Delta is a bitch – its not only able to spread better, but it’s also making more people more seriously sick quicker including kids. Delta- Plus is even better and just wait for Delta and Lambda or Epsilon have a baby! Even the vaccinated are getting sick, which they were not with other strains, making mutations against the vaccines more likely. But the psycho pro-COVID crowd do not care – they only care if their kids have to wear masks at school because FREEEDDDOOOMMMMMMM! They are going to get our kids sick ad killed.
The pro-COVID crowd is on a rampage in school board meetings across the country this month – demanding their kids not have to wear masks because they found a single article in some obscure journal that says masks do not work or causes hypoxia – and be dammed the volumes of articles that says that masks are effective at preventing disease transmission because those don’t support their argument. They got their degree at Google University or Trump University and that should count just as much as the army of epidemiologists, virologists, and other medical and health experts who say masks work.
And while they hopefully make up the minority of people, there is just not enough of the pro-mask/pro vaccine/ pro-science crowd speaking out. I looked through the letters and heard the speakers at our local school board meeting last night – I was only one of a few who spoke out in favor of mandatory masking to keep our kids, teachers, staff, and community safe and urged the board to follow the science not the conspiracies. But most people and letter submitted to the board received gave crazy theories, cited biased or disproven research, etc. about how masks are going to kill our kids. School boards are elected officials and will often cave into the will of the vocal. I had to leave because I was about to go postal on the pro-COVID crowd.
School starts for most kids this month. It is too late for unvaccinated kids to get vaccinated and it be effective on the first day of school. The most they could hope for is to be fully vaccinated by Mid September and by then Delta could have easily spread through the school. Almost no kids in elementary school can get vaccinated because it has not been approved for the under 12 crowd. The ONLY hope we have of protecting an entire generation is masks and social distancing as much as possible.
It’s not just the death among kids I am worried about. According to Thompson (2021) 12-14% of kids who got COVID are showing signs of long haulers. It is looking like the damage we are seeing might just be permanent. Think about what that impact is going to be on our world (and now add in climate change and the shit storm that is going to bring on top of long haulers).
It’s not paranoia when they are actually out to get you! If you are pro science you need to be speaking up at the local and county level NOW! If you do not think you are going to be impacted by people having long haulers symptoms for the rest of their life, you are wrong.