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A child dies of pneumonia every 39 seconds

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Any of the covid deaths may have soon died anyways. It's been a rally cry for ignoring and neglecting safety guidelines, and it's over something that just isn't working. Especially now as the toll is on the rise for even for those under 40.
Source for that information?
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Source for that information?
It's been all over the news lately.
And what specifically? That under 40s are more common in the emergency room, or a reminder of those who think they'll be ok and emphasis it's "those who are probably going to die anyways" have been blowing off safety guidelines, think they'll be ok, and then end up severely and chronically ill and dead.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
A story behind one engine donated to my favorite museum....
A boy was starting it with the compression release open.
It fired, & he inhaled a flame.
Damaged lungs fill with fluid....nasty slow death, eh.
That is something I really don't want to find out for sure. It just sounds nasty and slow.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
It's been all over the news lately.
And what specifically? That under 40s are more common in the emergency room, or a reminder of those who think they'll be ok and emphasis it's "those who are probably going to die anyways" have been blowing off safety guidelines, think they'll be ok, and then end up severely and chronically ill and dead.
I'd rather look at the metrics and per capita first then sound like people are dropping dead in mass droves.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Why don't we make pneumonia vaccines mandatory and masks mandatory for pneumonia?

Pneumonia kills more children than any other infectious disease, claiming the lives of over 800,000 children under five every year, or around 2,200 every day. This includes over 153,000 newborns. Almost all of these deaths are preventable. Globally, there are over 1,400 cases of pneumonia per 100,000 children, or 1 case per 71 children every year, with the greatest incidence occurring in South Asia (2,500 cases per 100,000 children) and West and Central Africa (1,620 cases per 100,000 children).

Pneumonia in Children Statistics - UNICEF DATA
If by "we", you mean Ameristanians, then the reason
there's no mandatory vaccination here is because the
problem is elsewhere. (I looked at the map.)

Countries where it's a problem would do well to
vaccinate against it....if practical (some are poor).
But here?
We've bigger fish to fry, eg, Covid 19, which is a
pandemic urgently needing to be quelled.
 
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metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Our youngest daughter almost died of Pneumonia when she was three months old, and at the young age no vaccine would be given nor is there only one cause or type of pneumonia.
 

Terrywoodenpic

Oldest Heretic
It's been all over the news lately.
And what specifically? That under 40s are more common in the emergency room, or a reminder of those who think they'll be ok and emphasis it's "those who are probably going to die anyways" have been blowing off safety guidelines, think they'll be ok, and then end up severely and chronically ill and dead.

It is certainly true in the UK.
It is not that the under forties have suddenly become more vulnerable. but that the over forties have a higher percentage of vaccinations so are now unlikely to be hospitalised or die from covid.
Hospital beds are now largely filled with the under forties. a percentage of which die or become seriously ill.
However this is relative and only around 100 of all age groups are dying a day from covid now. many of which are under forty. (UK)
What is more severe is the number of much younger people that are suffering from long Covid. this is building up in hospitals and clinics because it continues to be a serious health problem months and may be years after the initial infection. The serious organ damage will probably continue to affect them for the rest of their lives.
Double Vaccination has been shown to massively reduce all these risks. in all age groups.

Though the highly infectious Delta virus is spreading rapidly, and infecting the previously infected and vaccinated and unvaccinated. Death and serious illness has been largely prevented by Vaccination.

As of last week Covid is back up to 1 in 9 of all deaths in England.
 
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