I agree about not borrowing trouble, but I spend a lot of time around my two young grandchildren, and this makes me think things like, should I not be going to the four-year-old's birthday party next week?Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
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I agree about not borrowing trouble, but I spend a lot of time around my two young grandchildren, and this makes me think things like, should I not be going to the four-year-old's birthday party next week?Quote:
Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
Earlier in the pandemic I saw a local news story on what types of children were being hospitalized with covid. They were obese children. Tybee, if your grandchild is obese you may wish to be cautious, otherwise I would enjoy the party.
There are tiny infants being diagnosed now.
Amazing. Simply amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
If I were in your shoes I would probably do like my vaccinated coworker is doing. His frail grandmother is in the hospital. Coworker and his GF have gone back to avoiding most people as much as possible because he doesn't want to risk bringing covid to his grandmother.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
The article you posted Jane about children is very concerning. Tybee, I am not sure what I would do if I had young grandchildren.
There are always exceptions to prove the rule, but people are so afraid to be politically incorrect and talk about covid risk factors like obesity that they would rather make everyone paranoid that they could die, shut down our economy, and saddle us with a deficit we will never get out from under.
I remember clearly a customer of ours who works in a health care facility that serves all ages telling us all their covid deaths were among morbidly obese elderly patients. Look enough and you'll find some exceptions and if you're a nervous nelly you can then spend the rest of your life terrified because covid will never go away, it will just go dormant.
Around and around they go....
Watching the news now. 400 children in the US have died from covid. In a given flu season between 34 and 200 children die of the flu. So covid, which has been around two winters aka flu seasons, has the death toll of two back to back bad flu seasons. 200 + 200 = 400. No mortality difference between the flu and covid in children.
The way I see it there are a lot of unknowns, do vaccinated people transmit much, we really don't know. I'd guess probably not but we don't know, sometimes they do. Are children at greater risk of Delta than say Alpha, well I certainly don't know.
Although in yeppej's view it's all some Calvanist morality tale, because some 3rd hand information that happens to back her conclusions from 8 months ago.
I mean it's definitely not ALL elderly people, come on, anyone watching any data and I periodically look at local data, would NEVER conclude that. But someone somewhere said so ...
I'm not saying it's a lot of kids either, it's not mostly.
I'm not stressing the pandemic that much right now, but I'm not knowingly interacting with unvaccinated people either (that includes kids of course).