It is kinda weird that pediatric hospitals are like filling up partly with RSV patients but nobody cares about that. That one's acceptable (even tho it kills more children than covid every year) 🤔
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) September 1, 2021
In my experience people fixate on one thing and panic about that, no matter its relative or absolute risk. During the 1980s, it was the aptly-named Satanic Panic for a while, then it was crack babies. Etc.
These days, it’s Covid in kids, even though the risk there is minimal. What’ll it be next? I am sure something silly and mostly-irrelevant as it always is.