Just had lunch. A teenager took my order. Only employee wearing a mask. As I try to do on occasion I offer the person the chance yo pull their mask down if they are comfortable. Literally said he’s too scared to do it. He’s 17 and triple vaccinated.
Child maskers did this to him
Whatever you think of masks or whatever you think of vaccines…if you have teenagers too afraid to go maskless after being vaccinated, we have failed as a society. The lies, exaggerations, manipulations and mixed messaging has created irrational fear among people that are safe.
Notice how people are misrepresenting what I was doing here? I didn't criticize the kid or judge him. I feel bad for him. The same people that are defending this are the demented child maskers that wanted to do this to kids. Their rationalizing this gives them away.
It's sick.
If you think it's OK that we have made kids too scared to take off a mask in public, you are part of the problem.
It's not OK. This is not OK.
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Today @GovRonDeSantis says he hopes if the Florida legislature goes down the road of penalizing renegade districts that flaunted statewide masking rules against forced masking, that they will allow retroactive right of action for harmed families by not allowing opt-outs.
The Governor says he believes this would be preferable to potentially harming children with reduced funding.
To be more clear, the Governor prefers right of action by harmed families to the districts and boards that went against the law instead of or rather than outright fines of the districts assessed by the state.
The World Health Organization recommends a cautious approach to masking kids ages 6-11 and advises against masking 5 and under for any circumstance. Most of the world follows this advice, except our CDC which shamelessly advises masking 2+.
Here are school masking ages in Europe
This work was my own research where policies were publicly reported. Some may have changed. Where U.S. schools often take a one size fits all approach, we are an exception. More countries do not default to masking kids in classroom settings in primary schools.
While the CDC and many local jurisdictions have toddlers and preschool children masking, most of the sane world follows the WHO advice of not masking younger kids and has varying policies of primary school kids ages 6-11.
The media would have you believe the U.S. policy is rule
"We have made huge strides in effectively monitoring this virus," says @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky.
There you have it. She's planting the seed for science changing. She's now discussing Wastewater surveillance as if that's a new technology. She says they'll ramp it up.
Using wastewater surveillance for monitoring spread is a great idea. They could have and should have been utilizing it a year ago.
So from the sound of this briefing, they aren't making any new changes but Walensky is definitely hinting at laying the groundwork. She says they'll move to the next phase through improved 'surveillance' after spending 5 mins talking about all the great 'new' techniques they have
A tale of two graphs: one is the CDC that shows 68x chances of dying overall for fully unvaccinated in Nov. compared to people with 3+ doses. UKHSA, meanwhile, shows between 3x-11x difference for deaths within 28d of + test for last 4 weeks based on age group.
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CDC disclaimer: an "unvaccinated person" includes anyone that "has not been verified to have received a COVID-19 vaccine."
UKHSA disclaimer, meanwhile, counts only those with a record of vaccination status and includes data from the same source for both numerator and denominator
UK's data is far more reliable because they make this important adjustment.
The idea that omicron is much more mild is no longer in question. The evidence has been overwhelming showing 70-90% reduction in severe illness and mortality.
Through Dec. 31, UKHSA had recorded just 75 deaths among 212,019 omicron cases (0.04% fatality rate). They have since discontinued omicron surveillance.