SNL Covid Skit

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Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

As someone with an older kid who is not doing well following the pandemic and whose spouse lost most of their income, I still found it funny. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

I don't have young kids, but this has to ring true for parents of younger kids.

On a serious note, reading all of the comments on this forum and all over social media about poor parenting during the pandemic, this hits on a great point, which is how COVID policies made things extraordinarily difficult for parents (even if the decisions were 100% correct), yet we want to blame parenting for childrens' struggles now.

Plenty of people wanted to blame parents for kid's pandemic struggles when it was unfolding, too. I remember posting on DCUM about our challenges with finding childcare and preschool for our then-toddler when DC closed schools in fall 2020 and we were scrambling to find something. I remember noting in one of my posts that I was worried my kid was developing anxiety issues with all the changes in schedule and also being at home with two really stressed out parents all the time, and getting numerous responses that were like "that's on you, stop putting your anxiety on your kid" or "just hire a nanny, stop being cheap." At the time I was regularly working until 2 or 3 am because it was the only time to get work done and just barely hanging on by a thread, but plenty of people had ZERO empathy for how hard that situation was for people with young kids and so many schools closed and daycares and preschools with limited space or really abbreviated hours.

It does feel good to laugh about it now via something like this sketch, if only because it highlights the absurdity of this era in our lives.

Oh that was the prolific “school is not childcare” poster. She has no children and is clinically insane.

I still have nightmares about that person. School is indeed childcare. Don't get me wrong, it's other things too. It's not pejorative or reducing teachers to babysitters to state a fact that school is childcare.

Ok, just had to get that out of my body. The SNL skit was exactly how I was feeling about trying to manage it all.

Oh, FFS, school is not childcare. It may eliminate the need for childcare in some situations, but the fact that you can use it instead of paying for childcare does not make it childcare.

Anyway. SNL seems to determined to have one bit every show that shows the rightward trend of its politics (see the Try Guys thing on a previous episode), but "What do they eat?" was a great line.

So at all times during the school day when learning is not taking place (recess, lunch, etc), parents are there to care for their children, right? Oh wait no, there are school personnel engaging in, wait for it…child care

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Anonymous wrote:Lol “What do they eat?”

Loved that part

But you just had covid last week? LOL

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I am the PP who said it was insensitive and I was a stand up comic before I had a family so it’s ironic to me that folks are saying you need to grow a thick skin. A comic can be snarky, make fun of people/things while ALSO using human empathy and sensitivity. I wouldn’t make jokes about 9/11 so why would I make a joke about purposely getting Covid which is a virus that has killed MILLIONS of people and is still killing people. I know someone who died triple vaccinated from this disease so yes, it’s too soon. What is problematic is that we live in a low empathy society that thinks it’s funny to mock torturous and painful deaths of the masses.

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who said it was insensitive and I was a stand up comic before I had a family so it’s ironic to me that folks are saying you need to grow a thick skin. A comic can be snarky, make fun of people/things while ALSO using human empathy and sensitivity. I wouldn’t make jokes about 9/11 so why would I make a joke about purposely getting Covid which is a virus that has killed MILLIONS of people and is still killing people. I know someone who died triple vaccinated from this disease so yes, it’s too soon. What is problematic is that we live in a low empathy society that thinks it’s funny to mock torturous and painful deaths of the masses.

I can see why you aren’t a stand up comic anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who said it was insensitive and I was a stand up comic before I had a family so it’s ironic to me that folks are saying you need to grow a thick skin. A comic can be snarky, make fun of people/things while ALSO using human empathy and sensitivity. I wouldn’t make jokes about 9/11 so why would I make a joke about purposely getting Covid which is a virus that has killed MILLIONS of people and is still killing people. I know someone who died triple vaccinated from this disease so yes, it’s too soon. What is problematic is that we live in a low empathy society that thinks it’s funny to mock torturous and painful deaths of the masses.

It’s funny. You are not.

