Liars
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i don’t think “suffer the little children” means what they think it means
Some conservative states rushed to unmask students before they were eligible for vaccination, and while Delta was still on the rise. The results were not encouraging. In August, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican with presidential ambitions, declared that local school districts couldn’t mandate masking even if they wanted to, though polls unambiguously showed that most parents favored masks in schools.
As the hypercontagious Delta variant surged in the low-restriction state where millions remained unvaccinated, thousands of kids were sent into quarantine, disrupting school and work. The daily number of pediatric hospitalizations increased tenfold; ultimately, more Florida children died of COVID this summer than during the previous 16 months combined.
Here’s the Poitico article that assertion links to — note the headline:
Child Covid deaths more than doubled in Florida as kids returned to the classroom
A POLITICO analysis of weekly Covid-19 reports from the Florida Department of Health shows that 10 children under the age of 16 died from Covid-19 from July 30 to present as the Delta variant — which is much more transmissible — became the dominant strain. Previously, a total of seven kids diedfrom the virus from the beginning of the pandemic through July, amounting to a span of more than 15 months.
The state now has seen 17 deaths, and American Academy of Pediatrics Florida President Lisa Gwynn said many of them may have had underlying medical conditions when they became infected.
Not content with that deliberately deceptive — the writer must have seen the numbers: 10 vs 17, and made conscious decision to leave them out, because it undermined the narrative – the article continues with still more
While masks could not have stopped Florida’s tragic Delta wave, multiple studies have demonstrated that universal masking — in schools and other places — can help slow the spread of the virus and lessen its toll, especially in combination with other safety measures. Eight other states tried to ban mask mandates, like Florida; none fared well over the summer.
That last link goes to a NYT Article, which, shows that new COVID cases were down 17% nationally, and gives the differences between liberal states and the media’s despised, conservative boogeyman states:
TX -28%
FL - 19%
Miss. -37%
NY + 27%
MA +24%
MN +50%
And how have school children, which this article purports to be about, been doing during this pandemic? Just fine. Here’s a chart from that same NYT article.
(Follow the “under 18” line)
As I keep saying, Pandemic porn is like global warming propaganda: it’s all hysteria, all the time, all to advance a communist left wing agenda.