Really sad-so many kids have gained weight during covid

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how this is the school’s fault. This sounds like yet another thing parents don’t want to take responsibility for. It’s not sanctimonious to tell parents to parent.

And if you're a single mom, you live in a one bedroom apartment with two kids in a not-nice neighborhood, you don't have a car, you work 30 hours a week at Walmart and 20 hours a week at a gas station?

I don’t think all the fat kids belong to the single moms.

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Anonymous wrote:Worse than flu, but the interventions have harmed the vulnerable population, and the least vulnerable population has paid a high price. It’s the worst of both worlds.

100% agree and the interventions haven't even worked and may be making it worse. For example, what kind of evolutionary pressure is mass mask wearing going to put on the virus? To make it insanely infectious.

This is literally not how any of this works.

Yeah that seems like junk science. But so does masking kids.

Do either of you care to defend this notion given the general principles of natural selection and the fact the UK variant is in fact more transmissible?

The UK is doing great now due to vaccines. No deaths in London. Cases in UK flat, deaths way down.

And parents in UK actually fought masking in schools. They will be out of this mess before we are. They are vaccinating people faster, delaying 2nd dose. And kids having some normalcy.

Do you know anyone in the UK? My BFF's high schooler just went back to school a couple weeks ago, they had been 100% virtual since then. Her area (not London) just approved outdoor gatherings larger than six people. They have been MUCH more cautious in other areas which is why they were able to open schools. People on DCUM only hear the pieces they want to hear. I would be thrilled to have had schools open and everything else locked down, I would have preferred that, but the vast majority of Americans are selfish assholes who need their bars and guns, so it didn't happen.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m very fat with high blood pressure. Had Covid. It was like a bad pollen day for two days. We have canceled kids lives and ruined their health for basically the flu.

You are one anecdote. Here's another: I am very fat but with normal blood pressure. I had Covid and was bedridden with a high fever, terrible cough, and breathing difficulties for two weeks. It was much, much, much worse than any flu I've ever had. It took me a month before I was back to my regular stamina. Also three months later, half my hair fell out, so that was fun.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m very fat with high blood pressure. Had Covid. It was like a bad pollen day for two days. We have canceled kids lives and ruined their health for basically the flu.

You are one anecdote. Here's another: I am very fat but with normal blood pressure. I had Covid and was bedridden with a high fever, terrible cough, and breathing difficulties for two weeks. It was much, much, much worse than any flu I've ever had. It took me a month before I was back to my regular stamina. Also three months later, half my hair fell out, so that was fun.

So why is your anecdote more valid than hers?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the parent's fault, not public schools. I run with my teen girl 4 days a week. It is our together time. My 5 yo is in gymnastics, Tball and we also exercise her regularly. It is also the parents fault for allowing them to eat ridiculous amounts of junk and fast food to keep them out of your hair. Children and adult's need strict eating time's to adhere too. We get 3 meals and 1 healthy snack is allowed. Water only and my husband and I allow wine one night a week. Restraint people!

This thread isn’t about your dogs, ma’am.

(But if you’re actually talking about human children, your oblivious points were addressed well before you dropped your amazing truth bomb on this thread... you sanctimonious idiot. And holy shit learn how to use an apostrophe.)

You pop are the crazy one. Touch a nerve? You are probably 400# and have 200# middle schooler's and give the kids fast food because they have challenges during covid and miss friends. Why don't you refrain from cursing?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the parent's fault, not public schools. I run with my teen girl 4 days a week. It is our together time. My 5 yo is in gymnastics, Tball and we also exercise her regularly. It is also the parents fault for allowing them to eat ridiculous amounts of junk and fast food to keep them out of your hair. Children and adult's need strict eating time's to adhere too. We get 3 meals and 1 healthy snack is allowed. Water only and my husband and I allow wine one night a week. Restraint people!

This thread isn’t about your dogs, ma’am.

(But if you’re actually talking about human children, your oblivious points were addressed well before you dropped your amazing truth bomb on this thread... you sanctimonious idiot. And holy shit learn how to use an apostrophe.)

You pop are the crazy one. Touch a nerve? You are probably 400# and have 200# middle schooler's and give the kids fast food because they have challenges during covid and miss friends. Why don't you refrain from cursing?

STILL not quite getting that apostrophe correct...

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how this is the school’s fault. This sounds like yet another thing parents don’t want to take responsibility for. It’s not sanctimonious to tell parents to parent.

And if you're a single mom, you live in a one bedroom apartment with two kids in a not-nice neighborhood, you don't have a car, you work 30 hours a week at Walmart and 20 hours a week at a gas station?

Are you speaking as the person you described?

