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Sep 3, 2021, 5 tweets

~58,000 children aged 0-5 are hospitalized with RSV annually in the United States.¹

~14,210 children aged 0-4 have been hospitalized with covid during the entirety of the pandemic thus far.²

We have to acknowledge how salience and novelty, our media, the political outrage economy, and other dynamics are impacting how we’re processing risk and how we’re generally responding to this stuff, psychologically and socially. At least with regard to very young children.

Bruce Schneier, the privacy and security guru who has long written about “security theater” and how we process new and irregular threats, has a good, short piece on this. It’s worth reading in full:

schneier.com/blog/archives/…

Pre-2020, were two year olds required to wear masks all day in licensed group care to protect themselves from RSV? Should they have been?

[Monkey’s paw curls]

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