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[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]

I agree with both of these sentiments.  I feel duped for trying to be a good human and follow the public health rules.  Only to have the goal posts constantly moved, get strangely more restrictive post-vaccine, but executed in an inconsistent manner.  Example:  Bars and restaurants?  We’re opening those $$.  Schools?  Nope. Too dangerous.

Huh?

Protests for COVID restrictions?  Super spreader event.  Protests because of racial inequity?  Those are ok because racial inequity is a bigger public health problem.

Huh?  But it’s still a protest!?  (Look it up, the public health experts actually said this)

And I’m no conservative.  Not even close.

So… where this leads me is my current state.  I also don’t trust “experts” at the moment.  Experts are just humans with opinions that are based on current knowledge of a particular field, but they aren’t smarter and they certainly aren’t clairvoyant. In fact, many of the public health foot soldiers are young and inexperienced and just repeating what was in their text books.

I also don’t trust teacher’s unions, school boards nor any politician of any stripes from any party.  All of these people are also just regular old humans.  No special edge, vision or insight.  In fact, many of them seem quite dumb in retrospect.

Jaded.  Someone else said that.  That’s what it is for me.  Jaded.

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Schools WERE open.[/quote]

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