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Maybe there's a subtler way to shoehorn a projection of your unrelated pet topic into the discussion?

• rapjr9 2y ago
  So kids are not human and can't decide they don't like being told what to do?
• Gud 2y ago
  I think the parent poster has a good point. Last year I was at a wedding for one of my best friends - his distant niece, who was ~17 during the pandemic, told me, she could not attend her own graduation ceremony. For nearly two years, she could not see her friends. Before the pandemic, this would have been considered a disaster for the individual. Now we are supposed to just shrug our shoulders and accept this new totalitarianism.
  • shiroiushi 2y ago
    The whole point of it all was to slow the spread of the disease, protect society's most vulnerable members (the older/sicker people), and especially, keep the healthcare system from collapsing due to too many people getting sick all at once. If a pandemic like this happens again, we should probably take a different approach, and put the old people into protected communities, separate from others and with measures to keep infection out (outsiders have to wear biohazard suits when entering the protected area). Or perhaps put the kids into their own boarding schools separate from others.
    • Maxious 2y ago
      >"Trust has also been eroded, and many of the measures taken during COVID-19 are unlikely to be accepted by the population again" > "The striking conclusion, I think, from this report is that right now we are arguably worse-placed as a country to deal with a pandemic than we were in early 2020," [health minister] said, citing the erosion of public trust. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-29/covid-response-review-released/104531920 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-29/covid-response-review...
    • Gud 2y ago
      Essentially, life was stolen from the young to give to the elderly.