Kentucky school districts cancel classes less than 2 weeks into school year due to Covid-19, viruses

Good for you! Now have you equal concern about RHD and Strep? Ooops! Posssibly not - it mostly affects kids in socio-economically disadvantaged areas. Not somewhere that is high on a GOP radar

 

no vaccination against flu doesn't prevent it. more likely isolating people from one another prevented them from being in contact with illnesses. the panic regarding the cold is profoundly stupid.

 

I got 2 variants of covid. i know people in their 80s or people with stage four lung cancer might die from it. they could die from any cold

 

the Trump task force would not lie to us...

 

So? Anecdotal evidence is worthless. As I said I would be more concerned about the Strep

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/strep-throat/symptoms-causes/syc-20350338

 

There is concern for any viral infection. they can cause people with frail health issues. vaccines as we learned don't prevent spread. it just gives immune systems ability to fight it off. it doesn't make it less contagious. for a viral infection like flu or covid that mutate quickly because of their contagiousness they adapt very quickly to antibodies. So, vaccination is really to protect people with frail health. Otherwise, healthy people do not benefit from vaccination to such illnesses and people with frail health don't benefit from such people being vaccinated as they can still be infected and contagious.

 

Then do it. Without a link that won't work.

 

Ok - but you have already rejected one lot of statistics- without review so I will give you ONE chance to look at other data. I don’t play the “let’s waste other people’s time” game that seems to be the point of this endless denial

https://www.bmj.com/company/newsroo...om-covid-19-in-better-vaccinated-communities/
Oh! And BTW the rest of the world thanks the USA for being such a perfect laboratory for this study

 

Strep is not a viral infection

((((Sigh)))). I don’t mind educating people I really don’t but why do they have to try and pretend that they know more than experts?

 

coincidence is not the same as causation.

 

Only if it is unquestionable and is not promoting vaccines

 

Sure, I can.

This from Canada...




15% of the people are completely unvaccinated and they do 48% of the dying.

 

You forgot “necessarily”. Correlation does not necessarily equal causation. This was a large population sampling

so the variables that are normally the issue with associating correlations to causation will have been negated by that broad sampling in a largely homogeneous population. The research is published in the BMJ - one of the more prestigious medical magazines in the world which has a very rigorous peer review process.
I knew you would dismiss research out of hand which is why you got only ONE paper

 

Ahhhhh! So any research showing a protective effect from vaccines can be dismissed out of hand? Read my signature - this is why I have one

 

You people ignore the obvious. That a person who bothers to get vaccinated is more likely to take care of their health in a host of other ways.

 

I am not sure why you are talking about strep. the thread is about covid.

 

Go back to the OP

I posted about how Strep can be more dangerous than COVID for kids

 

And this is based on…..

 

Yes, your need to reply and tell Durandal how little you care about what he thinks, makes that quite clear.

 

I saw it in the linked article. didn't notice before.

yeah strep infections are way more dangerous to a child than a cold.

 

Yes because of RHD for one but do not underestimate how dangerous RSV can be - especially to babies. A “snotty nose” is not an issue if you are over 6 months old (well, apart from making the kid look like a glazed donut) but under 6 months they struggle to breathe because for a baby the nose is for breathing and the mouth is for sucking. Often the kid has to be admitted to hospital to be tube fed if they are really blocked up

 

yeah everything is more serious with an infant.

 

And think - this was a school. Kids often have siblings. A cold that would not affect you or me can land the baby in hospital

 

So why ever return to school? When you do after a summer break everyone shares illnesses. life is risky and you can't lock down permanently because people get sick and possibly even die.

 

logic and common sense