Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "Most children now have natural immunity" video.

And in the natural process one in 200 people are dying. Could be more.
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If your premise was true, then you might have a point. The problem is that it's not true.
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@Joseph_Dredd Yes, and that premise is false. Nobody has "natural immunity". That was never true for diseases like the flu and the common cold and it is not true for this one, either. Just how hard is that to understand. High recovery rates among kids simply means that the kids don't die. It's grandma and grandpa who do.
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The real issue is that your kid was transmitting the virus to other people for up to five days. I understand that you are primarily worried about yourself and your kid, but that, unfortunately, is not the entirety of the problem.
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@TheTruthOfAI If he didn't infect anybody then everybody around him got lucky. Luck is never a strategy because it always runs out and it does not exist on average in the first place. The problem with COVID-19 is that many people are infectious before they notice the symptoms. This was clear very early on in the research literature (May 2020, if I remember correctly? Don't hold me to it, I don't feel like looking it up. That detail doesn't matter.). This also means that testing the symptomatic is simply a feelgood measure. By the time most people got tested and they got results back, they had already infected somebody else. Testing basically misses the window of opportunity by several days (It's the same for the flu, by the way, that's why your doctor usually won't even test you for flu, even though those tests have existed for a while). The only measures that work with COVID-19 to suppress the spread are pre-emptive. Masking works for short contacts (but most likely not for people who have to spend eight hours next to each other, including kids in school). Vaccination reduces the number of infections and lowers the rate at which the disease spreads, but only in homogeneously vaccinated groups. The only thing that is 100% effective is strict social distancing and it's the one thing that people are really not willing to do. In other words... the virus is evolved to use human behavior to its advantage.
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@TheTruthOfAI No. Like I said, the only 100% effective measure is social distancing. China basically forced all the people in Wuhan to stay indoors for twelve weeks. That's a very extreme measure that worked even without vaccination. If we combine vaccination with effective social distancing and masking, then we can get away with less restrictive measures. Much more effective masking, e.g. with battery powered respirator masks that are far more protective than either cloth or surgical masks (while being far more comfortable) would work. We have all the solutions. What we don't have is the will of the population to apply them. People are trading a misguided sense of "freedom" for a life with a deadly disease that will kill many more millions over the coming years.
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Yes, that is illegal. That's why nobody does that. :-)
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@mikeoxlong4110 They are stupid for not giving children illegal substances? :-)
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When were your kids ever immune to the flu? So what makes you believe that they are immune to COVID-19 now? Because somebody said so based on short term data? That's like saying that nobody can get flu ever, again, three weeks after the flu season is over.
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Yes, you are missing that kids are perfect vectors for the disease. They may not die themselves but their grandparents and strangers might.
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@MrWhisperingwildly Vaccination? It stops people from becoming vectors, so it stops the infection of others. We taught you that in middle school. Why did you not listen? :-)
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Why would you think that they are? Just because somebody on the internet told you? That is all it takes for you to feel good?
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