More evidence of propaganda, scare tactics, and gaslighting from the left...

The Risk to Kids From COVID Is Miniscule. Do Not Let Them Mandate Vaccines | Opinion

I remember quite clearly the first time I explained what COVID was to my young children in early March of 2020. I lay down in one of their beds at bedtime and told them about what it was and how it might affect our lives for the next few weeks or perhaps even the next month or two (oh, how naive I was then!). I reassured them about their safety and ours, and pulled up a chart from China and Italy about the death rates broken down by age. I explained to them the nature of the virus, that it thankfully spared children of their age, and almost everyone under the age of 40. I comforted them that their grandparents and great-grandmother would exercise caution due to their increased risk, but thankfully, everyone their parents' age and down, but kids especially, were statistically quite safe from ill-effects, even if they were to get sick.

Nearly two years later, the data has continued to bear this out. As the New York Times' David Leonhardt pointed out this week, an unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old—even a vaccinated 40-year-old, according to a British study. Indeed, the realization that COVID infection carries different risks depending on age is a well-known fact internationally. The risks for kids "are similar to the other respiratory viruses you probably don't think much about," Alasdair Munro, a Clinical Research Fellow Paediatric Infectious Diseases with NIH in the United Kingdom, explained on Twitter. In fact, for children pre-school age and under, viruses like RSV are much more likely to result in hospitalization than COVID.

No doubt about it. We have a divided nation. Divided between those willing to follow the science and those ignoring the science in favor of fear and paranoia. The interesting thing here is that as a general rule, it's the liberals who are following what Europe and other countries are trying to do, while the conservatives want to march to their own drum of independence. But in the case of Covid, it is the liberals in the United State basically arguing with not just conservatives, but also with the billions and billions of people who see it the same way as conservatives do here. 

There flat out is no science that suggests that children benefit from the same covid restrictions as adults. Fake social media rumors of children overwhelming hospitals aside, the real statistics show that only about 500 children nationally have died from Covid since the beginning of the pandemic. Over twice as many children have died from pneumonia during that same time period.  Moreover, this has not (as some are suggesting) gotten dramatically worse in recent months.  

From a technical mathematical standpoint, the natural immunity to Covid from children under the age of 17 is somewhere around 99%. The natural immunity from death for children under 17 can be effectively rounded to 100%. 

Meanwhile, evidence continues to unfold in regards to the harm distance learning and even mask wearing is doing to children, especially those under the age of 12. We have children missing out on learning opportunities. We have children losing out on social development. We have children not able to bond with other children because they cannot see faces, expressions, or watch people talk. In some cases children are more likely to identify someone by the color or their mask than the make up of their face. 

Yet, here we are... with zero science to back it... seeing liberals all across the country demanding that we now have kids vaccinated, when there seems to be no reason for it and all sorts of potential issues with the vaccines. They have only recently been approved (grudedly) for children 13-17 and are still not approved for children under 12. We have no idea what the long term effects of this vaccine is and we know that there is almost nothing it can provide to children who are next to 100% safe from it.

Liberals are looking at harming our children out of fear, scare tactics and gaslighting.