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As a recent highschool graduate, it is rather Unfortunate that many of my classmates seem to lack personal responsibility in the face of this pandemic. Worse, p

As a recent highschool graduate, it is rather Unfortunate that many of my classmates seem to lack personal responsibility in the face of this pandemic. Worse, parents and older adults are freely enabling it.

claudeganon 6y ago
No amount of “personal responsibility” is going to prevent an otherwise unchecked pandemic from further spreading where you have large numbers of young people clustered in housing and classes. This isn’t a problem of individual virtue, it’s an institutional failure across many levels that’s being blamed on its victims.
spideymans 6y ago
It's no surprise that a bunch of 18 year olds and twenty-somethings aren't particularly responsible. The leaders that decided to open these schools, largely for financial reasons, were undoubtedly aware that this would be the outcome.
tjs8rj 6y ago
I disagree that it is evidence of some "lacking of personal responsibility". There are many concerns here from the health of the elderly to the potential unknown long-term effects of Covid-19, and so on. Another is the potentially long-term effects economically on the new entrants to the job market due to shutdowns. We've seen the devastating effects and setbacks faced by millennials unfortunate enough to graduate during the Great Recession and found very few jobs in their fields. In other words, it's an important consideration: should the graduates and new entrants NOW, who are otherwise healthy adults capable of making their own risk assessments and caring for themselves, be by all means harshly economically impacted to ensure the safety of much older generations? Why can't we implement a scenario where the elderly are the ones locked inside with a check slid under their door while the rest of the world continues? What we currently have seems incredibly regressive: relatively well-off older generations holding the rest of the country hostage while the relatively poorer (and much less at risk) younger generations take the blow that may set them back for years or more. I recognize that this is a very nuanced topic, and I didn't give nearly enough detail and information here to really lay out a fully equipped argument, but the point stands: there are more costs here than just the disease, and they may be more grave than the debate seems to mention.

claudeganon 6y ago

No amount of “personal responsibility” is going to prevent an otherwise unchecked pandemic from further spreading where you have large numbers of young people clustered in housing and classes. This isn’t a problem of individual virtue, it’s an institutional failure across many levels that’s being blamed on its victims.

spideymans 6y ago

It's no surprise that a bunch of 18 year olds and twenty-somethings aren't particularly responsible. The leaders that decided to open these schools, largely for financial reasons, were undoubtedly aware that this would be the outcome.

tjs8rj 6y ago

I disagree that it is evidence of some "lacking of personal responsibility". There are many concerns here from the health of the elderly to the potential unknown long-term effects of Covid-19, and so on. Another is the potentially long-term effects economically on the new entrants to the job market due to shutdowns. We've seen the devastating effects and setbacks faced by millennials unfortunate enough to graduate during the Great Recession and found very few jobs in their fields. In other words, it's an important consideration: should the graduates and new entrants NOW, who are otherwise healthy adults capable of making their own risk assessments and caring for themselves, be by all means harshly economically impacted to ensure the safety of much older generations? Why can't we implement a scenario where the elderly are the ones locked inside with a check slid under their door while the rest of the world continues? What we currently have seems incredibly regressive: relatively well-off older generations holding the rest of the country hostage while the relatively poorer (and much less at risk) younger generations take the blow that may set them back for years or more. I recognize that this is a very nuanced topic, and I didn't give nearly enough detail and information here to really lay out a fully equipped argument, but the point stands: there are more costs here than just the disease, and they may be more grave than the debate seems to mention.