Would you be surprised to learn that this article doesn’t mention any health effects of getting covid, a virus that can cause brain damage?
Sussman and Frankel are not alone in their anxiety. Eli is one of more than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic who are walking into elementary schools across the country this fall. They’re children who came into a world full of masked adults dousing themselves in hand sanitizer. Many spent the first year of their lives either in isolation in lockdowns or with only a handful of trusted people in their bubbles. And the long-term impact on these “COVID kindergartners” remains unclear.
Maybe we should ban hand sanitizer?
A 2023 study published in Epic Research found that children who turned 2 between October and December 2021 were about 32% more likely to have a speech delay diagnosis than those who turned 2 in 2018. That rate increased dramatically, up to nearly 88%, for children who turned 2 between January and March 2023. Overall, the speech delay diagnoses increased from an average of 9% of children in 2018 to nearly 17% in the first quarter of 2023.
Did people mask at home around their babies? How many strangers do infants normally interact with for significant periods of time? Wierd how having more time with their parents due to brief lockdowns wasn’t a good thing.
School attendance and preschool enrollment levels have also suffered since the pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education’s most recent study on attendance found that the rate of chronic absenteeism — which is when students miss 10% or more of school — averaged 28% across the country during the 2022-2023 school year.
Would you be surprised to learn they don’t mention several years of record rates of other diseases like RSV, Strep, and Flu in relation to these statistics?
Anyway, it’s certainly not the disease that causes brain damage and memory problems, or how it takes a toll on our immune system, it was our reaction to the virus that was the real problem becuase it disrupted our routines.
Here’s another news article that’s probably not related to the brain damaging virus we are letting infect everyone: Memory problems increase among Nordic children. The article entertains the theory that cell towers and microwaves are to blame, but I’m pretty sure the problem is hand sanitizer.
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This is all so unserious. It’s completely “normal” for babies less than a year or two old to not have many contacts. When my kid was a baby the first months you were recommended not to socialize much outside the family or travel to literally protect the child from you know, pathogens.
A baby needs their family and small circles. Then at age 3-4 they go to daycare if they must, but the smaller the groups are the better. We of course don’t have any of this anymore because capitalism, but when my kid was small his contacts in life under the age of 7 were like 10 people max.
And the whole masking bs. You don’t mask at home. You spend time with your baby mostly at home. If anything the remote work and stuff probably made it so that some privileged kids got to be with their family more than they nowadays "normally"are when mom has to go back to work straight from the maternity ward.
when my kid was small his contacts in life under the age of 7 were like 10 people max.
your child will never maximize synergy in the workplace with a network that small #grindset
It’s fun how libs (and most leftists) are now indistinguishable from chuds on COVID. Really cool example of how effective propaganda can be. I love it here.
FWIW The Nordic Times looks like a far-right propaganda website (one of their op-eds in the sidebar is about how Sweden is “suppressing free speech” by not letting a british neo-nazi into the country) so I wouldn’t take them too seriously.
I’m still firmly the opinion that you are not a leftist if you do not advocate for public health. You can read Lenin and post on a geometric bear themed webzone all you want. But if you can’t do something as simple as wearing a mask, then you are showing that you don’t actually care for the proletariat. You must have, at the very least, a mask. Even if you just suspect you are ill or refrain from contact with others while your symptomatic/contagious. That is such a barebones thing to do.
Notice how I didn’t even mention COVID? That’s because communicable illnesses in general are an enemy of public health. All of them, from the cold to rabies. The youth, the disabled, and the marginalized deserve to share in the same spaces everyone else. And to do so safely. We should all view disease as an impediment to revolution. But god forbid you bring this up to your local org.
too many words. classic leftist meme
FWIW The Nordic Times looks like a far-right propaganda website
- half of the articles under “health” are about how covid vaccines are dangerous actually
- “europe” section predictably anti-eu and
anti-migrantracist - “culture” is predictably about trad shit like stinky fish and vikings and fair blondes
- “nordics” predictably about how every beautiful white child/elderly in the nordics is being murdered by a muslim at all times
- “world” section is anti-zionist (and maybe even pro-palestinian), pro peace in ukraine
who are these people? i haven’t kept up with european news but this seems like standard euro far-right-populist crap apart from “world” which seems less right wing than standard liberal conservatives, granted i only read the headlines.
Googled and found this medium post saying it’s an english-translated version of a nordic far right news site.
I think you mis-ctrl-ved the nordic link, but I’d like to read that one