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I’m a nanny and my employers have had covid 3 times. I’ve had to work all through their episodes and can’t wait until I get covid and can’t just stay home and do nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who said it was insensitive and I was a stand up comic before I had a family so it’s ironic to me that folks are saying you need to grow a thick skin. A comic can be snarky, make fun of people/things while ALSO using human empathy and sensitivity. I wouldn’t make jokes about 9/11 so why would I make a joke about purposely getting Covid which is a virus that has killed MILLIONS of people and is still killing people. I know someone who died triple vaccinated from this disease so yes, it’s too soon. What is problematic is that we live in a low empathy society that thinks it’s funny to mock torturous and painful deaths of the masses.

I can see why you aren’t a stand up comic anymore.

Right? Take a breath PP.

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Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

As someone with an older kid who is not doing well following the pandemic and whose spouse lost most of their income, I still found it funny. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

I don't have young kids, but this has to ring true for parents of younger kids.

On a serious note, reading all of the comments on this forum and all over social media about poor parenting during the pandemic, this hits on a great point, which is how COVID policies made things extraordinarily difficult for parents (even if the decisions were 100% correct), yet we want to blame parenting for childrens' struggles now.

Plenty of people wanted to blame parents for kid's pandemic struggles when it was unfolding, too. I remember posting on DCUM about our challenges with finding childcare and preschool for our then-toddler when DC closed schools in fall 2020 and we were scrambling to find something. I remember noting in one of my posts that I was worried my kid was developing anxiety issues with all the changes in schedule and also being at home with two really stressed out parents all the time, and getting numerous responses that were like "that's on you, stop putting your anxiety on your kid" or "just hire a nanny, stop being cheap." At the time I was regularly working until 2 or 3 am because it was the only time to get work done and just barely hanging on by a thread, but plenty of people had ZERO empathy for how hard that situation was for people with young kids and so many schools closed and daycares and preschools with limited space or really abbreviated hours.

It does feel good to laugh about it now via something like this sketch, if only because it highlights the absurdity of this era in our lives.

Oh that was the prolific “school is not childcare” poster. She has no children and is clinically insane.

I still have nightmares about that person. School is indeed childcare. Don't get me wrong, it's other things too. It's not pejorative or reducing teachers to babysitters to state a fact that school is childcare.

Ok, just had to get that out of my body. The SNL skit was exactly how I was feeling about trying to manage it all.

Oh, FFS, school is not childcare. It may eliminate the need for childcare in some situations, but the fact that you can use it instead of paying for childcare does not make it childcare.

Anyway. SNL seems to determined to have one bit every show that shows the rightward trend of its politics (see the Try Guys thing on a previous episode), but "What do they eat?" was a great line.

Oh, hey...there you are. If it eliminates the need for some other kind of childcare, then guess what...it's childcare. It's other things too. But yeah, still childcare.

If your kid is home from school sick, do you tell the teacher that you'll be sending them in another time to collect that childcare they missed?

Also, I am not "the" school is not childcare poster, but I suspect I'd like her.

Do you believe that all parents everywhere should have anticipated a global pandemic and saved up to pay for a nanny for 1.5 years while schools were closed? If so, you may just be mentally ill enough to get along with that poster.

No, I think the global pandemic exposed the many shortcomings in American society and the many ways schools and teachers were called upon to fill in those gaps. People seem entirely too eager to go back to the way things were just because they were able to get by on the patched-together system. It sucked for a lot of people for years, which means it was a problem even when it wasn't a problem for you. And it's still a problem.

The fact that you're using mental illness as an insult/punchline hybrid makes it clear that you learned nothing from this experience.

Not an insult or a punchline. I think a person who believes that every parent in America should have been financially prepared to hire a nanny for the duration of the pandemic is probably genuinely mentally ill.

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in our capitalistic society, two incomes are needed to get ahead in life. Period.

My mom was a schoolteacher. Her mother was a school teacher. My mother in law was a school teacher. My SIL is an elementary school teacher. I have LOTS of respect for the teaching profession.

