<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 2:44 PM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:46 PM Dylan Distasio <<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com" target="_blank">interzone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Here's another reason they have hesitancy...Public health agencies have lost credibility by not actually "following the science."   Not a single child in the US under the age of 18 has died of CV-19 without a serious pre-existing condition </i></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/21/johns-hopkins-team-there-are-still-zero-covid-deaths-among-healthy-kids/" target="_blank">https://thefederalist.com/2021/07/21/johns-hopkins-team-there-are-still-zero-covid-deaths-among-healthy-kids/</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">First of all<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> the article you <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">cite</span> is a year old</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what you're talking about.  Both the Federalist piece and the WSJ OpEd by Johns Hopkins researchers referenced are from today.   They are not a year old and are current.   I suppose you will ignore Johns Hopkins research because it doesn't agree with your narrative.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:large"> And children can certainly become infected with COVID-19 even if they don't show any symptoms and thus give the disease to other people.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>There is not substantial evidence of younger children easily spreading CV-19 or appreciably impacting community spread , but if you're vaccinated, you have nothing to worry about either way, right?  Right?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">By the way<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>Dylan<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, you're not a kid, have you been vaccinated? </span></font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My vaccination status is none of your business so I'm not sure why you're asking.   It has zero to do with the risk calculation around vaccinating children.</div></div></div>