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Parents were mostly fine from it in the end. Look by all means lockdowns made a lot of sense early on in the face of an unknown disease. I hope we can all agree
by oneoff786 4y ago
Parents were mostly fine from it in the end. Look by all means lockdowns made a lot of sense early on in the face of an unknown disease. I hope we can all agree they no longer make sense for Covid.
- micromacrofoot 4y agoIn the US 200,000+ children lost caregivers to covid. So technically most were fine, but that's also not a number to scoff at. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200000-us-children-lost-parent-caregiver-covid-efforts-help-haphazard-rcna16140 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200000-us-children-lost...
- oneoff786 4y agoThat seems… impossible? There’s been about 70k deaths in the range of 20-49. What’s a child? What’s a caregiver? I’d also point out it’s not “technically most” it’s 99.7%
- micromacrofoot 4y agoIt's from this study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01253-8/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Children are people under 18. > We considered parents and custodial grandparents as primary caregivers, and co-residing grandparents or older kin (aged 60–84 years) as secondary caregivers. Lot of kids are raised by their grandparents.