Why should I prove something I never said?
If you don’t know what the conversation was about between me and Jay Jay stay out if it.
The answer is simple really, We have spent 18 months now isolating our kids, social distancing, masking, and now RSV is making a comeback and it is hitting kids hard, because they have largely been protected from getting exposed to RSV. So sure, it’s like people who all of a sudden are having horrible allergies…Last summer we were largely wearing Masks…this summer we were not. MY allergies have been horrible…because I have not worn a mask since April.
We are exposing our selves to knew things again. RSV just happens to be one of them.
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Did you even think before you posted this?
The OP began this thread literally linking to a story about this issue from NBC. He later added several other links. Other posters have added links. Google ‘RSV outbreak’ right now, and tell me how many current news articles you get.
No one measures the severity of any medical-related outbreak to the number of articles out there that cover it. No one with any common sense anyways.
RSV is an annual virus that hits us every single damn year (if you ever paid attention in the past). The reason this particular outbreak is newsworthy is two-fold. First, it coincides with another respiratory virus that is circulating that is having devastating effects on our population, and the newest variant is far more aggressive towards the same people in the age groups that run higher risks from RSV. Secondly, this is not the normal time-frame we typically see RSV outbreaks. So yeah, those two factors make this more concerning than years past.
But go ahead… imply your damn conspiracies. It is so easy to take a few minutes, do some quick research, and then extract a multiple of possible, rational explanations. But for some, it’s much more easy to be intellectually lazy and imply this is just another nefarious thing in the works.
Did you ever think before you posted that rant you still don’t know what debate me and Jay Jay were having. You don’t even know my beliefs on it since I haven’t posted it genius.
Well yeah, I did actually. See, as I was reading the thread, I came upon your response to @JayJay up around #29. You asked then how many COVID articles did they have in the same time frame. You asked again in multiple posts to show the proof. Stupidly, I assumed this was the subject of the debate. Was I wrong?
You don’t need to state your beliefs. Your general position is abundantly clear based on that first post alone… we don’t necessarily need all the details.
Yes you are wrong and you have no clue what my general position is.
GWH said it best
So to be clear, in your discussion with @JayJay, you are NOT asking him to provide proof that there are equivalent news articles of the recent RSV outbreak as compared to COVID?
Also, thanks for editing to lazily lift that piece from @GWH at the end there. Since you’re so interested, explain to me why moonshine’s post was included in my back-and-forth with GWH when I never once interacted with moonshine? Furthermore, how does that mesh with the sequencing of posts, according to GWH?
FYI, anyone can see these posts for themselves and the order they were posted in. Just trying to help a fella out 
how completely classless
It appears from various articles, though, the increase in RSV numbers is largely in southeastern states.
The mask requirement, for most businesses at least, was dropped in Massachusetts. Kids generally weren’t avoiding each other when school was remote, hanging out together outdoors & in each others’ homes.
Yet we’re not seeing much of an increase in RSV numbers here, maybe a slight increase in testing, but that’s usually a problem sought in children under two years old with respiratory symptoms.
I wonder what’s driving the increase in southeastern states in particular.
At least I am not comparing covid to sniffles among the unvaxxed.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mississippi-gov-refuses-school-mask-210413894.html
Allan
for most, that’s exactly what it is. are you upset that so few children get seriously ill? seems like you are.
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Try telling that to the mother of the 13 year old that died.
Allan
you mean the one you so callously used to get a “gotcha”? yeah, tell it to her. and tell the thousands of mothers who’s children die of the flu every year that the flu is under control while you’re at it.
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Biden said he’d cure everything on the debate stage!
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But your boy Biden said he’d cure all of this! Wait he lied?
If you have doctors that can’t conduct the appropriate test and tell the two apart they have no business being doctors. The test may be similar but it’s easy enough to conduct them and tell the two viri apart.
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did we wear masks before covid to protect from rsv?
did rsv hospitalizations fill pediatric icu’s before covid?
if wearing masks “protected” kids from diseases like rsv, which were not much of a threat before covid has led to them becoming more dangerous, and possibly developing new variants themselves if they spread enough, in what way did putting a mask on a kid that had little to fear from covid to begin with, “protect them”?
masking kids was a mistake from the beginning.
Yes, I have no doubt that the hospitals know whether children have COVID or RSV.
The question is whether stories in the national news outlets bother to mention RSV when they discuss the number of children in hospitals.
Do they end up leaving a false impression that COVID is the only factor? That appears to be the case for many national news stories.
The record for pediatric flu deaths in a year is 2017-18 when there were 188.
That’s the record.
Before the Delta wave which seems to be hitting children harder, there were 350 pediatric deaths from COVID.
So…twice as many as the flu RECORD.
