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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

NP. You highlight what has caused is shift in my worldview from which I am having trouble recovering. You think that people went "overboard" by following public health advice, taking COVID seriously as a health risk, and trying to do their part to avoid spreading it when certain members of the community were at greater risk. Your "overboard" was my trying to be a decent human being. The new narrative is that any fallout from restricted activities or isolation was self-inflicted and, therefore, not worth acknowledging or addressing.

I'll say that my view of "experts" in various realms has become increasingly distrustful. This is particularly true with those in public health and education, where experts offered assurances that were solely focused on maintaining desired outcomes without honest acknowledgment or discussion of potential long-term consequences. [/quote]

At some point common sense should have been restored. Some of the measures and actions were ridiculous and should have been obvious. Children never needed to be banned from playgrounds, masks weren’t needed on solo runs in suburban neighborhoods. I lived in a place where police were called on kids playing at a park. So we moved. A whole lot of this never made much sense and shockingly a lot of people blindly followed along and gleefully shamed their neighbors who weren’t in lock step. It’s hard to muster sympathy now.[/quote]

So you are happy that people are having trouble rebuilding their lives because they tried to control and shame others. [/quote]
NP here
Fixed it for you.

[b]And yes, I for one am very happy at ANY misery brought upon those who tried to force others into isolation, unwanted vaccinations, and other horrors.   They fully deserve it.[/b]
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This is exactly why it's hard to move on. People who are angry about COVID restrictions believe that anyone who followed them is equally as responsible for the measures and their consequences as those who made the decisions. Yes, every single person who tried to avoid contracting and spreading COVID was actively policing the activities of others, reporting them to authorities, lobbying for more and longer restrictions, and otherwise trying to make your life miserable. ALL OF US. We did nothing but try to ruin your life for more than two years. We deserve to suffer.

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What exactly do you want here? If it’s sympathy and empathy you’re going about it the wrong way. You’re making things even worse for yourself.[/quote]

I think PP is saying to move the f-- on from whining about COVID restrictions. It's tiresome. Nasty (see the bolded). And pointless. The anti-science crowd saying things like the bolded and you're whining about the PP and lack of sympathy/empathy? That's. rich. [/quote]

So what do you want? Its a simple question. Do you want to rejoin society or keep spinning your wheels?[/quote]

What are you even talking about? My life is ongoing. I'm in society. Living life. Traveling. 
I believe my statement above was crystal clear. Your obfuscating for to make some point that only you seem to understand. [/quote]

Your point makes no sense because it's not clear which PP you're even talking about. Some of the people in here are complaining about the big shift and lack of acknowledgment for their "trauma". I think a lot of that was self inflicted. [b]If you wanted the schools closed for years, quit complaining about learning loss and then demanding empathy for your troubles[/b]. Because those same people didn't show a lot of empathy with parents who wanted in person school and were unsympathetically told schools were not daycare. So its rich now that people are like whatever, it's tiresome let's not talk about that, but feel bad for me because I can't move on from my "trauma" of sitting home in sweats for years.[/quote]

What if you didn't want schools to be closed for years? I guess those people are allowed to be angry because you seem pretty worked up.[/quote]

You're so worked up you're not even reading clearly. I bolded what I said since you skimmed and responded anyway.[/quote]

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