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Originally Posted by Bill14564
From the "...Kids Were Safe..." article:
Which means that while more cases are likely and some amount of hospitalization and death, as well, vaccines have eliminated the overwhelming share of American mortality risk, with the disease now circulating almost exclusively among people who can endure it much, much better — kids especially.
I wonder if the current 140,000+ new cases per day, 1,800+ deaths per day, and 96,700 currently hospitalized are what the authors envisioned when they wrote that paragraph? |
The article was written July 12, before we knew that the vaccines were really losing efficacy,
I can pull up some nice quotes from Fauci from a few months ago saying we won't be seeing dramatic surges this fall if you like.
Anyway, the article was about kids, and this thread is about mandating masks.
There's been 4.8 million cases in kids 0 to 17, 439 have died, most of which had existing health problems. A twelve year old is 10,000 times less likely to die from covid as a 75 year old is. Masks will do nothing, we need boosters and soon or its not going to be a fun winter.