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> Again, what I am saying is that younger people are hit by the lockdown much more than the elders while being the less concerned about the virus itself. The p

> Again, what I am saying is that younger people are hit by the lockdown much more than the elders while being the less concerned about the virus itself. The problem with saying this is that it's incorrect. Many elders suffer during lockdown in the exact same ways and in some cases to the exact same extent that younger people do, including in the ways you imagine: socially, sexually, economically. Additionally, there are many young people (many of them here on HN) who do just fine during lockdown because WFH and online interaction actually promote their senses of well being. [0] The insistence with which you have been asserting that young people are being "punished" reveals adherence to an agenda more than an evenhanded analysis of the facts. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821256

nitrogen 7y ago
The insistence with which you have been asserting that young people are being "punished" reveals adherence to an agenda more than an evenhanded analysis of the facts. I don't think that's fair to the OP. They seem to me to just be describing what they see and feel. In a cold, utilitarian sense, the ripple effects from messing up a young life are many times more significant. If schooling, work, romance, and childbearing of young people are all disrupted, you can expect to see that in the economy for decades to come (just look at the name "baby boomers" for the opposite case). But, again in the cold utilitarian sense, if the life of someone with 10-20 years left is disrupted, that disruption doesn't last as long.