Between August of 2020 and August of 2021, the CDC reports 1,790 kids nationwide were hospitalized for COVID19. That’s 0.0024 percent of all kids under 18 in America over an entire year.
According to the CDC, only 8 kids died from COVID over 12 months. The odds of a hospitalized child – as slim as that is – dying of COVID19? That would be 0.44%. Divide that mortality rate by the 73 million kids, and COVID19 represents a 0.00001% threat to children in America.
We don’t have data on comorbidities but based on everything we know, no typically healthy child needs to fear hospitalization or death.
Mandatory masks and vaccination, though? Really.
Locally, we did even better.
New Hampshire has roughly 291,000 residents nineteen or younger. In the period ending Sept 7th, New Hampshire reports 30 residents under the age of 20 who had a positive COVID test in the hospital or 0.01% of that population. In eighteen months, no one under 20 in NH died from COVID19.
That’s 0.0000000%.
Want to bust some more myths?
Minorities are not over-represented among those dying from this particular Coronavirus in the Granite State. According to NH DHHS, the Latinos (3.9% of the state population) account for 2.7% of mortality. Black or African Americans (1.4% of the state population) account for 1.3% of deaths. Other 1.8%/1.4% of deaths, and Asians 3.0% and only 1% of deaths.
White residents account for 90% of the population and 93.6% of deaths. And men are more likely to die from COVID than women. 96% of all lost life with COVID, as reported, were among residents over 60. Almost 93% of those were over 70, and 76% of those were in long-term care facilities.
One more point. The Londonderry School System has glommed onto a program to test every child every week.
To do this, they need consent, and they’ve got a guide that helps schools get it.
I have no idea how much Londonderry is paying for this, but any amount is too much. High-Risk kids can stay home or use NH’s Education freedom account options to pay for remote, homes schooling, or other distance learning options.
Even after months of Delta and other variants, even the CDC has acknowledged that this virus is not a threat to kids under 20 years of age, especially here in New Hampshire.
Parents, your schools have COVID tunnel vision, and they are wasting your money and trying to trick you into consenting to not just testing that isn’t necessary but the culture it creates.
