Parents: how much does the idea of your kid getting Covid freak you out?

highhoppingworm wrote:

What do you gain by trying to combat what is so painfully obvious to functional members of society? Is this some QAnon cult fascination where believing in something based on slivers of internet propaganda despite all rationale evidence makes you feel like you are in on a “secret” that the rest of us aren’t? Are you a flat earthed too?

The judges motivations are immaterial. There is a shortage of PICU beds in Dallas. Full stop. You are going to sit here and suggest that this is not a result of COVID? Just give it a rest.

Define "shortage"? Running out of the pre-assigned PICU beds and just freeing some more is not a shortage.

And lets talk about RSV for a minute. Why would there be an uptick in RSV cases? Well, RSV generally hits kids between the ages of 0-2. Kids who are nursing get most of their protection from antibodies they receive from their mother. Well, if mom hasn't been getting exposed to viruses that cause RSV because of masking ordinances and shut downs, then antibody levels in her breast milk will be relatively low. Additionally, newborns born when pediatric offices were shutdown or lost in the resultant backlog of patients may not have received their preventative vaccines. It was a perfect storm of actions (completely man made) that resulted in the surge in RSV cases.

a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts.

So you are going with “the cure is worse than the illness” line of reasoning. People absolutely have been unable to engage with the healthcare system appropriately as a result of COVID. Guess what, we now we have the unvaccinated adult dipstick population to thank for that.

What next? Economic damage and behavioral health issues are worse than the 600k+ dead?

You people are living on another planet. I swear to god. If you are so concerned about antibodies in breast milk and the subsequent impact on PICU capacity why don’t you to get jabbed and do your part to slow community transmission so we can all get back to something resembling normal.

I’m done here. There is no fixing stupid.

The Unkle wrote:

Not at all

Yes, but you are human trash.

Orcas wrote:

Define "shortage"? Running out of the pre-assigned PICU beds and just freeing some more is not a shortage.

You don’t just “assign” new PICU beds except in a shortage. PICUs are their own things with their own physical space and most importantly nursing and attending staff sized to handle things at their max. If you go over, that’s a problem—in terms of physical resources and personnel . (My wife is a PICU attending).

To that end, PICUs filling up has been exceedingly rare (and I suppose is alarming if it’s now happening). My wife works in the only teaching PICU for a fairly large area and they’ve only had a handful of serious covid cases in the entire pandemic.

In any event, I’m not particularly afraid for my own children. The biggest issue is the disruption to their schooling. The worst outcomes (long covid, brain inflammation) are very rare—on the order of other dangerous things like car crashes.

0%. 3 kids. I’m well aware it is inevitable they’ll one day get covid, and equally aware they’ll be perfectly fine. The media panic porn causing these school mandates is disgraceful.

snowflake hunter wrote:

The Unkle wrote:

Not at all

Yes, but you are human trash.

Yo. Do not feed the troll.

Such baseless fear mongering. Good grief… there is really no hope for America. The leftists have gone utterly and completely mad.

"Parents: how much does the idea of your kid getting Covid freak you out?"

It's a matter of mild concern but doesn't freak me out. Fortunately, my children are in their 20s and not idiots (they take after their mother) and got vaccinated promptly, as did I.

Flagpole wrote:

Not fearmongering...

Oh sure, coming from the guy who advises not to run outside, ride a motorcycle, and anything else he doesn’t do, or else you’ll die. Why risk it?

kibitzer wrote:

"Parents: how much does the idea of your kid getting Covid freak you out?"

It's a matter of mild concern but doesn't freak me out. Fortunately, my children are in their 20s and not idiots (they take after their mother) and got vaccinated promptly, as did I.

Makes sense. I was talking more to parents of younger kids that can’t get vaxxed yet.

ffg wrote:

snowflake hunter wrote:

Yes, but you are human trash.

Yo. Do not feed the troll.

I will because I want a direct fight against The Unkle.

I still follow all previous and current Covid Safety protocol...

BUT I have had it with people like Unkle.

So, let's do this ...

I'm Mike...

I'm in Tennessee..

My number is (760) 891-9757

My email is

Where do you want to do this Unkle??

Name, location, phone, email...

Provide or you're yeller....

A yeller Texan is the lowest form

So what unkle..be tough and provide or It's clear you're a fraud.

highhoppingworm wrote:

Let me see… trust my wife, one of the more qualified people in the world to have an opinion on this or some anonymous dude on a message board named runner dad guy. Tough choice.

Yep. I am in the same boat. My wife is actually a bonafide genius AND has the Immunology background too. I'll trust what she says on this.

joed|rt wrote:

How much of the strain on Pediatric ICU capacity is tied to COVID and how much is tied to a combination of not challenging kids immune systems over the past year, missed medical appointments and the RSV outbreak (which is tied to the other two factors)?

Wow...you are bending over backwards to try to make your wacko thoughts on this be correct. They're not. You have no idea what you're talking about.

highhoppingworm wrote:

The judges motivations are immaterial. There is a shortage of PICU beds in Dallas. Full stop. You are going to sit here and suggest that this is not a result of COVID? Just give it a rest.

CORRECT!

So you agree that we DON'T know. I got the vaccine, but we don't KNOW. Hopefully our leaders will set politics aside and put our best interests in the forefront.

highhoppingworm wrote:

So you are going with “the cure is worse than the illness” line of reasoning. People absolutely have been unable to engage with the healthcare system appropriately as a result of COVID. Guess what, we now we have the unvaccinated adult dipstick population to thank for that.

What next? Economic damage and behavioral health issues are worse than the 600k+ dead?

You people are living on another planet. I swear to god. If you are so concerned about antibodies in breast milk and the subsequent impact on PICU capacity why don’t you to get jabbed and do your part to slow community transmission so we can all get back to something resembling normal.

I’m done here. There is no fixing stupid.

I bet everything I have and own that you think you are smart and have the 'right ' answers. I also bet the same that you 'think' you're team is right.

Flagpole wrote:

highhoppingworm wrote:

The judges motivations are immaterial. There is a shortage of PICU beds in Dallas. Full stop. You are going to sit here and suggest that this is not a result of COVID? Just give it a rest.

CORRECT!

If you really want to follow the Science, children are not dying from Covid anymore than the flu, but it goes against your teams narrative.