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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t understand the argument that parents are making about how their children “need to see their friends” so schools should open. It’s like people have blinders on and refuse to acknowledge that isolation is literally the only way to control the spread of the virus. Of course your children are isolated. If they aren’t, you’re not doing it right. Does it suck? Yes. Does dying alone gasping for air on a ventilator also suck? Yes.

Further, if you really think it’s safe for groups of people to gather together, nothing is stopping you from allowing your child to hang out with their friends. Nothing. It doesn’t mean we need to endanger thousands of people who actually care about mitigation and preventing the spread of the new variants (and further mutation of the virus). Do people not understand that we could wind up with vaccine resistant strains and prolong the pandemic by YEARS by refusing to comply with social distancing? I’m so sick of living this way because some people refuse to make ANY sacrifices. [/quote]

Yeah, you need to take it down a notch. [/quote]

Yeah, literally most of the parents here were talking about how their children were making great sacrifices in a critical period of their lives. Children as a whole are giving up the most during the pandemic. These are documented and increasing harms. At some point, you have to consider whether responsible adults should be making potential sacrifices in support of the actual sacrifices of children, who lack agency here.[/quote]

yeah i know people here are super protective of adult lives in one profession, but we have knowledge of the health outcomes for children with lower educational attainment. Lower education is a significant factor in a reduced lifespan. this is know. probably this won't be your child, but i encourage you to think outside of yourselves.

it is time to compare the ongoing and increasing actual harm to a generation of children versus the potential for harm to a small number of adults. a moral thinker will come down on the side of those experiencing actual, accumulated harm.

or, said another way, if you don't come down on the side of the children, you're not thinking morally.[/quote]
You don’t get to ask other adults to sacrifice for your children. That’s outrageous. You’re free to sacrifice whatever you want for them. I’m not going to sacrifice my own health and abandon my children for yours. Dream on. [/quote]

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