PhineasC

It seems like at least half the time someone delivers food to the house, it’s someone aged 50 and up. That strikes me as a sign of a bad economy and a bad sign for the future. That’s a job for 16 year olds...

For young people who had very mild illness, I agree.

More doctors should be telling people this and allowing them to make an informed decision if they already had COVID.

Good news for those who already had it and another reason why vaccinating those who already had COVID is counterproductive and opens them up to miserable side effects for no gain.

I think people don't appreciate the mimicry of adults that kids do, good and bad. They pick up so many habits and quirks by watching the adults around them. It's really important to raise them in a good environment. It's also why a good teacher is sometimes the last line of defense for a kid from a bad home. That's his/her last good role model to emulate.

I don't disagree with any of this. We are very glad we were able to homeschool. It really worked well for us. The transformation in my kids this year was amazing. They are all so much more outgoing now. It's definitely the opposite of the conventional wisdom around homeschooling, wherein people assume it leads to emotionally-stunted, shut-in kids. We have seen the exact opposite, actually. Some of this may just be perceived because other kids have become more withdrawn and cautious, hard to say. But my kids happily run up to everyone they meet, extend their hands, and introduce themselves. LOL

Many of the deaths were very old and very sick people in LTC facilities. I know people get upset by this line of thought, but how many of the excess deaths in 2020 were people who would have died within 12-16 months anyway? COVID simply accelerated these deaths by some months and bunched them up, creating a spike in the data. This is also even harder to think about when you figure many of these people who were destined to die soon had to spend the last year of life separated from their families in isolation. I think this is the biggest difference between COVID and the flu epidemics. The flu kills healthy young people at a much higher rate than COVID. You can't simply compare the raw death totals and draw conclusions about the impact of COVID to make policy decisions.

Kids are amazing like that. Back in February, my 7 year old daughter had 100 degree fever and complained of a headache. After skiing that afternoon, she collapsed on the couch and slept for like 3 hours; basically in a coma. When she woke up the fever was gone and she went outside to go sledding. LOL the power of a youthful immune system right there. It may have been COVID for all we know. Never got her tested.

Yet people wonder how Millennials ended up the way they are?

My kids' old school was doing the whole nine yards. Bubbles drawn on the ground for each kid to sit in at recess, no balls or other play equipment, playground shut down. Same desk all day, can't get up except for two bathroom breaks one at a time. Laptop on, Zoom lesson all day with the teacher at home. Zero exception mask policy. In the second grade class, at least, the rule was you couldn't even turn your head to look behind you... It was so dumb and harmful. We have been back to the school recently for a church function and there are still signs everywhere telling the kids to keep away from each other ("for their safety and the safety of others") along with arrows and bubbles on the floors. It's all pretty gross, IMO. The total opposite of what you want to be teaching kids to make them sociable and well-adjusted. I have definitely noticed a few of the kids my sons were friendly with have really changed over the last year. They have these crazy outbursts now, kinda destructive really, when they are finally let out of school and allowed to come over to use our pool or watch a movie. We let them take off the masks and they kind of go wild. They never used to be like that. Keeping kids rigidly boxed-in for 8-9 hours each day chained to a single desk is not good for them, IMO.

LOL yes. This is like asking a dermatologist if it will ever be OK to sit outside in the sun without sunscreen on. He is going to say, "I don't recommend sitting outside without at least SPF 50 sunblock (applied every 30 minutes), long sleeves and long pants, a wide-brimmed hat, and keeping your time outside limited to 45 minutes or less".

LOL

I don't think he is a grifter or anything like that. I'm sure he's a great scientist. But he is not an economist, psychiatrist, ethicist, childhood education expert, lawyer, or politician. Yet, people keep asking him questions from those domains and then he answers...

I think the biggest issue is at least back then most of those kids went to school and saw how other kids lived. Now they have been kept inside for over a year on Zoom school in some cases. And some schools have also been like little mini-jails. Kids can't even talk to their friends. So that just adds to the shut-in misery of these kids. But yeah, crazy neurotic overprotective parents have existed for a while now, it really became a major fad in the 1990s.

He's also saying we might not get back to normal until next Mother's Day and we may need to always wear masks to combat the flu. He keeps going on the talk shows and answering dumb hypothetical questions. He needs to stop.

Fauci needs to stop talking.

Bad for the shareholders.

Yep, agreed.

No doubt, but the vaccine also kills people (in small numbers). I don’t think the rationale for vaccinating kids is really there right now.

I’m more worried about my kids choking on a nugget from McDonalds or getting severely dehydrated from diarrhea than them getting COVID. The data is super firm that COVID is very low risk for kids.

Are you concerned that the vaccine is less effective than advertised? Or something else? Other than masks, I don't see why a vaccinated person would need to ever think about COVID, much less be concerned over it.

Suicide is a lagging indicator, things like this come first: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/depression-pandemic-adults-ons-b1842382.html

Just anecdotally, I don't know anyone who has gotten COVID in a quite a while now. There was a period in late winter where it did seem to spike and every day I was hearing of someone we know who tested positive, but once March hit and people really started getting vax appointments it dropped off a cliff. Again, just anecdotal. Also, no one I know talks about getting tested anymore. So that alone should cause case counts to drop.

Get out more? I travel up and down the East Coast and have been doing so without a break since the start of the pandemic. You won't even eat out yet and brag about it... no one is shocked that you haven't met anyone "like that" yet. We know...

You don't run into these people if you are one of these people...