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[quote=Anonymous][quote]+1 It is amazing what COVID has done to the brains of people who understand nothing about statistics.[/quote]

Agree with all of you (I posted upthread as well) but I don’t think Covid did this. People like PP would be like this no matter what. Covid has revealed the people who are are, by nature, self-centered and controlling of others, and given them what they believe to be a fool proof reason to be this way out loud in a socially approved way. And I say this as a pro-mask, pro-vaccine, parent who dutifully kept my under 5 kid home and taught her to wear a mask, to stop spread and protect vulnerable people. But PP is an example of someone who will continue to center herself and her family in the Covid narrative because she is not ready to give up her specialness and start working with her community to find a way forward that makes sense and doesn’t overburden the youngest members of our community.

Also, I guarantee if her 3yo spends 2 full years masking daily, she will suddenly be talking about the dangers of prolonged masking on language and social development in ECE kids. Part of this is that her child is too young to have actually born the brunt of precautions for long, so she’s still in a November 2020 mindset “this isn’t that bad, we can do this for a while if it keeps people safe.” Her kid probably hasn’t come home from school to report no one in her class, including the teacher, can hear her or understand her. Her kid probably hasn’t developed worrisome ideas like “If you get Covid, you die!” like my kid did in the fall, just as half our extended family got Omicron. PP does not yet really understand  the costs of intensive Covid precautions for this age group. She just knows her kid doesn’t complain about wearing a mask and has friends. Well that was my kid too. A year ago. I feel differently about it now.[/quote]

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