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by MatteoFrigo 1609 days ago
> hundreds of kids too

I keep hearing this statement, but I find it hard to reconcile it with hard data. For example, credible numbers from Europe https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps show that the excess mortality in the 0-14 age range was actually negative in 2020, and in a normal range in 2021 (slightly higher than 2017 and 2018 but lower than in 2019). Certainly by looking at the weekly 0-14 chart it is impossible to say that there is anything nefarious going on.

The US CDC site was harder to navigate, but last time I looked, it painted a similar picture.

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On global statistics, the deaths of hundreds of kids is almost negligible, so you are unlikely to see much difference in excess mortality. Significant differences are most likely the result of school closure and lockdowns, most likely traffic-related.

But deaths by vaccines are even more negligible than deaths by covid.