"He was cared for at home by his father for his first eighteen months, so he avoided the usual viral infections of infancy. When he started day care this year, his immune system was fairly naïve to infections, except for those covered by his vaccines. So, like many kids his age... he is getting all of them now. Before covid, the cohort of kids under age one would be exposed for the first time each winter. This year, a much larger cohort of kids—not just kids in the first winter of life but also older toddlers like Sam—are getting their first infections. For the millions of children whose important kid work—learning, development, and play—is being interrupted by back-to-back infections, the medical response feels terrifically inadequate...."
From "The Post-COVID 'Immunity Gap' Continues to Pummel Pediatric Wards/While hospitals struggle to find room for young patients, parents have few options for O.T.C. medicines to soothe their sick children" (The New Yorker).
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The saddest thing that has happened in the last two years is what was done to children for the comfort and self-preservation of adults. And much of it was nothing more than politics and career protection.
The push for child mRNA shots is an entirely different level of screwed up. What type of adults make kids suffer for their own self-preservation? Who uses a kid as a medical guinea pig?
That is now our country and society. Nobody is more guilty of pushing this abuse and neglect than the liberal education establishment.
Wow no shit. Shame no one predicted this starting in March 2020. Maybe some of you can remember. Maybe it'll stir your memory if I share the phrases 'freedumb,' 'covidiots,' 'grandma killers,' 'science deniers.'
We were right, you were wrong, and I personally will never ever forgive you for the harm your stupidity, arrogance and spite caused for everyone else.
For the millions of children whose important kid work—learning, development, and play—is being interrupted by back-to-back infections
You have to be fucking kidding me. These goddamn people.
First world problems to fill a news desert.
Also, a larger cohort of young parents who are not used to having sick kids. The outpatient offices are getting pummeled, too, with visits and phone calls.
So a political response to a medical issue yields less than desirable outcomes?
Who could have seen *that* coming?
The higher flu and cold rates are also causing shortages of pediatric medicines- amoxicillin for ear infections and Tamils for the flu.
My kids are 10 and 7, and our family (not just kids but parents too) has run the gauntlet of illnesses over the past six weeks. COVID, flu, and various unspecified viral infections. Happily none have been too serious. Interestingly, the one with COVID did not pass it to any of the rest of us.
This simply cannot be. Saint Anthony would have warned us!
A couple months ago, when certain anti-establishment voices were blaming the rise in pediatric hospitalizations on the public health leaders and the American academy of pediatrics because of their pro-lockdown stance, arguing precisely the above point about immunity, the response from the media was an all-out gaslighting. Article after article interviewing “experts” saying there’s no such thing as immunity gap, it’s a conspiracy theory, etc, etc. now that it’s undeniable, reality once again catches up to conspiracy. Glad to see the New Yorker cover it.
Bottom line, as my blog’s motto so eloquently puts it: AAP delenda est.
https://gaty.substack.com/
When I was a kid, mother's would organize measles, and pox parties. The message was "Get over it kid".
The masking and isolation of children will leave scars for years. Maybe into adulthood.
There was a reason that mothers took toddlers to "chickenpox parties." My wife had chicken pox at age 16 and nearly died. Aside from these immediate consequences, we don't know what the long term effects might be.
Anyone who has seen the grainy videos of Dr. George Carlin's Olde Time Traveling Medicine Show on strengthening your immune system would be unsurprised by this development.
Ignorance can be cured, but in the case of progressives stupid is forever.
The rise--and subsequent fall of polio in the USA from say 1910 to the early 1950s and the arrival of successful polio vaccines offers a lesson.
The "bad kind" of polio---paralysis, the need for an iron lung, and such is in some ways a disease of cleanliness. The polio virus exists in the gut of nearly everyone. Until water and sewer sanitation systems improved in cities most children had a mild attack of polio while they were five years old--or younger. But if one hadn't had such an attack until they reached pubescence or young adulthood then the onset of poliomyelitis had severe consequences. FDR was a young adult when polio attacked him--and his legs were paralyzed.
After 1910 or so mothers were terrified when the summer came and their children wanted to go to community swimming pools--a likely place for infection. I knew two men who had contracted polio while attending college football games in the early 1950s.
Now I'm not against public sanitation--but actions, events, and lockdowns have multiple unintended (I'm being charitable here to the power made progressive elites of the country) consequences. I agree with Michael K that the masking and isolation of children will leave scars for years.
Omg. Misinformation galore in The New Yorker.
The New Yorker is peddling conspiracy theories.
Thanks Planned-Demic elites.
Tamiflu, not Tamils.
Sydney said...
The higher flu and cold rates are also causing shortages of pediatric medicines- amoxicillin for ear infections and Tamils for the flu.
Maybe they could borrow some Tamils from South India. Our Vice-President - while containing some dilutions - is also available,
Gusty said -
"The push for child mRNA shots is an entirely different level of screwed up. What type of adults make kids suffer for their own self-preservation? Who uses a kid as a medical guinea pig?"
Greedy Soviet Chi-Com Fauci Gain of Funciton KGB-FBI bastards- also called powerful elite democrats.... with pockets to fill and masses to control....
Birx smirx.
How does isolating kids and thereby blocking natural immunity differ from pediatric anti-vaxxing?
