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David Shane's avatar

I would also point to Philippe Lemoine's piece - what do things look like five, or twenty years from now (you know, that question public health never seems to ask itself anymore)? His answer was, COVID is always here but it's no longer serious. Why is it no longer serious? Because people are first infected when they are young and it is harmless, setting them on a path of lifelong immunity during which they are constantly reinfected, but it is never serious until they are old and weak. Eventually, he said, the only people who will be vaccinated are the elderly.

So if that is the eventual situation, and a central piece of that eventual situation is "kids get infected when young but that's fine because the disease is nearly harmless to them and that helps protect them for the rest of their lives"... then why are we fanatically attempting to prevent them from being infected now?

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Nick H's avatar

I would not be opposed to a mask mandate for unvaccinated kids in high school, but that's about it. My kids elementary school is making kids wear masks full time, including outside at recess. I'd pull them out except that my wife is a teacher at the school and that would be really awkward for everyone. It's ridiculous.

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