h/t to @RichardfromSyd1 for highlighting this one. The UK infected: - nearly half of its babies under 1 -…

h/t to @RichardfromSyd1 for highlighting this one. The UK infected: - nearly half of its babies under 1 - nearly 60% of its toddlers aged 1-4 - 81% of its children aged 5-14. Something I want to understand. A short thread. /1 #auspol #covid19aus https://t.co/b6IvvpTRxE

Some medical professionals are very casual about child infection, manifested in a range of ways, such as saying school is more important than avoiding infection, and not agitating for even basic PH measures in these schools. Or now, demanding a level of caution…/2

…in vaccine approval for children that appears completely absent in the acceptance of mass infection of the young. Is this the old Hippocratic ‘do no harm’ thing, where as a physician you shouldn’t harm anybody by your actions? But then it’s fine to allow them to be harmed…/3

…in other ways, such as by infection? Or is it more venal than that, and some medical professionals are wearing their political hearts on their sleeves, backing their ‘side’. The conservative side of politics, which sees getting kids into fish bowl schools to be infected as…/4

…an article of faith? To get the Economy going again. A type of initiation rite for entry to this conservative medico-political group? Or is this the wider social/political/cultural thing of basically just screwing the young in every possible way? They can’t afford…/5

…even a roof over their heads, have insecure and underpaid jobs etc. Look at that breakdown of infections across the age groups again. A perfect indication of where society’s priorities lie? Maybe it’s all of the above. /end https://t.co/Pa7haU57Iv