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biden administration putting a big happy seal of approval on the mountain of child corpses

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i don’t doubt that if a variant proves to be more deadly for kids than the original covid strain, those ghouls will suppress the data.

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Build Pile Better

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The Free Ice Cream program is coming, don’t worry.

The survivors will be happy.

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Real wave 2 of the Spanish Flu vibes.

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Yeah. Very fucking scary

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i was just abt 2 say thiz. Were so fcked lmfao

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does anyone have data on how many people were killed in each wave of the spanish flu?

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Way more in the second wave, cytokine storms meant that otherwise healthy and young people’s own immune system wound up killing them. Don’t recall the data off-hand though

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weird stuff.

One one hand, your “too strong” immune system kills you

On the other hand, high testosterone kills you by suppressing the immune system

It can’t be both without there being a fundamental radical misunderstanding in how immunity works

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Was there any hope that it was safe for kids?

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of course, because the original covid was no more dangerous for kids than the flu.

but this news about the delta variant seems bad. really bad.

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after actually reading the article:

While cases among children are growing at an alarming rate, the delta variant is not confirmed to be more dangerous in children than adults, Laham and other pediatric infectious disease experts nationwide told NBC News.

“It’s too early to tell,” Bernhard Wiedermann, an infectious diseases specialist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C. told NBC News. “It’s going to take time and a collection of data from multiple sites to know” if delta is more virulent in kids than previous strains of the virus.

this is clickbait, and absolutely disgusting clickbait that preys on parents’ fears for the children, at that. the increases in sick kids is because of an overall increase in cases, not an increase in sick kids per case, which would indicate a more deadly variant than the original. the Hill is such fucking trash.

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the delta variant is not confirmed to be more dangerous in children than adults

But that’s saying it’s not MORE dangerous. The other COVID is LESS dangerous to kids

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no more dangerous for kids than the flu.

:dril:

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Why is it so much worse in the states. Delta doesn’t seem to be shit here. I mean, over 80% are vaccinated, but still.

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with that level of population immunization, it probably can’t spread through community transmission as easily. it’s just really infectious. so it’s getting everyone not-vaccinated infected really quickly, and there’s enough of them to keep it circulating and spreading.

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:doomjak:

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From what I have seen, we had almost no pediatric fataltities from vanilla covid. I have seen a handful with this spicy covid. So it it too soon to tell but something is going on. I couldn’t say how much of what I have seen locally holds true for anyplace else.

Also I dunno if we can pick the signal out of the noise if it is because people don’t care about safety anymore or the new strian. Too early to tell but probably both though.

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