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Courtney
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🚫DMs, this isn’t Tinder
Do we think there’s any hope the new ACIP members will listen?
June 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Yes. So that’s kind of what I’m saying. If I limit the data pull too much, I won’t catch entry errors. In your suicide example, if I say, “only give me data for kids 4y+ at DOD,” but a 6 mo old was mis-coded as a suicide death, no one will catch and correct it.
May 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I wonder if our difference of opinion here comes down to how our diff jobs handle the data. I have the authority to correct the records. Maybe your role is more purely analysis?
May 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Wouldn’t you review the data first and then assess anomalies and outliers? If a person AMAB shows up in a dataset on pregnancy complications, I’m going to look closer. Was the wrong sex noted? Was the wrong ICD 10 code noted? Limiting the data prior to review can cause you to miss data entry errors.
May 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“Pediatric has many definitions,” to me, reads very differently than “certain *types* of pediatric firearm deaths may be more or less common within *specific age bands* of the pediatric population.” If the latter was what you intended to communicate, then I agree.
May 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
That is a valuable clarification which you did not make before in your original comment.
May 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I want to bring back to the forefront that this all started with your assertion that there are different definitions of “pediatric.” Instead of going back and forth dozens of times, how about you just lay out your point? Take as much time as you need — it’s Mother’s Day and I’m reading in a hammock.
May 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So let’s have the convo hypothetically w/o defining, e.g., “at an age where deliberate suicide is improbable.”
May 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
For your consideration: medicine.washu.edu/news/young-k...

15 years ago, we would’ve said this age group doesn’t really understand death as permanent. Newer research says that’s not the case, esp in kids with suicidal ideation.
Young kids with suicidal thoughts understand concept of death
Study refutes idea that children who talk about suicide don’t understand it
medicine.washu.edu
May 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Suicide is too complex a topic and act to set an arbitrary age, especially given the increases in the under-12 pop. Determination of whether a death is accidental or intentional has to be based on multiple circumstances, not just a child’s age.
May 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Suicide is an extremely complex topic, but you’d have to go younger than that. There is existing research on suicidality that includes 4-6 year olds. But I’m curious why you’re so focused on whether young kids can commit by firearms, rather than the broader issue of unnecessary ped death by firearm.
May 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We can. Can we agree that whether a toddler accidentally fires a gun or a teenager dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, it was a needless death caused that could have been prevented from occurring in that manner if the gun owner had properly secured their weapon?
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Only if you can agree that any firearm suicide by a teen is the direct result of an adult’s failure to follow basic gun safety practices and procedures.
May 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
That weapon is a poor choice for home defense. Just as likely to blow granny away through the wall in the next room.

I’ll give it to you, and we’ll say the overwhelming majority of pediatric gun deaths are a result of someone’s failure to follow basic gun safety.
May 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
No, you have an example where an 18 year old died. That’s an adult.
May 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I want to encourage you to consider that comments have a character limit and you should read *both* of someone’s replies before you insult their reading comprehension abilities.
May 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
So you don’t think that children who are killed with firearms while they are committing a crime should count as child firearm deaths?
May 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
And, if you’d like to bring up the 2 unnamed juveniles referenced in the article, tell me:

1. Where does it say they were armed?
2. If we assume they are armed, how did two children, too young to legally purchase their own firearms, obtain said weapons?
May 8, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Nick, Nick, Nick… I see you finally unblocked me, after leaving this comment and blocking me so it would appear you stunned me speechless. Nice try!

The would-be burglar was 18. Not a child — a legal adult. I can see, now, why you chose to put “children” in quotation marks.
May 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Oh, Dump is big mad that they didn’t let Barron in 🤣🤣🤣
May 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Got it. I’ll stick with my Aura, then. I’ve yet to find anything that’s fits me better in the last 5 years, and if the VFlex is larger, I’ll bet it likely wouldn’t fit me as well.
May 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
And is there a VFlex above an N95 (99 or 100?) or did you switch to that because you get a better seal or find it more breathable?
May 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Auras are my go-to if I’m going to spend any significant amount of time indoors, and I have an Aranet 4 that I take in my bag if I’m going to be anywhere crowded indoors. Out of curiosity, what is your ppm threshold to switch from Aura to something more protective?
May 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM