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> a darwinian process of discovering... There's certainly a darwinian process going on with COVID-19 right now in regards to the vaccinated and willfully unvac
by riskable 5y ago
> a darwinian process of discovering...
There's certainly a darwinian process going on with COVID-19 right now in regards to the vaccinated and willfully unvaccinated. What's not darwinian is what went on during lockdowns where well-off parents could afford to let one stay at home to keep their kids from goofing off while attending online classes.
I am unhopeful that society at large will use that as a lesson learned about providing resources to the less fortunate so their children can get the (online) education they need (even if it's just an adult keeping watch over a handful of kids). If we have another pandemic with lockdowns like this I highly suspect it will go pretty much exactly the same.
To be fully prepared for pandemics of the future families will need the resources necessary to keep an adult at home to watch over the children going through online learning. Giving people remote work opportunities could be a great (societal) inoculation, as it were against such inequities.