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    • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      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.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      3 years ago

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

      The survivors will be happy.

      • Sushi_Desires
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        3 years ago

        He's an ice cream eater, that's for sure https://www.eater.com/2020/4/24/21234361/joe-bidens-campaign-spent-over-10000-on-jenis-ice-cream

    • Shitbird [any]
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      3 years ago

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

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        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

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          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

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Was there any hope that it was safe for kids?

    • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        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.

          • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            I wonder what the rate of long term neurological impact is going to be, given long covid in adults can be pretty brutal even if they’re not hospitalised

            • PlantsRstillCool [des/pair]
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              3 years ago

              One death is one death too many but this is what really scares me.

              We could end up with half the population having some kind of long term neurological damage

          • Pezevenk [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Could it aslo just be downplaying by the press though

            Idk why people think the press always downplays things but it is kind of the opposite, the press really really likes doing the opposite of downplaying because it causes more panic reads.

          • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            that is anecdotal and based on kids who come into the hospital. i bet there are WAY more infected kids than that. that doctor is only seeing the ones who are the sickest. 10% of the ones who come into the hospital need to be hospitalized makes sense, because that's why they are there. i don't think it's a good indicator of whether the new variant is any more deadly than the previous strains.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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

      • Koa_lala [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        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.

        • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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          3 years ago

          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.

  • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    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.

  • LangdonAlger [any]
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    3 years ago

    Having headlines like this in The Hill of all places kinda feels like it's hinting that Biden will "have to lock down cuz all the science and media says so". It's a setup

      • Sushi_Desires
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        3 years ago

        The Monkey's Paw Curls

        Lockdown is reinitiated, but there is no rent forgiveness or eviction moratorium. 60 Million families are evicted from their homes, which Blackrock buys for 20 cents on the dollar. Far right anti-vaxx extrimest violence is on the rise because of the lockdown, and there is a mass shooting on average every 18 hours in each of the 50 states.

    • Shitbird [any]
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      3 years ago

      fuck i hop so thiz is gunna git baddd

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Really

    The virus that is dangerous for humans is also dangerous for slightly smaller humans

    Who would have fucking guessed

    • BruceWillis [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      yeah but that's not really how it works. covid was super deadly for older people, the spanish flu mostly killed people in their 20s. etc.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          No, covid vanilla was hardly dangerous for children barring few rare cases, almost no children ever even got hospitalized, and this one is probably still not nearly as dangerous as it is for adults. It's just not the same across all ages. So far 300 children in the US have died in total. Compare that to the 616k deaths overall.

      • Shitbird [any]
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        3 years ago

        the spanish flu episode 1 waz just supr deadly for old people. they didnt take it super srsly bcz of this. then the flu evolvd nto episode 2.

        ep 2 killed kids and people in their 20s. They didnt giv a fuk at first & theen the vrius came back 4 seconds.

        We had a century and we've learned nothing.

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Maybe they are talking about the 12+ group? I dunno. But yeah kids below 12 years old aren't being vaccinated at all and it's gonna be some time before they are probably.

          • starvedhystericnudes [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Nah, won't be enough to bother at this rate

            Haha, piles of dead children so big we have to start having corpse fires again, murrca, you scamp!

    • starvedhystericnudes [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Okay but look, childcare is expensive, and especially when you're work from home you just can't have them around all day, Jesus! Look, I had kids to give my shallow facade of a life deliberately stripped of all autonomy and meaning some sort of substance, and something I could boss around, not to fucking raise and teach and nurture and spend time with the fucking things!

      So yeah, refrigerated trucks functioning as auxiliary morgues full of tiny little bodies, but at least I'll have some fucking quiet.

  • Teekeeus
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    2 months ago

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  • RootVegetable [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    What if, instead of waiting around for worldwide infertility, we produce the material conditions of Children of Men by simply genociding the youths?