"Even if certain types of immune damage following COVID did turn out to be transient, which is another line of argument taken up by minimizers, how would we know in a world plagued by never-ending reinfections? If damage lasts 7 or 8 months, and a child is reinfected with the KP.2 variant in the summer and the XEC variant in the winter, when is that child ever healthy? This type of debate becomes academic in a world without mitigations; the body would barely have time to recover from one infection before the next would be on deck."
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https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/kids-keep-getting-sicker-as-evidence
@alxndr@tech.lgbt@VeeRat In my youth, exactly 0 (zero) of my schoolmates died of the flu. That's what we considered to be normal.
@ikuo1000 @alxndr @VeeRat my school years were the 80s-early 90s, and I feel like there was at least one friend a year who got pneumonia (usually walking pneumonia). It was even more prevalent each decade, as my friends were in their 20s, 30s, 40s, etc. Is it that there was a period of time before or after the 80s where kids were somehow less germy?
Thank you for reminding me that I need to talk to my GP about getting the pneumonia vaccine.