Casualties of reopening schools: Children dying from COVID-19
www.wsws.org
Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases throughout the United States, hundreds of children have lost their lives to the disease.

Can't wait for the narrative to be that "it was only a few kids" and not "perhaps we shouldn't have abruptly reopened schools"

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

    In addition to the possibility of serious illness and death, COVID-19 has been shown to severely impact cognitive development, on par with lead poisoning.

    The whole article messed me up, but... fuck, maybe this will get through to some of the boomers I've been ranting at

    • YouKnowIt [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Yeah, the boomers would hate for there to be a young generation with the same type of brain poison as them

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

        I mean the ones I've been working on are well-meaning libs who legitimately adore children so it should. Last year they were just about ready to call for an armed communist revolution but unfortunately they've got terminal NPR brain and Biden winning punted them firmly back into lib land, which I've been working on. Hopefully will be able to get them hooked back up to Citations Needed soon, that did wonders until they had some life stuff go down and couldn't deal with the stress of seeing behind the proverbial curtain

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

        Yeah, hoping it's not a 1:1 comparison, or that the effects aren't permanent or diminish over time or something. Shit's grim