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brin_bellway[fairly strong cw: illness]
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The main thing I'm going "aaaaaaaa" about is actually in the comments. Are you telling me that our society has been forcing adults to make tremendous sacrifices WRT their own levels of disease exposure† in order to train kids' immune systems, and we may actually be harming *everyone* *including* the kids by so doing?
...okay, I know, even *that* is giving too much credit: I'm almost certain that congregate schooling was not *intentionally* designed as a disease propagation method to give kids as many antibodies as possible while they're still young (read: can physically bounce back better + have few responsibilities). It was probably only obvious in hindsight, and even then only to people who, as Siderea puts it, believe in germ theory.
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†what happens in school doesn't stay in school. especially if you're a parent, but not entirely: I serve a lot of kids at work (they mostly stayed away in 2020, but they were there before and they're coming back now), and of course the chain of transmission can also go child-->parent-->other-adults. ↩
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The main thing I'm going "aaaaaaaa" about is actually in the comments. Are you telling me that our society has been forcing adults to make tremendous sacrifices WRT their own levels of disease exposure† in order to train kids' immune systems, and we may actually be harming *everyone* *including* the kids by so doing?
...okay, I know, even *that* is giving too much credit: I'm almost certain that congregate schooling was not *intentionally* designed as a disease propagation method to give kids as many antibodies as possible while they're still young (read: can physically bounce back better + have few responsibilities). It was probably only obvious in hindsight, and even then only to people who, as Siderea puts it, believe in germ theory.
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†what happens in school doesn't stay in school. especially if you're a parent, but not entirely: I serve a lot of kids at work (they mostly stayed away in 2020, but they were there before and they're coming back now), and of course the chain of transmission can also go child-->parent-->other-adults. ↩
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Date: 2021-09-18 05:04 pm (UTC)Haha no.
(see last year's Siderea flu-shot discussion)
I mean, I can't complain too hard given some of the horror stories I hear about trying to get a hospital bed in the States right now. "Hospital beds are available but flu shots are not" is far better than the reverse.
I'm thinking that this year I will *get* a flu shot but will not trek across the county chasing them like I did last year: I'll wait until they're available at the closest pharmacy, or at a pharmacy I happen to be near while running errands. If I didn't have a respirator (just got another two pairs of P100 filters in!) I'd feel a lot more urgency about it, though.