4 year old Galveston child succumbs to Covid

Sadly, you KNOW someone is going to.

I spent last weekend with a friend who is a nurse at a children's hospital in Houston. She literally was in tears as she talked about how heartbreaking it is to see what is happening. She said that anyone who actually works in hospitals, seeing children suffer like this, would never in a million years be anti-Covid vaccination. Sadly, everyone seems to think "it's not going to happen to ME and MY family!"

It's heartbreaking and maddening.

That is awful. That poor child.

This is so sad. This little girl's death was a needless result of neglect and stupidity on the part of her parents. May she rest with angels.

This is just so awful. And preventable.

Poor little girl. How heartbreaking. As some of you know, I do genealogy work and have for years seen more child deaths from things we now vaccinate for than I could possibly list. In this case, children cannot yet be vaccinated, but it's still heartbreaking to think that she may have escaped exposure had the adults around her opted for the vaccination that was available to them.

While to the normal, rational thinking person this is horribly sad, for way too many people this isn't even a blip on their radar.  If school shootings haven't changed people this won't either.

That poor child, how tragic 

The comments are appalling.  People seriously should be ashamed of themselves. 

"“It’s serious, and we never could have believed this could happen,” Harwood said."

Exactly.

The rabid right-to-lifers only care about life up until birth. After that the kid and mom are on their own. 

I feel horrible a child has passed, but I just don't have a lot of sympathy for those who refuse to get vaccinated, who believe the hospitals are overflowing, for those who think this is all fake news and then someone gets sick and dies. I am going to reserve my sympathy for the family who masked up, got the jab, and really did the best they could to keep their family as safe as they could, and yet still someone got sick and passed.

I am disgusted that I can partition my heart like that, but that's where I'm at.

This is so scary to read as a parent. But I am forcing myself to not just yank my 11 year old out of school. I've started trying to find little things that make me feel better. I read that on average 200 kids die from flu per year and last year there was only one flu death. So I felt better somehow that maybe less kids died from that even though more than I want to think about died from covid. Also my kids always wear their seat belts and don't have access to firearms in the home. So somehow that comforts my mom heart. It's just so sad to lose any kid and imagine how bad that family must feel. But as parents we face the threat of mortality of our dear ones all the time and thank goodness it is a lot better than it used to be.

Also I'm pretending the vaccine will be authorized for kids soon, like by the end of September. On very little evidence. Yes, I am using Pollyanna thinking.