Thread by @EmpireinWinter

Interestingly, one could agree w/ @iwelsh's takeaways here, yet argue for them from an interpretation of the data sharply divergent from his. Such is the data fog & semiotic pollution surrounding the pandemic as field of information warfare.
ianwelsh.net/again-on-omicr…

1st the takeaways:
'Your leaders kill, cripple, hurt and impoverish you for money. They’re doing it to your children now.

Is there anything they can and will do that will cause revolution?'

'Because removing them, en-masse, and trying them for their crimes is the only thing that will ever make the world better, or give you even the faintest chance of dealing with climate change and environmental collapse in a humane manner.'

'Covid has been a practice run for when climate change starts really hitting. It shows which societies are able to respond to a collective challenge.'

'Most of our societies have failed and because climate change, like Covid, is a world problem, that a few societies haven’t failed is unlikely to matter much, even to them. They’ll just stay together under pressure longer than we will.'

On our long-established willingness to let masses of kids die preventable deaths we have the 300,000 kids / yr whose dehydration deaths could be prevented by administration of oral rehydration solution at 5 cents / dose....
thinkglobalhealth.org/article/attain…

Re: COVID, we have people who've never seemed to give a shit about children's physical or mental health joining those who always have cared, in opposition to or support of lockdowns, school closures, mask wearing, vaccination....

When no vaxx were available for kids, our media obligingly stenographed public-health officials telling us schools were islands of non-transmission of COVID, & kids were at little risk; now w/ vaxx approved, media warns our paeds wards are filling, & school vaxx must be mandated.

Similarly w/ vaccines themselves, we went from vaxx kids even tho they're at little risk--where's the harm?--to acknowledgment of adverse events (myocarditis) shifting the risk:benefit decision--but now Omicron is of great risk to kids, shifting the calculus back to vaxx.

So let's go back to basics.
The preventable death of one child is obscenely too many.

The impossibility of preventing every preventable death has somehow been transmuted into an actuarial free pass to support one's preferred course of action...