was robust enough to extend care to all 335 million of us.

 

That's who I was referring to.