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The point of vaccinating kids is: 1. They still get sick, even if asymptomatic, and can bring it home to the house where older people live 2. I don't know if

by aroch 5y ago

The point of vaccinating kids is: 1. They still get sick, even if asymptomatic, and can bring it home to the house where older people live 2. I don't know if there are published case report / data yet, but anecdotally the new strains are much more likely to cause complications and require hospitalizations for younger children. 3. Even asymptomatic infectious seem to cause "long covid" (Something like a third of long covid cases were asymptomatic). Potentially life-long alterations to lung or heart function doesn't sound like fun

dham 5y ago
But aren't older people vaccinated?
- aroch 5y ago
  Not necessarily, you could have an immuno-compromised parent/grandparent
  - dham 5y ago
    But according to CDC, both people have to be vaccinated to talk to each other inside. This means that if one person is vaccinated you can't see you're immuno-compromised grandparent anyway.
    - aroch 5y ago
      Yes, but if your child is school age -- schools which are now increasingly going to in person instruction -- and you are immunocompromised, what are you going to do? Same question if you live in a multi-generational household, but now there are grandkids going to school and kids going to work. I see elsewhere you're claiming that long Covid isn't a thing. It is, full stop. Unless you're suggesting that living with lung and heart damage caused by Covid isn't a complication of Covid?
      - dham 5y ago
        Lung and heart damage can be the result of any virus. Just look at any article pre 2020. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.h... https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463 https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.h... https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=Studies%20have%20shown%20that%20flu,experiencing%20their%20first%20heart%20attack https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=St.... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X18301458 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X1...
      - kspacewalk2 5y ago
        Long COVID is post viral fatigue syndrome. Really sucks when you have it, nothing singularly new about it as far as any available evidence shows. A bunch of people are experiencing it all at the same time, hence the prominence in the media. "Long flu" is much more diffuse in time, so not media-worthy. Mine was 3 months of hell at 18 years old.

by aroch 5y ago

dham 5y ago

But aren't older people vaccinated?

aroch 5y ago
Not necessarily, you could have an immuno-compromised parent/grandparent
- dham 5y ago
  But according to CDC, both people have to be vaccinated to talk to each other inside. This means that if one person is vaccinated you can't see you're immuno-compromised grandparent anyway.
  - aroch 5y ago
    Yes, but if your child is school age -- schools which are now increasingly going to in person instruction -- and you are immunocompromised, what are you going to do? Same question if you live in a multi-generational household, but now there are grandkids going to school and kids going to work. I see elsewhere you're claiming that long Covid isn't a thing. It is, full stop. Unless you're suggesting that living with lung and heart damage caused by Covid isn't a complication of Covid?
    - dham 5y ago
      Lung and heart damage can be the result of any virus. Just look at any article pre 2020. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.h... https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463 https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.h... https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=Studies%20have%20shown%20that%20flu,experiencing%20their%20first%20heart%20attack https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=St.... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X18301458 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X1...
    - kspacewalk2 5y ago
      Long COVID is post viral fatigue syndrome. Really sucks when you have it, nothing singularly new about it as far as any available evidence shows. A bunch of people are experiencing it all at the same time, hence the prominence in the media. "Long flu" is much more diffuse in time, so not media-worthy. Mine was 3 months of hell at 18 years old.