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The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), as Robby Soave detailed this morning, is on strike this week over being asked to teach in schools. Last month, the CTU laid out its basic objection in one short if repetitive (and eventually deleted) sentence:
"The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny."
So these same people that are pushing the "science" seem to be ignoring these two simple facts:
A) School age children 5 to 24 while may have COVID death is extremely rare. 505 out of population of 83,680,000
B) Average age of teacher is 41 and COVID death rate is as follows: 5,101 deaths out of population of 19,920,000
The "science" says hmmm... 505 deaths out of 83,680,000 doesn't seem be that high of risk.
Compared to these "risks"...
CDC data show a 24 percent increase in emergency room mental health visits for children ages 5 to 11, compared to 2019. Among adolescents ages 12 to 17, that increase is 31 percent. Last summer, the CDC reported that one in four young adults had contemplated suicide in the previous month.
What Kulldorff and other public health researchers expose is the fact that there are tradeoffs to any policy. “If it saves just one life,” a mantra echoedduring the COVID response as a rallying cry for lockdowns, fails to acknowledge the lives damaged or lost due to these lockdown policies. Lockdown harms and deaths are as real as COVID harms and deaths and should be taken seriously when considering a holistic pandemic response.
"The push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny."
So these same people that are pushing the "science" seem to be ignoring these two simple facts:
A) School age children 5 to 24 while may have COVID death is extremely rare. 505 out of population of 83,680,000
B) Average age of teacher is 41 and COVID death rate is as follows: 5,101 deaths out of population of 19,920,000
The "science" says hmmm... 505 deaths out of 83,680,000 doesn't seem be that high of risk.
Compared to these "risks"...
CDC data show a 24 percent increase in emergency room mental health visits for children ages 5 to 11, compared to 2019. Among adolescents ages 12 to 17, that increase is 31 percent. Last summer, the CDC reported that one in four young adults had contemplated suicide in the previous month.
What Kulldorff and other public health researchers expose is the fact that there are tradeoffs to any policy. “If it saves just one life,” a mantra echoedduring the COVID response as a rallying cry for lockdowns, fails to acknowledge the lives damaged or lost due to these lockdown policies. Lockdown harms and deaths are as real as COVID harms and deaths and should be taken seriously when considering a holistic pandemic response.
Youth Depression, Suicide Increasing During Pandemic Response
In the Clark County, Nevada school district, 18 students took their lives during the nine months of school closures, which is double the number of students who committed suicide in the district in all of 2019, the New York Times reports. The youngest child was just nine years old.
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