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  I’m still haunted by my conservative friends who insisted in 2020 that “kids don’t get COVID.” That was always a lie, but they believed it. They still believe it. Facts don’t matter and they do not care. Dead children didn’t convince them when it was guns. Dead kids won’t convince them when it’s a virus. How tragic. How pointlessly tragic.
context: I remember the huge lines of parents  in FL taking their kids to a shady chiropractor to get them mask exemption letters for $50 a pop. >
  
  "Covid-19 deaths displace influenza and pneumonia, becoming the top cause of death caused by any infectious or respiratory disease. 
  It caused “substantially” more deaths than any vaccine-preventable disease historically,
  the researchers wrote."