COVID-19 Is About to Become A Disease That’s Mostly for Kids https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/covid-19-become-disease-mostly-172845365.html Kids’ share of COVID-19 cases is the highest it’s ever been in the US, recently topping 20 percent of all cases, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. This number may seem scary, but it’s actually good news. Because more than half of all adults have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, they’re getting sick less often. Kids don’t have access to the vaccine yet and won’t for months, so their share of cases will continue to rise even if the total number of kids getting the disease doesn’t. In fact, the total number of kids testing positive for the coronavirus is fairly low right now. About 88,000 children were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the week ending April 15, according to the report. In comparison, kids’ cases spiked at more than 200,000 per week in January. More than 3.6 million kids in the US have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. But child hospitalization and mortality rates remain low. In all states reporting, 0.03 percent or less of kids with COVID-19 died last week. “For the average kid, COVID is a negligible risk,” Aaron Richterman, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania, told the New York Times. “I do think of it as on par with the risk from flu,” Stephen Kissler, a researcher at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told the Times. For children aged 1-17, COVID-19 was the 10th biggest killer in 2020. Influenza ranked number seven for kids the year prior, although COVID-19 killed more than 16 times as many adults than the flu did. Apart from infection, everyday risks to kids are also higher than the risk of COVID-19. Drowning kills twice as many kids per year than the coronavirus, and car accidents kill five times as many. “If protecting children from small but real risks of serious harm were society’s top goal, keeping children away from pools and cars would probably have a bigger effect than isolating them in coming months,” wrote Times COVID-19 reporter David Leonhardt. The vaccines are only approved for people age 16 and older right now. Tweens and teens may have to wait until the start of the school year or later to get their shot, and younger kids may not be eligible until early 2022. After that, their share of the COVID-19 burden should decline.
Enrollment is down in public schools. Teachers unions in for a rude suprise when layoffs come because there are less students to teach? As parents realize that private schools and charter schools do a better job than public schools, this trend is just starting. So, keep making outrageous demands, refuse to go back to the classrooms because it would encourage parents to take their kids elsewhere. Also, online education is growing by leaps and bounds and jobless teachers in third world countries who are more knowledgeable and competent would be taking teachers jobs in the US soon enough. China is already using foreign teachers for online classes including, in English. Smart parents will realize that foreign teachers will do a better job of educating their children, at a fraction of the cost without the communist or socialist indoctrination thrown in for good measure.
Another university requiring a COVID vaccine for returning students in the fall. This is becoming quite the trend. Another N.J. college to require students to get COVID vaccine before returning for fall semester https://www.nj.com/education/2021/0...ccine-before-returning-for-fall-semester.html A seventh New Jersey college — Drew University — says students must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by the time time the fall semester begins. (More at above url)
Of course schools have anti-masker idiot parents filing lawsuits to deal with. Oh... poor kids with the "trauma" of masks -- it's so much worse than the trauma of dead people killed by the spread of COVID. Several families sue Johnson County school districts over ‘the trauma’ of COVID masks https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/education/article251210819.html
Only trauma from wearing a masks is realizing you have karen pussy parents who sue so you don't have to wear a mask.... I would say home school those kids but the kids don't deserve the trauma being inflcited on them by their karen parents.
Sure, but don't pay attention to every teacher has a vaccine, every parent does (that wants one) and kids aren't at risk from COVID. Don't even count the fact that mask mandates don't work. But its the parents who are the problem.
Once again you are pushing the "kids aren't at risk from COVID" nonsense. As the pile of bodies of children and young people worldwide grow at alarming rates.
How many kids, school age died from COVID since this began in the United States? Surely you know, since you claim there is a "pile of bodies of children"
We are all at risk all the time you fucking idiot... You have to measure the risk vs reward vs remedy and the impingement upon freedom. And I guarantee to you putting a mask on kids full time with have negative consequences that we learn about in the future. I remember WRB's ( a little reference to his comment a few days ago) mom laughing and saying hey asbestos is great for protecting us against fire and there are no long terms risks.
I did not hear the school forcing a vaccine, I just heard the school asking the kids to wear a mask in the school where kids are on top of each other all day in tight spaces... Masks reduce transmissions of airborne diseases plain and simple. It is not that hard to wear a mask in school. I have not seen any place with a mask mandate that was adhered to at all close to 100% so to say they don't work.. it is better to say people don't follow rules. People are not catching Covid in restuarants and malls where people are masked and socially distant and it is cleaned regularly. Most spread now is in private homes or groups of people getting together and forgoing all safety precautions. Contact tracing has helped to rule out most restaurants and gyms and support the argument for opening them up following the rules. But I know plenty of people who travel outside their state and say fuck the rules so why are we surprised COVID still spreading around. In my county we got masks and social distancing but all the stores, restaurants and sporting events have people and cases are dropping real fast.