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You need to put it in the context of over 500,000 Americans dead from COVID. A proportion of which are directly and indirectly caused by the behaviour of young
by threeseed 6y ago
You need to put it in the context of over 500,000 Americans dead from COVID.
A proportion of which are directly and indirectly caused by the behaviour of young people.
So yes mental health of children is important but for many people not as important as staggering numbers of people dying.
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- frockington1 6y agoThat context makes it seem worse. We are making children lose an entire year of education because 0.1% of Americans died, most of which are old and fat. Should we shut down every year for obesity?
- threeseed 6y agoMost of them aren’t losing a year of education. Just face to face education.
- frockington1 6y agoTest scores are plummeting, particularly math. Damage like this will snowball for years
- jjeaff 6y agoSo will 500,000 early deaths. The psychological toll on families as well as the economic fallout.
- antiterra 6y agoAnalyzing the risk factors and suggesting a prioritization is very different than mocking people with valid concerns about children. The "caused by the behaviour of young people" thing is a weird non-sequitur. Are you suggesting 10-year-olds share culpability for spread caused by the spring break behavior of high-school students?