It's Past Time To Stop Treating Healthy Kids Like They're Sick

[TBoneTX 45,469]

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It's Past Time To Stop Treating Healthy Kids Like They're Sick

BY: RICH CROMWELL - JANUARY 25, 2022

 

Prior to Covid, parents used to joke about kids being germ warfare labs, little perpetually snotty vectors who share anything and everything at school and the playground.  There was truth to it.  Any parent who has sent his kid to daycare or school for the first time is acutely aware of how many germs they catch, spread, and defeat during the first few months.  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/25/its-past-time-to-stop-treating-healthy-kids-like-theyre-sick/  

 

 

[Dashinka 24,584]

Creating a generation of children with little to no immunity to anything.

[milimelo 4,494]

My son's Montessori school in Europe did not require masks for any kids (this is 1-6 yo). No virus outbreaks, no issues at all. I'm even sending him back to the same city for summer school which is STEM type morning followed by outing (golf, horseback riding, hiking, rock climbing, tennis) - no masks no shots needed. 

At the new post I decided to homeschool so he wouldn't be all day under a mask (and the school last I heard was highly recommending kids' shots which is yet another thing I won't inflict upon my child). Until these mask mandates go away he will be homeschooled. 

 

European airlines seem to be miles better than the US when it comes to kids and masks - only 12+ I believe need to wear masks. We just traveled last week and neither Austrian or Lufthansa said a word for my and other folks' unmasked children. Though Austrian is a bit worse for adults with their FFP2 masks wearing at all times including in the airport. Didn't need more than a medical mask on Lufthansa and their kids playground on Frankfurt airport was up and running. 

[PGA 247]

10 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Creating a generation of children with little to no immunity to anything.

I wish I could "heart" this a million times.... I was just thinking about this issue this morning, how many of the diseases of long-ago (or maybe not so long ago) are going to come back to haunt the kids of today....specifically the 0-4 year-olds who haven't been able to build immunity because they're locked up at home or wearing a mask 24/7.... just a thought.

[LIBrty4all 3,754]

I ate dirt, because "dirt didn't hurt" when I was a kid.  And still haven't gotten covid, though I am often in public places without a mask.  Good luck, or a strong immune system?  Dunno.

[PGA 247]

3 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

I ate dirt, because "dirt didn't hurt" when I was a kid.  And still haven't gotten covid, though I am often in public places without a mask.  Good luck, or a strong immune system?  Dunno.

I ate dirt...drank water from the hose and sat in the back of my dad's '69 Chevy stepside pickup where you could see the passing pavement through the floorboards because it was a rust bucket....

[TBoneTX 45,469]

3 hours ago, LIBrty4all said:

I ate dirt

My best hyskool buddy used to eat yellow snow.

[Dashinka 24,584]

14 hours ago, LIBrty4all said:

I ate dirt, because "dirt didn't hurt" when I was a kid.  And still haven't gotten covid, though I am often in public places without a mask.  Good luck, or a strong immune system?  Dunno.

I ate a whole lot of dirt as a kid.  I have also traveled all over the world exposing myself to a great deal of stuff.  I still am curious why we see so many upticks in things like childhood allergies now days.  I do not remember ever encountering anyone with say a peanut/nut allergy when I was a kid.

[seekingthetruth 1,248]

3 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

I ate a whole lot of dirt as a kid.  I have also traveled all over the world exposing myself

When browsing unread topics and you were the last poster, this is what I saw for the topic preview 🤣

[Dashinka 24,584]

3 minutes ago, seekingthetruth said:

When browsing unread topics and you were the last poster, this is what I saw for the topic preview 🤣

Yeah, that does not look very good! 

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,469]

16 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Yeah, that does not look very good!

...if the naked truth be known.

[LIBrty4all 3,754]

16 hours ago, seekingthetruth said:

When browsing unread topics and you were the last poster, this is what I saw for the topic preview 🤣

Nothing but the nekkid truth from our friend Dashinka!!

8 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

...if the naked truth be known.

Well dayum...

[milimelo 4,494]

18 hours ago, Dashinka said:

I ate a whole lot of dirt as a kid.  I have also traveled all over the world exposing myself to a great deal of stuff.  I still am curious why we see so many upticks in things like childhood allergies now days.  I do not remember ever encountering anyone with say a peanut/nut allergy when I was a kid.

My personal opinion is because in the US they wouldn't give peanut based products to the babies before they were 2 years old. I understand the chocking hazard but there are other peanut-based forms to start off of. I grew up on the puffed peanut based flips - see pic below and so have all my friends - no allergies. US was so adamant against introduction to peanuts (Which are not nuts) that you now have kids with anaphylaxis to peanuts. When both my kids were born we introduced peanuts by 6 months (peanut butter in breast milk) - no allergies. I think the US is finally starting to wake up now and they're starting to say to introduce peanuts before 2 years. 

[LIBrty4all 3,754]

Peanut allergies are just nature's way of culling the weak from the herd.  Nothing new to see here, just a variation on other methods.

[Dashinka 24,584]

2 minutes ago, LIBrty4all said:

Peanut allergies are just nature's way of culling the weak from the herd.  Nothing new to see here, just a variation on other methods.

Darwin taught us that.