-Unvaccinated kid’s risk is less than vax’d 30yr old
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Then-putting aside potential physical harms-its impossible to overstate the importance of children seeing their friends’ smiles, joyful engagement w one another, & degree to which recognition & expression of nonverbal communication is a critical skill for participation in society
The only people still in favor of masking kids are (i) those seeking to display moral superiority or (ii) those in deep blue metro areas that are still hiding in their apartments and have no idea kids have been blissfully interacting maskless in most of the country for months.
I’m currently in rural Colorado &, according to Twitter, the entire youth population should’ve been wiped out (along w their guardians) based on observed child mask compliance
To put into words Twitter will understand, my lived experience is that child masking is utter nonsense
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Let's take a look at a few economic charts as it relates to current policy response:
1. This is a chart of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index, designed to gauge overall US economic activity.
Imagine thinking "the virus closed the economy, not the lockdowns"
2. Nursing Employment: perhaps not what you expected?
3. Share of wealth held by the top 1% (left axis) vs bottom 50% (right axis). Typically upper income wealth drops in proximity to recession; it has exploded upward in unprecedented fashion during "the pandemic" while bottom 50% received no benefit.
This short 1948 essay excerpt from C.S. Lewis is pretty incredible. I encourage you to read it and substitute "Covid" for "atomic"/"bomb" (and the like) each place it appears.
Thread below too for those whose eyes are as bad as mine:
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"In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic
age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age...
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when raiders from Scandinavia might land & cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already
living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
In other words, do not let...
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It remains unclear to me whether there is a path forward in the big Blue cities out of Covid myopia. Most of these cities have extremely high vaccination rates--certainly anyone that wants one has received it--yet only 20-30% of workers are back in offices.
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New York City has not even recovered half of the ~1.1m jobs lost due to the lockdowns.
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Having spent time in these cities myself over last yr or having friends/family residing there, you could effectively use the below (job losses) as a ranking for Covid monomania (though I think SF worse than NY. DC is Covid crazy but of course has thrived during the madness)
Even in the Zerocovid police states of Australia& NZ, pediatricians talk more sense than those in USA regarding child Delta:
"Its important to note that many [child hospitalizations] were for social reasons..so hospitalisation statistics do not provide a good marker of severity"
We "would like to reassure children and their parents that while the COVID delta variant has shown that
children are able to be infected and transmit COVID-19, COVID-19 is and generally remains a
mild infection in children."
"children are affected by...restrictions causing impacts on education and mental health.”
"Although one death has been recorded, the child in question was a 15-year-old boy who
was being treated for pneumococcal meningitis"
When COVID hit, I began hearing rumblings of a book called Unrestricted Warfare, written by 2 former Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) senior colonels & published by PLA
In short, it describes what war will look like in a post-nuclear, mutually assured destruction, age
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I read the book cover to cover and I thought you might be interested in some quotes/passages I highlighted, which I encourage you to read w current events in mind.
“the media has become an immediate and integral part of warfare”
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“China can pump propaganda into the American media while restricting American media’s access to the Chinese media landscape”
A non-military attack could “cause the enemy nation to fall into social panic, street riots, and a political crisis”