By: Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner
One of the greatest sins of our government’s approach to the COVID pandemic has been its oppressive treatment of children. Lockdowns, remote-learning and other mitigation policies have stunted the mental, physical, social and emotional development of children for two years. Research and coverage from NPR, New York Times, the Atlantic and other media increasingly show the damage to children has been enormous, though we won’t know the full impact for decades.
Kids were forced to endure the worst of the pandemic despite data consistently showing they were at near-zero risk from COVID and that they weren’t much of a danger to anybody else in school settings. The government still wants vaccinations for children under 5 years old.
Now, it turns out, the CDC overestimated the already-limited danger to children. The agency officially cut the number of nationwide child COVID deaths by 24 percent last week, down to 1,341. The reduction was part of a larger data correction that cut 72,277 deaths from the nationwide COVID death count. The agency blamed its overcounting on a “coding error.”
It’s yet another mistake that’s bound to reduce what little public confidence remains in the CDC. Unfortunately, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the IDPH have blindly followed the CDC’s guidance throughout most of the pandemic.
The reality is that none of the data the CDC has ever put out justified the harsh restrictions on children. Even the agency’s early data showed that just 1 out of every 34,000 kids under the age of 19 would die from COVID, for a survival rate of 99.997 percent.
And Illinois’ own historical two-year data for 0 to 19 year olds – 39 COVID deaths in 685,000 cases – shows a case-survivability rate of 99.994 percent.
This latest correction by the CDC should raise questions in the minds of the lawmakers, unions, and officials who whole-heartedly supported the worst restrictions on children.
But we doubt it will.
Read more from Wirepoints about children, schools and COVID:
- Seven facts parents and teachers should know about the risks of reopening CPS
- Every Illinois school parent, teacher should know these COVID-19 facts
- School Closings, Sports And A Tragic Suicide At An Illinois High School
- True inequality: In-class education at Chicago’s Catholic schools but remote learning at public schools
- Are masks still needed in Illinois schools?
- Lies, damn lies and COVID statistics: Using data to justify Illinois’ mask mandate
- The Delta variant and its limited impact on Illinois children
- Hey, Pritzker, leave them kids alone
- No “gathering outside the home” extends into winter break, school administrators tell parents
- Indefensible: Vilification And Hectoring To Vaccinate Children Expands
- Politics Getting Bad For Those Using Children As Human Covid Shields
- The Mask Is Off: Illinois Has No Science Behind Its School Masking Mandate
- The Better Government Association’s Fact-Check On Masking School Kids is Wrong And Irresponsible
- No school mask mandate for now: Illinois legislative committee blocks Pritzker’s emergency rule
- Chicago Teachers Union appeased yet again. CPS agreed to mask Chicago’s 330,000 students through August 2022
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
All data scientists know this isn’t an “oops”, it’s corrupt manipulation. And there’s more coming…
https://brownstone.org/articles/cdc-promotes-another-misleading-mask-study/
The biggest mistake was promoting masks in lieu of exercise and a healthy diet. The fit and healthy stood a much better chance at beating COVID than the obese.
Somebody should tell JB
Will I see this anywhere but Wirepoints? Not likely. The liberal progressive media is fully complicit in the fraud being perpetrated on this country.
Expecting politicians to admit their mistakes is folly. And with an election season upon us, even less likely. No way Putzker will say, “I foolishly followed CDC guidance without question.” The voters, however, should put 2 and 2 together. CDC misrepresented and deceived us. Politicians did the same. Our kids suffered as a result. We vote you out! Let’s see come November . . .
Why should we accept this excuse of a *coding error*, instead of attributing it to incompetence…?
It is one of the ironies of government service, the more incompetent, the higher you rise…
Imagine if an accounting firm made a *coding error* of this magnitude…
They’d be ruined…
But it’s only affecting decisions about our healthcare, so no harm no foul…?
“Coding error,miscalulation”?-bulljive,everything from the CDC was intentional to try to scare everyone who cant think outside the box or see the big picture into complying!-Im still seeing a few mopes and dopes wearing masks in thier car or walking down the sidewalk by themselves.SHAME on the weak minded parents who fell for this
The stunning death tolls were reported for one reason, to cripple President Trump at election time. In the interim president biden has failed miserably in everything his administration has done. Mean tweets vs total incompetence and failure.