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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:56PM (#29983966)
RSV isn't currently killing ~1800k Americans a day.
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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:09PM (#29984148)
RSV has no vaccine unlike Covid 19. If people do not want to get vaccinated, then that is their problem.

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination

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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by thebean11 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:19PM (#29984303)
From that link, like 1 in 10 people dying are vaccinated. And even ignoring that, I will still personally choose to stay home when infected with covid even if it only helps the unvaccinated.
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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:29PM (#29984454)
There's no approved vaccine yet for the daycare-aged population being discussed.
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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:09PM (#29984992)
The daycare age population are not the ones dying. Point being that yes, COVID 19 is resulting in more deaths than RSV nationwide, but as a vaccinated individual, I am more concerned about RSV (one of my kids has already got it), than I am from COVID 19.
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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only) by ceejayoz on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:44PM (#29985469)
> The daycare age population are not the ones dying.

Which, if daycares were run by the toddlers independently of adult supervision, would be a great point.

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