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Re:The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning' by codefreakxff on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:13AM (#29819710)
Science does not say kids are barely affected by Covid... that would be the right wing media and politicians.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

Closely related: Floria wants to stop Covid testing so that their reported infection rates will drop.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-surgeon-general-signals...

Re:The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning' by nradov on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:20AM (#29819755)
A large study of children in Germany found zero deaths of children aged 5-11 without comorbidities.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v...

Re:The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning' by codefreakxff on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:39AM (#29819897)
There is a lot of area between "barely affected" and "dying".

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-warning-sym...

Re:The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning' by gandalfgeek on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:12AM (#29820078)
This is an out of context mischaracterization.

For age < 18, kids are 3-5x more likely to die of activities such as riding in a car and going to the pool (not to mention the good ol' flu). Virtually nobody even thinks about behavior adjustments when it comes to those activities.

You're needlessly trolling when you're labeling parents and kids speaking up against all this as right wing.

Re:The cruel, ridiculous reality of 'virtual learning' by codefreakxff on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:50AM (#29820609)
I’m not trolling. I’ve linked to facts. If you think the CDC and Surgeon General are not facts then you, sir, are trolling

Why does everyone say it’s fine for kids to get Covid because they are not dying? Again, you are trolling.

Hospitalization rates are way up with Omicron. And only reason it looked like kids were less affected by Covid was because there was a lack of testing for kids and schools were initially closed. Schools are open and infection rates are same as adults. Sure. They aren’t dying as much because adults are generally way less healthy. But they are not magically immune and we can pretend there is nothing to be concerned about

Edit: confirmed. I looked at your comment history and you seem to love trolling and posting snarky things