https://www.today.com/today/rcna50033

  • macabrett
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    2 years ago

    damn bro ur telling me it wasn't a great idea to continuously expose the entire country to a virus we know destroys not only your immune system but also your lungs, heart, liver, and brain (everything!)?

    lt feels like journalistic malpractice to not fully address the idea that covid has ruined these kids' ability to fight off viruses. Like we're seeing higher numbers than prime virus season numbers... in October.

      • dat_math [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Kids’ immune systems are not affected by COVID-19 any more than any other virus

        I thought it had been well established that covid completely fucks some peoples ability to produce certain immune cells. Are you really making as strong a statement as you have worded it or am I being pedantic here?

        • TheModerateTankie [any]
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          2 years ago

          A lot of people have difficulty accepting that this isn't just another virus like any other for some reason.

          https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/04/14/sars-cov-2-actively-infects-and-kills-lymphoid-cells/?sh=4d1084ba86b8

          • emizeko [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Uncle Sam: "get me Ft. Detrick, I need them to develop turbo-flu combined with HIV. and make it extremely airborne"

        • aubergine [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Just some things this user has posted about COVID:

          • the pressure on hospitals right now has nothing, almost zero, to do with COVID
          • kids are no more effected by COVID than any other virus
          • school shutdowns during early pandemic were bad and epidemiologists were warning about effects of not having kids at schools, not of keeping them from COVID
          • nobody should get boosted unless they are old or high risk
          • COVID won't evolve to be undetectable by rapid tests
          • vaccine approval should be pulled by the FDA because the vaccines don't prevent infection
          • said they'd previously had comments about COVID removed by mods but eyes are slowly opening, even here, to the truth about the failed vaccine
          • directly told another user their booster shot was "really a gamble" and was not needed
          • has not been vaccinated
          • macabrett
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            2 years ago

            so this person is 100% not a clinical data scientist and are just trying to get people to no longer care about covid, got it

            I honestly felt bad like I was spreading misinformation when they responded to me initially. But like... I went and immediately found articles about how covid leaves your immune system devastated. Some people are going so far as to call it "HIV-lite, but airborne". Seems like something we should care about!

            first sign should have been that he thinks people were locked down for two years despite the fact that kids were back in classrooms literally a year ago and most people clearly did not give a fuck past the first few months of covid

      • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        That's pretty interesting - do you know if other countries that had better COVID-19 responses also have this spike in child respiratory viruses?

      • TheModerateTankie [any]
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        2 years ago

        RSV started recirculating in the US since the summer of 2021, and "lockdown" measures were largely abadoned or half-assed in most places since the vaccines became available.