The Surrey Now-Leader (a weekly in British Columbia) asks, "Why are B.C. kids sick all the time?"
Covid!
There, that was easy.
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. It’s been a rotating door here of sickness. Someone is always sick. Since September, and I don't even know if blaming schools and daycare is the reason. I need family immunity help. Any tips? ” – shared by a mom on social media, December 2024
Wear a fucking mask, and put them on your kids!
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B.C. schools restarted during a summer surge of COVID-19, and since then, it’s been a neverending parade of viruses infecting schoolchildren and their families. In the lead-up to the holidays, B.C.’s pediatric laboratory RSV test positivity rate was hitting last year’s high of 30 per cent. Meanwhile the pediatric RSV admissions were outpacing last year’s, as per the latest report of the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program. At the same time, influenza infections were ramping up.
In the fall of 2022, parents were told to blame “immunity debt” for the surge in children and youths’ respiratory infections. Immunity "debt" or "gap" was proposed to result from the lack of immune stimulation due to the reduced circulation of microbial agents and reduced vaccine uptake during the early years of the pandemic.
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But is this really what’s going on? Many scientists didn’t buy it then, and don’t buy it now. Some have pointed out that increased levels of infectious disease have persisted after several years without widespread mitigations -- and kids who weren’t even born yet during lockdowns bear much of the brunt of current infections.
(emphasis mine)
Wear a fucking mask, and put them on your kids!
I get it. Our whole corrupt sick society is opposed to the very idea of public health, but some very basic, and rather inexpensive, rediations will protect your kids, preventing things like brain injury and long term immune system damage.
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On Oct. 22, 2024, at her last update on B.C.’s respiratory illness season, [BC Provincial Heath Officer ] Dr. [Bonnie] Henry stated as much: “If you’ve had COVID recently, you’ve had a boost to your immunity, so that’s a good thing.”
Bonnie Henry is a fucking moron.
Wear a fucking mask, and put them on your kids!
I would note that Dr. Henry is still tepid about Covid being airborne, and
has removed requirements for first responders to be vaccinated.
Note that it has indisputable that Covid is airborne since March of 2020, when the choir outbreak in Mt. Vernon, Washington occurred. (Also, the whole droplet theory put forward by public health experts gets the physics of particle sizes and how long they remain in the air wrong)
If indeed “immunity debt” is the result of too few infections, and lasts for years, would it follow that not only airborne but other mitigations should be avoided? Should kids drink untreated water, consume unpasteurized milk, and stop washing their hands? This might seem like a good way to strengthen children’s immune systems -- were it not for the fact that we know what happens without hygiene: prior to 1850, before these advances in science and sanitation, roughly 50% of children died before their 15th birthday.
Yes, but wearing masks is uncomfortable, don't you know.
Wear a fucking mask, and put them on your kids!
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In the absence of public health measures to limit transmission, repeated waves of infection will continually surge through the population, driven by the evolution of new variants and the waning population immunity from infection and vaccines. If you are lucky, your most recent vaccine will offer you some protection against being infected, but this protection varies from one person to the next and lasts only for a few months.
Don’t get us wrong, the vaccines are very important, but their main benefit at this point is to decrease the risk of ending up in hospital, in the ICU, or dying. They also diminish, but don’t eliminate, the longer term risks to your health, which are also severe outcomes, as anyone who has developed Long COVID will tell you. These long-term effects are shockingly common, and rising as our population gets reinfected over and over, as both the STAT Canada and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec reports showed.………
One of us (T. Ryan Gregory) coined the term “immunity theft” to describe the negative impact of SARS-CoV-2 on the immune system.
Also, lung damage, heart damage, a correlation to early onset cancers, and cognitive impairment.
At the risk of repeating myself:
Wear a fucking mask, and put them on your kids!
More and more evidence is accumulating that the virus damages our immune system, making us more vulnerable to future infections. Crucially, T cells, a class of white blood cells in our body that play a vital role in our body’s defence against other infectious diseases, are depleted and exhausted, even with mild COVID-19 infections. Some of this effect seems to come from the SARS-CoV-2 virus directly infecting these cells.
Simply put, COVID-19 infections weaken our immune systems. This makes us more prone to reinfection with SARS-CoV-2, infections with other viruses (e.g. RSV), reactivation of dormant viral infections (e.g. shingles, Herpes-Zoster virus), bacterial infections (Group A strep,TB) and even rare fungal infections. To make matters worse, the infections themselves may also be more severe. Being infected with SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses or bacteria at the same time can also make things worse, in adults as well as children.
It should be noted here that two of the three the authors of this OP/ED, Doctors. Lyne Filiatrault and Arijit Chakravarty are medical doctors, and the third, T. Ryan Gregory, is a PhD evolutionary biology.
Let me leave you with one thought:
Wear a fucking mask, and put them on your kids!
Also, avoid poorly ventilated public areas.
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