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There's so many ways to get exercise. A few lbs? Better than deaths. Let's not tack this on the impact of COVID.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how this is the school’s fault. This sounds like yet another thing parents don’t want to take responsibility for. It’s not sanctimonious to tell parents to parent.

And if you're a single mom, you live in a one bedroom apartment with two kids in a not-nice neighborhood, you don't have a car, you work 30 hours a week at Walmart and 20 hours a week at a gas station?

Are you speaking as the person you described?

No actually I am a SAHM and my DH worked evenings so I could take DS out in the middle of winter when there was still daylight. Unlike you, I care about other people and I realize our society is composed of families not like mine and when people suffer they weaken society as a whole. This is the society we will be passing to our children and grandchildren. I don't want to live in a society where people are fat and unhealthy and depressed and health insurance is $800 a month and going up every year.

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Anonymous wrote:There's so many ways to get exercise. A few lbs? Better than deaths. Let's not tack this on the impact of COVID.

It is an impact of covid. Another one to add to the list.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the parent's fault, not public schools. I run with my teen girl 4 days a week. It is our together time. My 5 yo is in gymnastics, Tball and we also exercise her regularly. It is also the parents fault for allowing them to eat ridiculous amounts of junk and fast food to keep them out of your hair. Children and adult's need strict eating time's to adhere too. We get 3 meals and 1 healthy snack is allowed. Water only and my husband and I allow wine one night a week. Restraint people!

You tell your active teen they aren’t “allowed” to have more than one snack per day? That seems neurotic

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Anonymous wrote:This is the parent's fault, not public schools. I run with my teen girl 4 days a week. It is our together time. My 5 yo is in gymnastics, Tball and we also exercise her regularly. It is also the parents fault for allowing them to eat ridiculous amounts of junk and fast food to keep them out of your hair. Children and adult's need strict eating time's to adhere too. We get 3 meals and 1 healthy snack is allowed. Water only and my husband and I allow wine one night a week. Restraint people!

This thread isn’t about your dogs, ma’am.

(But if you’re actually talking about human children, your oblivious points were addressed well before you dropped your amazing truth bomb on this thread... you sanctimonious idiot. And holy shit learn how to use an apostrophe.)

You pop are the crazy one. Touch a nerve? You are probably 400# and have 200# middle schooler's and give the kids fast food because they have challenges during covid and miss friends. Why don't you refrain from cursing?

STILL not quite getting that apostrophe correct...

Well, I mus'tve hit a nerve.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m very fat with high blood pressure. Had Covid. It was like a bad pollen day for two days. We have canceled kids lives and ruined their health for basically the flu.

I'm so glad you didn't suffer long term consequences or die, but, as you know, millions of other people did not have a good outcome. COVID is not just another flu.

Actually the flu is more dangerous for many people than covid.

True for kids.

Kids are not the only ones in the school buildings. Teachers, Aide’s, admin, security, nurses, janitors, food service workers.

They have been vaccinated by now. Spread is low in school anyway. Teachers are more likely to get infected outside of school. Kids don’t spread it to teachers. Teachers can Zoom from their rooms for staff meetings.

Spread in school is low, even without masks. The jig is up, as another poster said.

https://statsiq.co1.qualtrics.com/public-dashboard/v0/dashboard/5f78e5d4de521a001036f78e#/dashboard/5f78e5d4de521a001036f78e?pageId=Page_ffb4dc52-5543-46b2-8126-2b7229fd1b17

But they weren't, for a very very long time. Sorry little Billy's favorite sport was cancelled in the meantime. But none of them truly matter anyway, right? They're just tools in little Billy's life.

The jig is up, indeed.

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It is an issue of wealth/privilege. Kids with in-person private school, or with nannies or SAH parents who can take them out during the week, and non-stressed parents who can take them out on weekends benefit vastly. I feel badly for many of my friends who have to spend their weekends cooking and cleaning and catching up on work (with their children entertained by screens) because they don’t have sufficient childcare during the week. It just sucks.

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Anonymous wrote:How does one kick a soccer ball alone? Don’t you need someone to kick it back to you? And how is that cardio, exactly?

Why can't you be out there with your kid? Why would you send a kid to play by himself?

DP. I don't know. Maybe the person was doing their paid job that they couldn't do during the day while supervising DL? I'm fortunate that my kids are older and self-sufficient, but if I had to do my job and supervise three kids during DL, running outside to kick a soccer ball would not be that appealing to me.

God almighty, the excuses are so absurd. How many hours are there in a day? A week? You don't work or sleep all of those hours. You can make time to kick a soccer ball for 30 mins with your kids. PRIORITIES.