Post #1148086

2026-04-13 18:04 UTC

LW stalwart discovers kids get sniffles from daycare, obviously this means women have to stay at home to take care of kids and not work: www.lesswrong.com/posts/…/daycare-illnesses BTW almost every person born after 1970 in Sweden has been to daycare as a kid, if daycare illnesses had long-term consequences it would be showing up here

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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-04-13 22:05

Sweden is an interesting example because they pioneered the let-it-rip approach to COVID. That was less disastrous than it could have been but not great even in a country with a lot of detached housing and nuclear families. kevinmd.com/…/swedens-controversial-covid-19-stra… I would not have recommended putting children in daycare without strict indoor-air-quality standards between 2020 and 2024.

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@CinnasVerses@awful.systems 2026-04-13 21:55

They do have consequences! Crowded schools and preschools and daycare spread all kinds of dangerous infectious diseases and there are consequences of getting them. With the arrival of COVID and the decline in vaccination risks are rising. 'Getting sick builds resistance' is another of the folk medicine beliefs which we in the infection control community have been fighting since 2020. Some diseases are milder the second or third time, but generally you want to get as few infectious diseases as possible.

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