Every time I read the NH Union Leader’s Tag line, I laugh. The state’s “biggest” newspaper reminds us that “There is nothin as Powerful as Truth.” How about not reporting it? That’s pretty powerful and has become the rule rather than the exception among New Hampshire “media.”
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With few exceptions, you will be hard-pressed to find any regular reporting in New Hampshire (in print, radio, TV news, or digital) about how COVID19 is no threat to kids. You’ll find it on our pages, over at LibertyBlockNH, and from groups like ReOpen and RebuildNH, but that’s it.
It’s embarrassing because it is a truth so powerful that it can end depression, improve mental and physical health, and save lives.
If you are under 20 and test positive in the state of New Hampshire, you have nothing to fear from this flu. After ten months, your odds of being hospitalized are a tenth of one percent, and your chance of dying is zero.
If you are under 40, you have nothing to fear from this flu. Your odds of hospitalization are three-tenths of one percent, your chance of dying is one-one hundredth of a percent.
If you are under 60 in New Hampshire, you have a 1.2% chance of hospitalization and a one-tenth of a percent chance of dying.
Related: Hammers and Nails: Stop Treating COVID As If it is Equally Dangerous to Everybody.
You don’t need to distance, use plexiglass, or wear masks and the only people who need not attend are those with respiratory conditions or other high-risk comorbidities. That probably means that 99% of the education industrial complex and its charges should be back to normal, and the science says it’s true.
This was known as far back as July of 2020. “There is virtually zero risk for children getting something serious or dying from this disease. Anyone who thinks schools should be closed is not talking about the children. …“There’s no rational reason or science to say that children transmit the disease significantly.”
Why doesn’t every parent and student in the state know this?
There is actually no shortage of science to support this, the most recent of which comes to us from Duke University and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The paper, to be published in the Journal Pediatrics (Local copy here), traced 11 school districts and 90,000 students and staff. The result?
We examined 11 school districts with nearly 100,000 students/staff open for 9 weeks of in-person instruction, tracking secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2; within-school infections were extremely rare. Each case was independently adjudicated for community or within-school acquisition by local health departments.
If you look at NH’s COVID19 Schools page, they claim the level of transmission is substantial. That is true for the flu every year, but statistically, this flu is less dangerous than most, not just in severity but transmissibility.
However, the political recoil and fire command is to sequester kids away in quarantine and subject their family and peers to fearmongering, testing, and confinement in lieu of test results that mean nothing.
While the ‘health effects’ of COVID are minimal as to be negligible, what of the political response?
That’s more truth ignored or under-reported; the political response is more dangerous to the health of our kids than the damn virus. “Compared with 2019, the proportion of mental health-related visits for children aged 5–11 and 12–17 years increased approximately 24%. and 31% respectively.”
The power of truth is not that exists but that it is shared. We’ve done that. Can anyone in NH Media make the same claim?
