You are beating them at their own Single-Metric approach to Covid. Well done.
But public health and individual health are more than just one metric. Physical Health, Emotional Health, and many areas of Development have been damaged by 13 months of closures, blame and shame.
Never a cost-benefit analysis. Always focusing on the Boomers over Gen Z.
Fabulous analysis as always. Out of the many, many evils deliberately done through these insane lockdowns, the harm done to children and care home residents (still being treated worse in the UK than prison inmates) are immeasurable and truly wicked.
“teachers fared worse by far in places with full remote learning. this result is a striking outlier and i lack a great explanation given how widely it diverges from community infection. this warrants further work.”
I’d love to see more discussion and consideration of whether exposure to low level viral loads as in asymptomatic individuals (such as kids and other young and healthy individuals) confers some degree of immunity in close contacts (such as family, friends and teachers). There’s been a few studies recently published, but as early as last summer there were reports of family clusters questioning the possibility of a protective effect of children with their high level of HCoV cross-immunity as possibly mitigating disease burden in family contacts. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22036-z
The authors state the following:
“Importantly, our discovery of the presence of significant levels of SARS-CoV-2-specific memory T-cell immunity in a group of individuals (close contacts) who were exposed to but not infected by the virus highlights some unique characteristics in the dynamic interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and its human host“
It seems possible that our normal human interactions provide for a cycle of immunity and cross-immunity against pathogens, including HCoVs that when suddenly disrupted could have negative impacts that our interventions during this pandemic may be providing an opportunity to better understand that we, humans, need germs and kids to maintain our immune health.
it seems a reasonable supposition and makes mechanistic sense. it is, alas, a very difficult thing to study and control for in any sort of group or subset analysis. like you, i suspect there is some real merit to the idea, but studying it in any real sense is difficult.
Add to this that asymptomatic spread...the justification for the lockdowns, school closures, and masks...is not a real risk. I know you know this, but it bears repeating.
Kids don't have much risk from this virus. Kids don't transmit this virus to each other or adults.
And yet they are testing their experimental genetic therapies on children and will soon be pushing for an EUA in the US. Pfizer and Moderna are already pushing the Europeans Medicines Agency for authorization for 12-15 year olds.
This is a violation of the Nuremberg Code and international law.
I've heard Reiner Fuellmich say that we can't worry about those who've drunk long and hard of the koolaid, those who refuse to wake up.
We can't let this happen to children. We have to speak up.
You are beating them at their own Single-Metric approach to Covid. Well done.
But public health and individual health are more than just one metric. Physical Health, Emotional Health, and many areas of Development have been damaged by 13 months of closures, blame and shame.
Never a cost-benefit analysis. Always focusing on the Boomers over Gen Z.
This was easy. This was a layup.
Fabulous analysis as always. Out of the many, many evils deliberately done through these insane lockdowns, the harm done to children and care home residents (still being treated worse in the UK than prison inmates) are immeasurable and truly wicked.
Great info, wish people would actually listen to reason
My gut says teacher's unions are not huge fans of either data analysis or cost-benefit, but I am probably too strident.
“teachers fared worse by far in places with full remote learning. this result is a striking outlier and i lack a great explanation given how widely it diverges from community infection. this warrants further work.”
I’d love to see more discussion and consideration of whether exposure to low level viral loads as in asymptomatic individuals (such as kids and other young and healthy individuals) confers some degree of immunity in close contacts (such as family, friends and teachers). There’s been a few studies recently published, but as early as last summer there were reports of family clusters questioning the possibility of a protective effect of children with their high level of HCoV cross-immunity as possibly mitigating disease burden in family contacts. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22036-z
The authors state the following:
“Importantly, our discovery of the presence of significant levels of SARS-CoV-2-specific memory T-cell immunity in a group of individuals (close contacts) who were exposed to but not infected by the virus highlights some unique characteristics in the dynamic interactions between SARS-CoV-2 and its human host“
It seems possible that our normal human interactions provide for a cycle of immunity and cross-immunity against pathogens, including HCoVs that when suddenly disrupted could have negative impacts that our interventions during this pandemic may be providing an opportunity to better understand that we, humans, need germs and kids to maintain our immune health.
it seems a reasonable supposition and makes mechanistic sense. it is, alas, a very difficult thing to study and control for in any sort of group or subset analysis. like you, i suspect there is some real merit to the idea, but studying it in any real sense is difficult.
Add to this that asymptomatic spread...the justification for the lockdowns, school closures, and masks...is not a real risk. I know you know this, but it bears repeating.
Kids don't have much risk from this virus. Kids don't transmit this virus to each other or adults.
And yet they are testing their experimental genetic therapies on children and will soon be pushing for an EUA in the US. Pfizer and Moderna are already pushing the Europeans Medicines Agency for authorization for 12-15 year olds.
This is a violation of the Nuremberg Code and international law.
I've heard Reiner Fuellmich say that we can't worry about those who've drunk long and hard of the koolaid, those who refuse to wake up.
We can't let this happen to children. We have to speak up.
I never thought that parents would sacrifice their children to the covid madness, but here we are.
I have a feeling the generation going through the school system now will be the most libertarian generation in a long while.