Western media is reporting that it's all normal viruses hitting harder due to "immunity debt" from the lockdowns. But what is happening in China, the rise in pneumonia cases especially among kids, is also happening in Ohio, Massachusetts, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Ireland and other areas of the world.

The stict (real) lockdowns in China were limited in area and duration to contain covid outbreaks until cases went to zero, and most of the country lived relatively normally for the first couple years of the pandemic outside of those lockdowns.

I saw at least one UK news source report that China said it was in part because covid harms the immune system, and the article was later edited to removed that part.

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What immunity debt, or immunity gap, originally meant was that infectious disease was controlled so well that most of the population had no recent exposure to any common viruses, and that we should expect those common viruses to infect more people in a short amount of time once anti-covid measures were dropped. That most common viruses are seasonal and there is no long lasting immunity to them is kinda ignored... but, whatever. It later got re-interpreted to argue that we were harming our immune systems by not exposing ourselves to viruses year round like we used to, which is complete nonsense.

Before the pandemic we would laugh at anyone who suggested we lick doorknobs to boost our immunity, and now it's a common talking point among the "return to normal" crowd to explain why everyone is getting sicker than before the pandemic. Basically it's so that we don't ever dare to try and impose "lockdowns" ever again, and get the public on board with the idea that we should just let the next pathogen fuck everyone up because "the cure is worse than the disease".

I guess next up is "why are we bothering trying to prevent food poisoning? Just shit and puke and get it over with, and you'll be good as gold and won't have to worry about it!" or "Why worry about sewage in the drinking water? Cholera only kills the old and sick anyway".

The truth is that covid can fuck up the immune system, and it's infectious enough to infect damn near everybody, so the common causes of illness that normally go around are hitting a lot of people harder than they used to. How long our immune systems will be impacted, and what will happen with constant repeat infections, no one really knows but there's a lot of evidence suggesting it will be bad.

This article goes over a lot of the science behind it: Immunity Debt: The Conspiracy Theory Elevated to Popular Pseudoscience That Is Making Children Sick

Nee thing called "white lung" hits kids hard.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pneumonia-white-lung-syndrome-ohio-china-b2457720.html

Health authorities in Ohio have alerted in recent days of a paediatric surge of cases of pneumonia in the state.

The Warren County Health District said in a statement on Wednesday that 145 cases of pneumonia have been reported in children between the ages of three and 14 since August. In an initial news release on Tuesday, the health district confirmed that the spreading illness was deemed an “outbreak” due to the above-average case volumes.

Recent media reports have drawn comparisons between the spike in cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, dubbed “white lung syndrome,” in both Ohio and China. But health officials in the state have warned that the outbreak is not linked to China’s — meaning that the strains seen by Ohio doctors are not spreading from country to country.

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