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[quote=Anonymous]Giving people the benefit of the doubt, most don’t realize that resilience has a very specific meaning in clinical contexts, including the pandemic.  One problem is when people mean “flexible” and instead they say “resilient.”  Another is that too many people *don’t* understand the stress/trauma for children associated with the pandemic, and the implications of that stress, and rationalize their decisions to do any number of things that contribute to that stress by telling themselves that “kids are resilient.”

Where I heard the latter most was around school-reopening decisions.  Generally: we don’t need to reopen schools because “kids are resilient,” which is utter horsesh*t.  (And don’t get me started in how these same people are now pleading for “time” because they’re “anxious” about taking their masks off outside.)

Many kids are resilient to bad things that happen to them, in the appropriate meaning of the word.  But even if many are, we can’t ignore those who are not just to make ourselves feel better.[/quote]

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