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“Years of life saved” is the wrong metric - the one we need to optimize for is sum quality-of-life * years across the population. We stole a few years of young
by rogerrogerr 1y ago
“Years of life saved” is the wrong metric - the one we need to optimize for is sum quality-of-life * years across the population.
We stole a few years of young people’s _highest_ quality of life, and in many cases saddled them with long term academic deficits, to save a few years of older people’s lowest quality of life. It’s a morally reprehensible decision when looked at from a high level.
- bdangubic 1y agoWe stole a few years you from Australia? :) my kid’s school was closed for a quarter. and the rest of it is on parents, my kid actually progressed academically during covid and socialized with numerous other kids. was not ideal but also not some earth-shaddering thing if a kid had right parents
- ben_w 1y agoMy memories of school were of nothing special happening there. I wouldn't have missed anything if I'd needed to learn remotely. And that was an era before smartphones and social connection via multiplayer games and everyone (not just me) being terminally online. As an adult, I even found my quality of life actually went up during the lockdowns.