Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:04:37 +1100
Andrew Pam <xanni [at] glasswings.com.au>
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381807043_False_divisions_and_dubious_equivalencies_Children's_rights_during_the_COVID-19_pandemic>
"In January 2022, nearly two years after the declaration of the COVID-19
pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), millions of students,
educators, and parents around the world, including in the United States (US)
protested that no student should have to risk their health for education
(Pinsker 2022) However, many Western governments—led by Sweden, the United
Kingdom (UK), and the US—have chosen to ignore calls for public health and
safety. As Sweden adopted the least protective approach to community
transmission, contrarian physicians in the US and UK advanced the anomalous
Swedish example for in-person schooling without mitigations, particularly as
soon as pediatric COVID-19 vaccines were in sight. Despite proving false for
previously-vaccinated age groups, the most controversial and oft-mistaken
contrarians—inexpert in social or behavioral sciences—claimed that ending
school masking requirements would incentivize parents to vaccinate younger
children, whose vaccine uptake never reached adequate levels despite the
implementation of this advice (MSNBC 2022). Public admissions of such mistakes
have never led to correcting the policies based on them. Instead, the lack of
health and safety in schools resulting from zero-mitigation policies continues
to cause great physical and psychosocial harms to children and families.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic—the worst global health crisis in over a
century—at least 10.5 million children in the world have lost a parent or
caregiver to COVID-19, tens of thousands of children have died, and millions
have suffered disability (Bellandi 2022; UNICEF 2022). The pathway of SARS 2
infection is through the respiratory system, but COVID-19 (or COVID) is a
multisystemic, vascular, and neurotropic disease with immunological effects
that often renders survivors vulnerable to other infections and morbidities
(Smadja et al. 2021; Temgoua et al. 2020; Zhou et al. 2020). Although the vast
majority of those infected live past the initial, acute phase of infection,
survivors of COVID-19 are at substantial and cumulative risk for Post-Acute
Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also known as Long COVID, regardless of age,
vaccination, or health status (Iacurci 2022)."
Via Violet Blue’s Pandemic Roundup: October 24, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-114604843
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
"In January 2022, nearly two years after the declaration of the COVID-19
pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), millions of students,
educators, and parents around the world, including in the United States (US)
protested that no student should have to risk their health for education
(Pinsker 2022) However, many Western governments—led by Sweden, the United
Kingdom (UK), and the US—have chosen to ignore calls for public health and
safety. As Sweden adopted the least protective approach to community
transmission, contrarian physicians in the US and UK advanced the anomalous
Swedish example for in-person schooling without mitigations, particularly as
soon as pediatric COVID-19 vaccines were in sight. Despite proving false for
previously-vaccinated age groups, the most controversial and oft-mistaken
contrarians—inexpert in social or behavioral sciences—claimed that ending
school masking requirements would incentivize parents to vaccinate younger
children, whose vaccine uptake never reached adequate levels despite the
implementation of this advice (MSNBC 2022). Public admissions of such mistakes
have never led to correcting the policies based on them. Instead, the lack of
health and safety in schools resulting from zero-mitigation policies continues
to cause great physical and psychosocial harms to children and families.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic—the worst global health crisis in over a
century—at least 10.5 million children in the world have lost a parent or
caregiver to COVID-19, tens of thousands of children have died, and millions
have suffered disability (Bellandi 2022; UNICEF 2022). The pathway of SARS 2
infection is through the respiratory system, but COVID-19 (or COVID) is a
multisystemic, vascular, and neurotropic disease with immunological effects
that often renders survivors vulnerable to other infections and morbidities
(Smadja et al. 2021; Temgoua et al. 2020; Zhou et al. 2020). Although the vast
majority of those infected live past the initial, acute phase of infection,
survivors of COVID-19 are at substantial and cumulative risk for Post-Acute
Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also known as Long COVID, regardless of age,
vaccination, or health status (Iacurci 2022)."
Via Violet Blue’s Pandemic Roundup: October 24, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-114604843
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
