We've known this all along, but now (a few of) the state propaganda organs are admitting it.
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giving new meaning to “suffer the children”
NPR (!): Children’s risk of serious illness from the China Flu is as low as it is from the flu.
For children in particular, the risk of serious consequences from COVID-19 is the same magnitude as the risk they face from the flu, she says. But many parents seem more worried about the new and less familiar disease. That anxiety is heightened by the new guidelines on mask-wearing. But experts urge parents to try not to worry too much. "If you stop going into stores because you're terrified you'll run into an unmasked person, that's probably overreacting," says Gretchen Chapman, a psychology professor who studies health conundrums like this at Carnegie Mellon University. It's understandable why parents would feel that way, she says. Though these risks are very low, they're not zero. And people struggle to conceptualize the difference between small risks — for example, something that's 1 in 1,000 versus 1 in 1 million. "It doesn't seem that different to the person," Chapman says.
The CDC, Dr. Befuddled, and the NEA refuse to acknowledge or follow the science, but that’s no surprise. Those three, as well as the pubic health system itself, have destroyed any shred of credibility that might once have enjoyed — remember when a majority of people thought teachers had the best interests of their students at heart? Or wanted to educate, not indoctrinate them? Only the media and the Democrats are trusted less.
Circling Back: Governor Abbot’s decision to end mask requirements for school children is, according to teachers’ unions, “reckless and dangerous”. Dr. Nancy Vera, president of the Corpus Christi American Federation of Teachers, says the government “is going to cause a lot of suffering and illness. I think that is a travesty.”
Randi Weingarten was so upset that she had to invent a fake conclusion by the CDC* to attack the governor.
