Children can get seriously ill from C-19

[Lifeisabeach09]

Sorry to upset anyone but I wanted to highlight that this virus can seriously affect children.

A 12 year old with NO underlying conditions is on a ventilator in the US.

edition.cnn.com/2020/03/22/us/georgia-coronavirus-girl-hospitalized/index.html

However, kids becoming seriously ill with the virus is still very uncommon.

@GrumpyHoonMain a bare faced lie. Nobody under nine has died from coronavirus. www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Assessing risk is notoriously hard. Children without preexisting conditions also die from flu and in car accidents. I realise obviously that this is much worse than flu. But really what you need here is statistics. Not one story.

There is a point in posting this so people will wake the fuck up and stop risking there children

Yeah seriously, all the absolute raging prats treating this weekend as a bank holiday need to understand they’re risking their own and their kids lives by not just staying in.

At least now we know the stupid people - the ones that think crowding at parks and markets is social distancing.

I disagree with people saying everyone needs to see this so they can stay inside. What about the fear it’s causing to the key workers who have no bloody choice to stay in and have to go out and face this day in day out. It’s difficult to do my job due to the fear of this but I’ve got no choice we wouldn’t eat otherwise.

Just about to take my kids to nursery on public transport as me and DH are both key workers who cannot work from home, and are needed at work. This is just what I needed to read - guilt and worry has just notched up a bit more.

I'm particularly looking forward to the judgemental looks I'll be getting from others who will probably think I'm just out for a jolly.

X posted with beststressed - thanks for the understanding!

I would openly tell them what you're doing and to fuck off @Lotsofpots. If they're being judgemental twats, you can be rude.

You just cheered me up no end @Herja - thanks!

There’s a line between knowing how serious it is which I absolutely agree we do need and scaring everyone to a degree that the people who don’t have the luxury of staying in to the point they are beyond terrified of going to work. So thanks for that. You don’t mean to scare but you ARE. And we don’t have a choice about leaving our homes and risking ourselves.

And yet flights are still coming in from affected countries and borders are not yet shut. I am keeping my family at home and doing my best to socially distance, but forgive me if threads like this make me feel even more panicky and helpless about things that are out of my control. We know everyone is at risk, I don't think that's news?? I'm terrified of my children getting it!

“Not helpful?”

On the contrary. These cases might make people think twice about going off to the park or whatever

It’s a Narional, nope, International emergency and now isn’t the time for worrying about people’s feelings tbh/

I’ve often doubted the “old
Folk only” line, it’s exactly what I would way if I were trying to stop mass panic

Stupid thread
So much misinformation
Threads like this should be locked down let alone people ffs

Managing this does involve keeping people calm. If you panic and scaremonger with inaccurate data just to be holier than thou then you are a twat
And this crisis really has them coming out of the woodwork

The risk to individual children remains low. People usually take a number of other risks without considering the worst case scenario and without helpful strangers on the Internet pointing them out. The actions that we are taking relate to managing risk at a population level. So if you have to work and send your children to nursery, keep that in mind.

Yes exactly. What about nurses who have to send their kids to childcare?
Is it fair to scare them by cherry picking data?
Assholes

But people aren’t taking this seriously, scenes from London/Brighton etc yesterday are glaring proof of that.

Of course key workers need to work, and put their kids in childcare. But the way WE protect them and their children is to understand this thing isn’t fucking about and take isolating seriously.

There is a point in posting this so people will wake the fuck up and stop risking there children

The kinds of selfish idiots who are flocking to National Trust places and the seaside think the rules don't apply to them. They think it will never happen to them 🙄

I don't think that threads like this are helpful

I do - too many people think this is something that won’t affect them and so are treating it too casually.

People like @Lotsofpots need to be out (thank you!) so the least those of us who don’t have to be can do is to stay at home.

Yes but @PegasusReturns - as I said idiots like that won't be scared by anything. They think it won't happen to them.

The modelling and stats has always shown a very small proportion of under 19s will get it seriously - always.

if you look at the numbers of people who have died and/or currently in ICU and then look at the fact that this is clearly one of the very few under 19s who are in to me proves exactly what has always been said.

It's like seats belts - are your children likely to actually die if they bounce around in the back seat of the car a la 1954? No. Would a seat belt reduce the very low chance of death to almost zero? Yes.

So put a fucking seat belt on and STAY AT HOME.

I wonder how the death rate for children with covid compares to the flu or chicken pox. Does anyone know so it can be put into perspective. Children can die of these illnesses too.

If children are getting ill from it it needs to be discussed. It was rammed down our throats from the very beginning that it doesn’t harm children - but it does. The government should have been utterly honest instead of not trying to cause panic. It’s led to parents and older children being led in to a false security that they will be fine. Ive also read that there was the death of a three year old in Scotland but the post had to be removed, although I’ve not seen it so it may not be true - but it wouldn’t surprise me.

My school was one of the very first that closed down when kids were coming back from skiing in Italy. That’s when I started taking this seriously and tbh I was scoffed at by many patents when I said I wasn’t sending my dc back to the the school.

So we’re at a point where still so many people still no staying in, I’ve been in for weeks and about to lose my freedom because people think only old people die because of it.