Children are not exempt from COVID-19 long haul. The children that have stayed home from any risk of exposure are for the most part happy and healthy. That has been my experience as an Online Teaching Substitute. I think the children belong at home until the entire Pandemic is declared over and the coast is clear.
There needs to be aggressive accounting for the children that had COVID-19 and those with Long Haul Covid-19 with variants and which variant it is. Every city, town and hamlet in the USA needs to keep accurate statistics, so the US Government can begin to plan for intervention as more children become infected. Currently, children are the highest statistic in COVID-19 new onset illnesses.
Sending children back to a social setting is the worst idea anyone ever had. They need to be home and happy and healthy. Enough of this economic martyrdom. There is going to be a disabled society in greater numbers as the years pass. It is my estimation the youngest generation will have shortened longevity due to the damage caused by microscopic blood clots. Such microscopic damage most easily observed in "COVID Toes" cuts down on the residual life of any organ. The virus' microscopic blood clots sometimes turns into larger ones, but, the microscopic blood clots are just as deadly over time because the residual of any human organ that would provide longevity, is now reduced by these unseen clots.
I TOLD YOU SO!
By Stacy Weiner
When Haley Bryson’s post-COVID-19 symptoms began, (click here) they struck mightily. The 9-year-old from Manassas, Virginia, suffered headaches, earaches, exhaustion, soreness in her chest and throat, and stomach problems so bad they sent her to the emergency department twice. She quickly dropped 20 pounds from her 75-pound frame, according to her mom, Javanese Hailey.
The fourth grader — who previously reveled in performing handstands, cartwheels, and forward rolls — felt sick every day starting in August 2021, just a few weeks after a fairly quick recovery from COVID-19.
“I was really sad because being sick was preventing me from doing a lot of things I like to do” — even arts and craft projects, she says.
Haley, who’s been seen at the Post-COVID Care Program at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, since October, is feeling much better now. But before, she explains, “all I wanted to do was lay down because everything hurt so much.”
Although COVID-19 infections in children are usually not severe, even those with mild cases can suffer from long COVID-19 months later....
It has to be a nightmare for children and their parents with isolation and illness. Any pediatric floor or PICU must be a nightmare by now.
December 9, 2021
By Sheryl Gay Stoleberg
Courtney Grund, (click here) whose husband died of Covid-19 in August, got an alarming text message last week: Her 16-year-old son was “talking about self-harm,” according to the message, sent by his friend. She quickly signed him up for grief counseling, she said in a tearful interview, using her maiden name to protect his privacy.
John Jackson, a disabled veteran on a fixed income, said he had struggled to find help for his 14-year-old daughter, whose mother died in the pandemic. “I can see it in her, where she’s suffering,” he said.
Pamela Addison, a reading teacher whose husband died, said she felt fortunate that she could afford therapy — $200 a session out of pocket — for her grieving 3-year-old.
Although Congress has allocated trillions of dollars to combat the pandemic, including more than $100 million for existing children’s mental health programs Dand $122 billion for schools, the Biden administration and lawmakers have not yet created initiatives specifically for the tens of thousands of children who have lost parents and primary caregivers to Covid-19....
Mental health issues as well as disabiling outcomes are a real concern. The children that are already handicapped have it worse now. All those on "The Spectrum" are not going to do well while ill. I do not believe there is over-regulation anywhere, actually. Staying alive and healthy is the result of caution and regulation. There is nothing shameful in government being aware and acting to protect precious lives in the USA.
December 16, 2021
By Laura Rosen Cohen
As the parent of a severely disabled and non-verbal child, (click here) I've spent his entire life as a caregiver looking out for his medical, educational, social and equipment needs and ensuring he leads the most meaningful, healthy and safe life possible. More often than not, this requires hours advocating and negotiating with countless officials, educators and medical specialists. Some are incredibly kind, but many are unspeakably indifferent. It's soul sucking and relentless but the buck stops at me.
And pandemic over-regulation has made the challenges of my son's life infinitely harder—as it has the lives of countless other individuals with disabilities.
Throughout the pandemic, young children with autism and other special needs have been kicked off of flights, have been banned from flying, denied entry into museums, thrown out of bookstores and had their education stunted. They have been generally treated like loathsome vectors of disease, like contagiants....
