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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work in education and people who came of age and were still in K-12 or college during COVID are developmentally stunted. They don't seem to have coping or problem solving skills and ignore deadlines and have trouble taking initiative.[/quote]

We’re moving school districts next summer and are holding our daughter back - she’s young for her class and has diagnosed learning disabilities, and covid was a huge challenge to her learning.

I don’t know why it’s so difficult for people to acknowledge the intense trauma we all experienced.  Just because some of us coped better or were less materially affected does not invalidate other people’s experiences.  I guess that’s another fun legacy of covid: a notable decrease in empathy and compassion.  Ironically.[/quote]

But so much if it was self inflicted. That doesn’t make everyone a victim. People went way overboard and now have to suffer the consequences.[/quote]

This. Exactly. There is no excuse, for example, for young people to think at all now about covid, let alone still be anxious about it in any way. If your kids are still afflicted by covid worry it is 100% the fault of their parents. [/quote]

While I agree with you, it's not so black and white.

I feel our family was very measured in our response to Covid. After April 2020, we were never in super shutdown mode and have been socializing, going to the grocery store, etc. all along. There have been times when our socializing has been mostly outside. We wore masks most of the time prior to vaccines (this was standard in our community and it was as much to help others as it was for ourselves). We got vaccinated when they were made available to us but we also didn't freak out when vaccines weren't available to us or our kids immediately. I think we're pretty middle of the road -- we took Covid seriously and are not anti-mask or anti-vaccine, but we're also measured and don't view Covid as some amorphous terror. We've also balanced concerns about Covid against believing it's important to be social and maintain family and community ties, to get out, etc.

BUT I still feel the impacts of Covid because we live in an area where a lot of people are very intense about it. [b]Our school is not back to normal, there is still a TON of anxiety around Covid in our community[/b], there's still a lot of very black-and-white thinking and prejudiced attitudes about it, some people are still very much defining themselves by their approach to Covid and evaluating others by theirs. It's crazy to me but here we are. We loved this area before Covid, now we're thinking about moving. Plus there are these other externalities that are worse since Covid -- crime is worse, teacher turnover at our school is worse, city services are worse. Then add in stuff like inflation... the idea that if you are just really balanced in your personal approach to Covid, then everything is great, assumes that everything around you is really balanced and easy too. It's not realistic. [/quote]

Where the he!! do you live that this is the case in October 2023??  If I were you I'd move.  They are clearly NEVER going back to normal.  [/quote]

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