Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 10 2021 03:35pm)
A recency time weighted average is pretty important, not sure why you think it's not. It tells us how we are doing now rather than averaging it all together from it's inception. Sound policy needs to be based on things that lets say happened in the last 30 days, 60 days, whatever, maybe weight it for some sort of flu season seasonality and so on, not things that have happened 16 months ago.
It is very clear that this virus impacts kids very minimally, but it's almost purposefully being omitted from mainstream reporting for some reason.
I don't disagree in general, I just don't understand why May/June/July binned data doesn't give you the information you need. The Delta variant has been around for months and we have plenty of studies on how effective certain mitigation efforts are.
As for the media, I agree that the coverage could be better but I don't think you're going to be able to convince profit driven networks to not focus on "the next disaster." Their primary goal is to get you to watch their garbage. Informing the viewer is a "nice to have" from their perspective. If you want to be informed, you have to read.
Quote (ofthevoid @ Aug 10 2021 03:28pm)
Probably not, but I certainly would not give them the vaccine, nor would I change anything about their lifestyle, especially if they're a healthy child. Everything in life is a risk. If you are going to pull your kid from school, force him inside to not play with other kids, basically put them in a bubble for a .0001% risk of death from Covid, well then you're not a person of science.
Why wouldn't you give them the vaccine if the probability of side effects is significantly less than the probability of symptoms from the actual disease? We have chicken pox vaccines now and I don't see a reason why you should let your kid get the pox if you can avoid it. As far as I'm concerned, if a vaccine is proven to be safe, I'd say that it's the recommended course of action. I agree that we shouldn't change much about their lifestyle unless they will be around unhealthy people and could transmit the disease to them.