The article in The Atlantic, "The Harms of Masking Young Students are Real" should make us all think deeply about the propaganda we are bombarded with daily and how little its manufacturers think of us and our health and safety.
They want infection in an unvaccinated population.
The Author, Vinay Prasad, argued against vaccination of the youth, and now this. He may truly believe, "no publicity is bad publicity."
When we pair these proposals, we see the Atlantic is platforming-arguing for- the institutionalized infection of America's youth.
Why?
It boils down to soft eugenics
Children and families with inborn errors of interferon will fare badly and assuredly, the common and low SES households will never know if they have such errors
These people are marginalized
Not to mention youth POC are mostly the ones dying
Delta has changed the game. I used to think a 70% community vaccination level would be sufficient to protect children in schools without their vaccination
Onward transmission of Delta among vaccinated in Israel caused infection of the youth. nature.com/articles/d4158…
Therefore, these calculations and practices must be reassessed. Reasonably, Israel is moving to vaccinate their youth. Ignoring this changed metric comes at the cost of more confusion. reuters.com/world/middle-e…
So: 1) via breakthrough, Delta has upset the argument youth are protected by adult vaccination 2) Onward transmission is indubitably more frequent 3) Physiological consequences of breakthrough infection by Delta have yet to be assessed. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…