Continuing coronavirus happenings (Part 4)

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Coming back to this:

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Today, via Tagesschau.de:

The Professional Association of Paediatricians and Adolescent Doctors has called for the obligation to carry out corona tests at schools without a reason to be lifted and also to review the obligation to wear masks. “We are now in a situation where older age groups can protect themselves through vaccinations, so schools and daycare centres must remain open regardless of the incidence of infection,” federal spokesman Jakob Maske told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland. “There should also be no more ad hoc testing in schools and daycare centres, and the mask requirement should be reconsidered in a timely manner.” The physician also pleaded that 2G rules - i.e. access only for vaccinated or recovered persons - should only apply to people aged 18 and over. In the past, he said, politicians had repeatedly made decisions that did not take the best interests of the child into account. “This has led to severe mental impairment, but also to a significant increase in social disparities.”

[Translated with DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator ]

NB: there is a nuance lost in translation: the tests are anlasslos, i.e. not because someone showed symptoms or had contact to a known case.

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Is that a legitimate pediatric organization? We have the American Academy of Pediatics, which legitimately lobbies for improved health care for kids, then we have the American College of Pediatricians, which is an astroturf group existing basically to echo rightwing, LGBTQ-phobic, covidiot talking points. This latter group would put out a statement like that. The former would not. That sounds like “the kids need to get it and get over it. If some die or are disabled, it’s not our problem.”

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Protestor: ‘Needles make my arm ouchy. Isn’t there an alternative?’

Canadian government: ‘Well…’

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The Toronto Sun :roll_eyes:

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Some reporting on the > 100k veterans cohort study:

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Yeah. I dont know that source from shinola, but I could tell by 3 graphs in that it must shovel little more than tons of horse hockey.

Surely unworthy of providing it with page views by linking any of its hooey here.

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Yes, that is a legitimate pediatricians group. Pediatrics, in Germany, so far played a strange role during this pandemic. I don’t know where this comes from, but (at least) their lobbying groups were often voicing opinions which I can only subsume as counterproductive to getting the pandemic under control.

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The Toronto Sun is a right-wing tabloid. I don’t know much about Joe Warmington, except that he appeared on a political propaganda show by Rob and Doug Ford on Ezra Levant’s far-right Sun News Network.

Consider the source.

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Yeah, that’s why I highlighted the tabloid with an eyeroll. :wink:

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The Atlantic continues to be one of the best sources in the pandemic.

ETA: learned a new verb from this piece I will try to cultivate. To finagle something, as in:

In the face of collective risk, the better bet will be at least to choose some policy, with the understanding that we’ll have to tweak and finagle it, rather than select door No. 3—total inaction, an opportunity for the virus to run roughshod over us because we simply let it.

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I cringe at the thought of what de Pfeffel will do with this this.

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That he infected her should be the story going forward.

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Arkansas trying to out-Florida Florida. Idiots.

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Id rather not click over and do that, thanks, coz like i said I’d rather not give it page views. Nor any consideration at all, really. So like, why even post links to that shit here? :woman_shrugging:

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