Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than Work and Paying Bills

Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by jacquesm on Thursday August 13, 2020 @04:55PM (#24148966)

Just to give you one possible side effect: sterility. There are plenty of viruses that when caught as a child do not give much in terms of symptoms but will make you sterile for life. That's not something that will come out in the next two months.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by renewiltord on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:22PM (#24149442)

True, and whether MMR 2 will kill you or your mind in 60 years isn't something that comes out in 42 years. We don't know that yet.

But if I had to guess, you're probably pro-MMR-2 (as am I), so the question is what epistemology permits that view?

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by jacquesm on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:30PM (#24149568)

It could, but we have a lot of data on those diseases and typically a weakened or reduced dose live virus shot has a known outcome with some outliers where the shot leads to the disease or something worse in the relatively short term.

For COVID-19 we are still guessing at most of this, hopefully the long term effects are not too bad and those effects of contracting the disease will get reduced over time.

But I would definitely not rule out some shocker long term effect at this stage that we are unaware of, especially not when taking into account developing organisms such as children, where effects can stay hidden for a long time.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by renewiltord on Thursday August 13, 2020 @05:38PM (#24149689)

I think we're close to agreement, but not quite. We're not, after all, guessing at most. For instance, it's pretty unlikely that COVID-19 will cause you to grow three extra feet from your nose within the next 60 years.

There are some things we don't have high certainty on, but our epistemology would be faulty if we ignored how other coronaviruses behave, just like it would be faulty if we ignored how other attenuated viruses behave when we examine if MMR-2 will cause instadeath at age 60.

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Re:Parents are 5X as Worried about Infection and School than... by jacquesm on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:13PM (#24150873)

But there are quite a few examples of some pretty nasty effects that only show up when a person reaches maturity. So better to take this the slow and the sure way, more evidence is better.

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