The Coronavirus, not the beer

2021 was such a terrible year... And it had nothing to do with the COVID virus

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You do realize this is florida's health secretary sharing it right? His job is to make DeSantis look good and he'll cherry pick anything to do it.
 
Nadal all of a sudden has issues with breathing.

Ironic considering he criticized Joker about his vax position.
 
Yes that is what I said.

Let the record show thethe cannot do basic reading comprehension.

The graphic was about excess mortality comparisons between states and years.

You said "he'll cherry pick anything to do it".

So I guess you just make random comments that have absolutely nothing to do with the contents of the post you are quoting? Yeah - We all believe that Zito.
 
https://www.aier.org/article/the-kids-arent-alright/

One of the awful ironies of the pandemic lockdowns is that the people least at risk from Covid were among those whom the lockdowns hurt the most. We refer, of course, to the restrictions placed on children. Parks, zoos, and swimming pools were shut down. Little League seasons were canceled. In many states schools went remote for over a year. The evidence shows that these disruptions have had a substantial impact on children’s learning, their expected lifetime incomes, their life expectancies, and their mental health. The kids are not alright.

Last December, Karyn Lewis and Megan Kuhfeld, two researchers at NWEA, a research organization, reported that student achievement at the start of the current school year was lower than for a typical year. There was a 3–7 percentage point decline in reading and a 9–11 percentage point decline in mathematics. That same month, education researchers Dan Goldhaber of the University of Washington, Thomas J. Kane of Harvard, and Andrew McEachin of NWEA plugged the Lewis/Kuhfeld data into a model to estimate how much those declines in learning would cause their lifetime income to decline. Their answer: $43,800. This number was broadly consistent with a separate study by McKinsey & Company that found an average lifetime earnings loss of between $49,000–$61,000 per student. Aggregated across all US K-12 students, these studies show more than $2 trillion in lost lifetime earnings for our youngest generation.

A recent report released by the World Bank paints a more dire picture. In that report, it estimates that the school closures could cause a loss of between 0.3 and 1.1 years of schooling, adjusted for quality. In its most pessimistic scenario, the World Bank estimates that worldwide cumulative losses could total between $16 and $20 trillion in present value terms.



Once these earning losses take hold, they lead to lower life expectancies. This connection was highlighted most prominently in a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that analyzed data on school shutdowns early in the pandemic. The authors found that missed instruction in the United States could be associated with an estimated 13.8 million years of life lost.

What makes these outcomes even more tragic is that they were experienced by children who, as was known early on, never had a significant risk of dying from COVID-19. As of the first week of March 2022, out of the nearly 950,000 Covid-19 deaths, only 865 were children under the age of 18. That amounts to about 433 children annually. This is comparable to a bad flu season in the US. For example, the CDC estimates that the actual number of flu deaths for children in the 2017-18 flu season was about 600.

Moreover, the school closings and lockdowns have led to a noticeable loss in children’s mental health. This was apparent early in the pandemic. In a CDC report released in November 2020, researchers reported that the proportion of mental health-related visits from April to October 2020 for children aged 5-11 and 12-17 years had increased by approximately 24 percent and 31 percent, respectively in comparison to 2019 data.



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Negative externalities
 
This was obvious for well over a year and was dismissed as nonsense.

COVID cowards have caused incalculable long term damage because of their cowardice.
 
https://www.aier.org/article/the-kids-arent-alright/

One of the awful ironies of the pandemic lockdowns is that the people least at risk from Covid were among those whom the lockdowns hurt the most. We refer, of course, to the restrictions placed on children. Parks, zoos, and swimming pools were shut down. Little League seasons were canceled. In many states schools went remote for over a year. The evidence shows that these disruptions have had a substantial impact on children’s learning, their expected lifetime incomes, their life expectancies, and their mental health. The kids are not alright.

Last December, Karyn Lewis and Megan Kuhfeld, two researchers at NWEA, a research organization, reported that student achievement at the start of the current school year was lower than for a typical year. There was a 3–7 percentage point decline in reading and a 9–11 percentage point decline in mathematics. That same month, education researchers Dan Goldhaber of the University of Washington, Thomas J. Kane of Harvard, and Andrew McEachin of NWEA plugged the Lewis/Kuhfeld data into a model to estimate how much those declines in learning would cause their lifetime income to decline. Their answer: $43,800. This number was broadly consistent with a separate study by McKinsey & Company that found an average lifetime earnings loss of between $49,000–$61,000 per student. Aggregated across all US K-12 students, these studies show more than $2 trillion in lost lifetime earnings for our youngest generation.

A recent report released by the World Bank paints a more dire picture. In that report, it estimates that the school closures could cause a loss of between 0.3 and 1.1 years of schooling, adjusted for quality. In its most pessimistic scenario, the World Bank estimates that worldwide cumulative losses could total between $16 and $20 trillion in present value terms.



Once these earning losses take hold, they lead to lower life expectancies. This connection was highlighted most prominently in a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that analyzed data on school shutdowns early in the pandemic. The authors found that missed instruction in the United States could be associated with an estimated 13.8 million years of life lost.

What makes these outcomes even more tragic is that they were experienced by children who, as was known early on, never had a significant risk of dying from COVID-19. As of the first week of March 2022, out of the nearly 950,000 Covid-19 deaths, only 865 were children under the age of 18. That amounts to about 433 children annually. This is comparable to a bad flu season in the US. For example, the CDC estimates that the actual number of flu deaths for children in the 2017-18 flu season was about 600.

Moreover, the school closings and lockdowns have led to a noticeable loss in children’s mental health. This was apparent early in the pandemic. In a CDC report released in November 2020, researchers reported that the proportion of mental health-related visits from April to October 2020 for children aged 5-11 and 12-17 years had increased by approximately 24 percent and 31 percent, respectively in comparison to 2019 data.



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Negative externalities

Imagine self declaring "I am intelligent" and have a two year mountain of evidence showing you enthusiastically supported this

Unbelievable horrible judgement
 
Imagine self declaring "I am intelligent" and have a two year mountain of evidence showing you enthusiastically supported this

Unbelievable horrible judgement

But we should think they are right moving forward....

Some idiots still think masking is a good thing.
 
FBI isn't even releasing crime data because of the damage from the lockdowns.

Crime against humanity and the seals just clapped along because they wanted Trump out.
 
It is not silly for a place that is nearly 100% vaccinated to also take other measures seriously. You have to take this approach because sadly there is no single intervention that will banish covid. The vaccines are very good. A godsend. But not perfect. So you throw the whole kitchen sink at this thing instead of muttering about "muh freedoms" or whining "this will never end."

What really astounds me about this whole saga is that we now have a set of interventions that are very easy to implement and collectively quite effective, but that a whole segment of society resists on ideological grounds. Getting a shot is nothing. Wearing a mask is nothing. Being tested is nothing. Minor inconveniences at worst. But there is an entire movement dedicated to resisting and undermining these measures.

Reminder how dumb this buffoon is. Speaking about 18 year old kids. Wanting them double vaxxed, masked, frequently tested, and not allowed to socialize, becuase he was sufficiently and pathetically scared
 
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Some of us saw this happening in real time.

When the history books are written we will have damaged a whole generation of young people because older people were pussies.
 
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