Current Events > More covid doom and gloom. Cali up 50% and spreading in kids 12 and under.

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Fyi kids are unvaxxed

https://deadline.com/2021/08/california- covid-cases-up-fifty-percent-spread- among-kids-1234807685/

New cases of Covid-19 in California rose about 10% over the weekend, a timeframe that often sees undercounts due to diminished testing on Saturdays and Sundays. The 10,356 new cases reported on Friday rose to a three-day daily average of 11,135 on Monday. (The state has stopped reporting daily cases on weekends and now reports a three-day lump sum on Mondays.)

That 10% rise on Monday followed a 39% one-day rise from Thursday to Friday of last week, making for a total 49-plus percent rise in new cases since just Thursday. More reliable measures of infection spread have also risen dramatically.

Providence Saint Johns Health Center in Santa Monica a city where approximately 80% of eligible residents are vaccinated is currently packed with Covid patients, according to a Monday New York Times report.

Numbers presented by L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer last Tuesday indicate there has been a fivefold increase in new Covid patients under 12 years old. (For perspective those under 12, who are not eligible for vaccination, make up about 15% of the countys population.) While raw case numbers were low relative to county residents ages 12 to 49, data indicating the spread of infections are not.

In the two-week period ending July 18, there were 89 cases per 100,000 people age 0 to 4 and 112 cases per 100,000 age 5 to 11. While there were no pediatric Covid deaths recorded in the county for the period from June 18 to July 18. Ferrers presentation to the board indicated that the hospitalization rate for children age 0 to 4 in Los Angeles County has doubled in a month. See chart below.

The spike in case rates among the very young is precisely what many health experts have feared, as daily vaccinations are still low compared to last winter and the states vaccination rate for all citizens including those not eligible for vaccines remains below 55%. Many kids in the state are due to be back in school shortly, where masks have been mandated.
The news from one East Bay area school district that recently returned to in person learning is not promising. The 11-school Brentwood district confirmed at least 15 positive Covid cases among its students and staff just three days into the new school year. While cases among kids are most often mild, a more rapid spread due to the Delta variant and the possibility of new variants popping up as the virus mutates among new hosts is not a pretty picture for kids or parents, whove already been through a year of pandemic worries, not to mention homeschooling.

Bad news.

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Damn it.

All else aside, I was hoping Critical Role could go back to sitting at the same table <_<

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Going full speed ahead with schools is a mistake.

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I was told that young were immune to this

It's almost like that was utter bullshit from the very beginning.

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210716112443.htm

New UK study reveals extent of brain complications in children hospitalized with COVID-19

Although the risk of a child being admitted to hospital due to COVID-19 is small, a new UK study has found that around 1 in 20 of children hospitalized with COVID-19 develop brain or nerve complications linked to the viral infection.

You guys gonna put on a fucking mask yet?

Umbreon posted...

I was told that young were immune to this

It's almost like that was utter bullshit from the very beginning.

Hospitalization is much rarer for them.

WingsOfGood posted...

Hospitalization is much rarer for them.

Idk man anything that messes up the brain seems to be a life long issue to me

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Umbreon posted...

I was told that young were immune to this

It's almost like that was utter bullshit from the very beginning.

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WingsOfGood posted...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210716112443.htm

You guys gonna put on a fucking mask yet?

Damn. So it has been effecting kinda this whole time but because they showed no symptoms like coughing people just thought kids were immune or it was harmless to them. Or else there would have been a bigger push to get them vaccinated.

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Just give it a few weeks, Texas and Florida and their brain dead laws to make it illegal to mandate masks in classrooms, because fuck the teachers and everyone else. Kids need to be IN SCHOOL IN PERSON! It's going to be worse in the South than it ever was last year, and our republican leaders want it to happen.

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Rabies doesn't have any symptoms either...

Well, not until it reaches your brain anyway. Then you're 99% fucked.

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It feels like most states are choosing to ignore it at this point. The feds need to step in and bitch slap some of these governors into submission.

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BlueTigerLion posted...

Damn. So it has been effecting kinda this whole time but because they showed no symptoms like coughing people just thought kids were immune or it was harmless to them. Or else there would have been a bigger push to get them vaccinated.

Well this study is for kids who are hospitalized.

Well kids are old and have preexisting conditions. We can't worry about protecting the weakest and most expendable among us.


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WingsOfGood posted...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/07/210716112443.htm

You guys gonna put on a fucking mask yet?

Conservative logic be like "but my rights! Also Jesus will protect me! Also if Jesus doesn't protect me then it's just a cold! And if I do die it's God's plan! But if minorities die it's God's punishment!"

I've not stopped wearing a mask. :'( This won't end now. It's already far too late and only the threat of jail could even partially curb things now.

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Umbreon posted...

Rabies doesn't have any symptoms either...

Well, not until it reaches your brain anyway. Then you're 99% fucked.

imagine being bit by a pit bull who has rabies AND covid delta variant. Triple fucked >_>

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https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1422369489694363649?s=19

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RobertDoback posted...

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1422369489694363649?s=19

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RobertDoback posted...

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1422369489694363649?s=19

But I was told anti-vaxxers are fine because they only hurt themselves. Not like they can take up a hospital bed and prevent you from non-COVID-related care.

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Maybe we should stop accepting people who refused to take the vaccine to the hospital?

Like "Hey, good luck. You said you didn't need it, right?"


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hockeybub89 posted...

But I was told anti-vaxxers are fine because they only hurt themselves. Not like they can take up a hospital bed and prevent you from non-COVID-related care.

Somebody lied.

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Umbreon posted...

Maybe we should stop accepting people who refused to take the vaccine to the hospital?

Like "Hey, good luck. You said you didn't need it, right?"

But those are death panels and that's bad when it hurts my team's political aspirations.

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After much contemplation and fear I'm getting my first shot tomorrow. Feel foolish for waiting so long. I've always worn a mask and I've never been anti-vax. So. Maybe the tide is turning as morons like myself do the right thing. Maybe it's not too late.

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Apparently the majority of the cases in Queensland (Australian state)'s current outbreak are in kids under 10.

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hockeybub89 posted...

But I was told anti-vaxxers are fine because they only hurt themselves.

this logic drives me mental

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Trumble posted...

Apparently the majority of the cases in Queensland (Australian state)'s current outbreak are in kids under 10.

How high have cases risen?

People don't seem to care about kids. They say "why should i have to mask if i got the vaccine? Who cares if unvaxxed get sick?"

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Dat_Cracka_Jax posted...

People don't seem to care about kids. They say "why should i have to mask if i got the vaccine? Who cares if unvaxxed get sick?"

They do some half assed calculation in their minds to justify putting themselves ahead of others. You got liberals basically repeating Trumper talking points and it's disgusting. Especially when ever since the CDC lifted their mandate, as predicted, COVID has gotten worse and we are looking at possibly a worse winter than last year's.

Fucking complacent, spoiled, stupid fucking country.

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Umbreon posted...

I was told that young were immune to this

It's almost like that was utter bullshit from the very beginning.

How else would parents get their free daycare that everyone who doesn't have kids has to pay for if they said that kids were just as susceptible as adults?

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