And bc of the pandemic, how I saw women and families being treated, YES. School IS childcare. Women (by and large the defaulf parent) NEED childcare to help provide for their families. When the kids get school aged, society calls this form of childcare SCHOOL. Unfortunately, it does not cover the whole work day...but thats another rant for another time.

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I mean, I'd never get Covid on purpose. But I am absolutely at a place where I can laugh at this!

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Anonymous wrote:I am the PP who said it was insensitive and I was a stand up comic before I had a family so it’s ironic to me that folks are saying you need to grow a thick skin. A comic can be snarky, make fun of people/things while ALSO using human empathy and sensitivity. I wouldn’t make jokes about 9/11 so why would I make a joke about purposely getting Covid which is a virus that has killed MILLIONS of people and is still killing people. I know someone who died triple vaccinated from this disease so yes, it’s too soon. What is problematic is that we live in a low empathy society that thinks it’s funny to mock torturous and painful deaths of the masses.

Sometimes being serious about everything makes us unhappy.

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If they aired this a year ago, this forum would freak out.

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NOT FUNNY!!! MY MOM AND BEST FRIEND DIED FROM COVID!!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

As someone with an older kid who is not doing well following the pandemic and whose spouse lost most of their income, I still found it funny. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

I don't have young kids, but this has to ring true for parents of younger kids.

On a serious note, reading all of the comments on this forum and all over social media about poor parenting during the pandemic, this hits on a great point, which is how COVID policies made things extraordinarily difficult for parents (even if the decisions were 100% correct), yet we want to blame parenting for childrens' struggles now.

Plenty of people wanted to blame parents for kid's pandemic struggles when it was unfolding, too. I remember posting on DCUM about our challenges with finding childcare and preschool for our then-toddler when DC closed schools in fall 2020 and we were scrambling to find something. I remember noting in one of my posts that I was worried my kid was developing anxiety issues with all the changes in schedule and also being at home with two really stressed out parents all the time, and getting numerous responses that were like "that's on you, stop putting your anxiety on your kid" or "just hire a nanny, stop being cheap." At the time I was regularly working until 2 or 3 am because it was the only time to get work done and just barely hanging on by a thread, but plenty of people had ZERO empathy for how hard that situation was for people with young kids and so many schools closed and daycares and preschools with limited space or really abbreviated hours.

It does feel good to laugh about it now via something like this sketch, if only because it highlights the absurdity of this era in our lives.

Oh that was the prolific “school is not childcare” poster. She has no children and is clinically insane.

I still have nightmares about that person. School is indeed childcare. Don't get me wrong, it's other things too. It's not pejorative or reducing teachers to babysitters to state a fact that school is childcare.

Ok, just had to get that out of my body. The SNL skit was exactly how I was feeling about trying to manage it all.

Oh, FFS, school is not childcare. It may eliminate the need for childcare in some situations, but the fact that you can use it instead of paying for childcare does not make it childcare.

Anyway. SNL seems to determined to have one bit every show that shows the rightward trend of its politics (see the Try Guys thing on a previous episode), but "What do they eat?" was a great line.

Oh, hey...there you are. If it eliminates the need for some other kind of childcare, then guess what...it's childcare. It's other things too. But yeah, still childcare.

If your kid is home from school sick, do you tell the teacher that you'll be sending them in another time to collect that childcare they missed?

Also, I am not "the" school is not childcare poster, but I suspect I'd like her.

Do you believe that all parents everywhere should have anticipated a global pandemic and saved up to pay for a nanny for 1.5 years while schools were closed? If so, you may just be mentally ill enough to get along with that poster.

No, I think the global pandemic exposed the many shortcomings in American society and the many ways schools and teachers were called upon to fill in those gaps. People seem entirely too eager to go back to the way things were just because they were able to get by on the patched-together system. It sucked for a lot of people for years, which means it was a problem even when it wasn't a problem for you. And it's still a problem.

so. much. this. Why are we so eager to revert back to the way things were in 2019? We can move on from covid and use what we learned to do things differently moving forward. We don't have to regress.

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We're still in the throes of this virus whether we want to acknowledge it or not. It's funny, but it's too soon.