The effects of Covid cruelty will linger. Policy was always disproportionate, as was pointed in 2020. Authoritarian prog control was medically pointless and unjust from the start. The mark of prog hegemony is that no one will be held accountable.
Thank God for Elon Musk. He is bravely calling out Fauci’s funding of “Gain of Function” research for EXACTLY what it is. Bio-weapon development.
It’s mad scientist bullshit. The ethical question regarding it is not “can we” but “should we”. No, you shouldn’t. But Fauci did. And then lied, and lied, and lied…
What is the benefit to mankind to take a dangerous virus that cannot naturally transfer from and animal species to humans and make it transferable? Anybody? Bueller???
The CDC and the Democrats will never admit that this is just one of the kind of trade-off that the extended lockdowns predictably have. (Like 2 years of remote schooling for inner city kids.) We don't even know how much long-term damage to immune systems of infants from the extended isolation in the first 3 years of their lives has had. But it's all good as afar as the Big Pharma and Big Healthcare is concerned. Vaccinations for every season forever. I'm sure anyone predicting this on Twitter or Facebook in 2020 would've been banned.
Thank you Dr. Fauci.
"For the millions of children whose important kid work—learning, development, and play—is being interrupted by back-to-back infections ..."
What their important kid work is being interrupted by is day care. AKA, feminism.
This is WHY, it is SO IMPORTANT; that we Keep Masking, and Keep Social Distancing..
How ELSE, can we Kill Our Children?
Remember when they were asking for amnesty from all this nonsense before the election? Yet they persist.
Vaccine-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (VAIDS) is a known, forward-looking side-effect of the non-sterilizing, viral-vector treatments.
What type of adults make kids suffer for their own self-preservation? Who uses a kid as a medical guinea pig?
Self-preservation. Self-affirmation. Levine, for one.
Measles parties are probably a bad idea. Measles is a very very bad disease. Probably chickenpox parties. Chickenpox is generally a benign disease for young people.
The ripples from the lockdown will go on for a long time.
Kids these days...
We were right, you were wrong, and I personally will never ever forgive you for the harm your stupidity, arrogance and spite caused for everyone else.
Bears repeating.
There was a reason that mothers took toddlers to "chickenpox parties."
The young cohorts were infected, developed a mild disease, and recovered quickly with durable and robust immunity. Something similar was observed with polio.
Gusty and Misplaced Pants:
Thanks for getting this started on the right foot!
Another conspiracy theory is being revealed as truth by the mainstream media.
By next year, they will be telling us the m-RNA vaccines are killing people.
So this outcome was predicted by world renown experts but squashed by our fascist government. When does the tar and feathering start?
Isolation at any age causes reduced immunity. 6 months of isolation can reduce immune system response by 50%. We need to be constantly exposed to the various things floating around the human community to keep our immune systems strong.
Re masks-
I remain convinced that re-breathing viruses and bacteria that all of us exhale is a very very bad idea. To the extent that a mask works, it traps microorganisms that otherwise would drift down to the ground and become nonviable. Inhaling them on the next breath gives them a new chance to infect the mask wearer. We developed the cough and sneeze response for a reason. It's common sense not to cough or sneeze such that the products can be inhaled by another person, but other than that, it's best to get that bad stuff away.
The only reason that we survive is that the mask does not work and most of the exhaled bad bugs are not trapped.
That means that the masks don't prevent infections, but they are still effective in limiting communication and retarding growth and development in children.
The article is a collection of anecdotes by a journalist. While I find the premise credible and predictable, I'd be interested in seeing a real study of this broken out by state.
The harm to kids? LOL The left, and especially the teachers unions, would put kids through wood chippers to advance their cause. They don't care.
The hivemind are obsessed with covid boosters.
You can take your booster and stick it where the sun don't shine.
The ripples from the lockdown will go on for a long time.
Not just the mandates. The non-sterilizing treatments are known to produce antigenic tolerance. The people who acquired natural immunity should be safe. The vaccinated are probably not. The vulnerable will be exposed on a forward-looking basis without knowledge.
This is WHY, it is SO IMPORTANT; that we Keep Masking, and Keep Social Distancing..
How ELSE, can we Kill Our Children?
If not outright abort, then retard their development, rendering them through election to be less viable members of humanity and society.
“This is WHY, it is SO IMPORTANT; that we Keep Masking, and Keep Social Distancing..
How ELSE, can we Kill Our Children?”
Given the financial ruin they will inherit, it would be a mercy killing.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
The hivemind are obsessed with covid boosters. You can take your booster and stick it where the sun don't shine.
I think the hivemind prefers it in the arm.
Hunter Biden's tax payer funded Hooker said...
The hivemind are obsessed with covid boosters. You can take your booster and stick it where the sun don't shine.
I think that's OK, but they prefer you get it in the arm.
I'm so tired of "experts." When will they shut up.
" the medical response feels terrifically inadequate...." the use of the word "terrifically" in this context struck me as rather Trumpian.
All this for a disease with a 0.3% mortality rate.
Re masks: Chinese mask compliance is near as darnnit to 100%. Yet all the news coverage is how C-19 is racing through the population. How can that be?
“We were right, you were wrong, and I personally will never ever forgive you for the harm your stupidity, arrogance and spite caused for everyone else.”
Bears repeating again some more.
Next thing you know, the government will be handing out covid infected blankets to the 'anti-vax' crowd...
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