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Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

As someone with an older kid who is not doing well following the pandemic and whose spouse lost most of their income, I still found it funny. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

I don't have young kids, but this has to ring true for parents of younger kids.

On a serious note, reading all of the comments on this forum and all over social media about poor parenting during the pandemic, this hits on a great point, which is how COVID policies made things extraordinarily difficult for parents (even if the decisions were 100% correct), yet we want to blame parenting for childrens' struggles now.

Plenty of people wanted to blame parents for kid's pandemic struggles when it was unfolding, too. I remember posting on DCUM about our challenges with finding childcare and preschool for our then-toddler when DC closed schools in fall 2020 and we were scrambling to find something. I remember noting in one of my posts that I was worried my kid was developing anxiety issues with all the changes in schedule and also being at home with two really stressed out parents all the time, and getting numerous responses that were like "that's on you, stop putting your anxiety on your kid" or "just hire a nanny, stop being cheap." At the time I was regularly working until 2 or 3 am because it was the only time to get work done and just barely hanging on by a thread, but plenty of people had ZERO empathy for how hard that situation was for people with young kids and so many schools closed and daycares and preschools with limited space or really abbreviated hours.

It does feel good to laugh about it now via something like this sketch, if only because it highlights the absurdity of this era in our lives.

Oh that was the prolific “school is not childcare” poster. She has no children and is clinically insane.

Lol “What do they eat?”

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

As someone with an older kid who is not doing well following the pandemic and whose spouse lost most of their income, I still found it funny. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

I don't have young kids, but this has to ring true for parents of younger kids.

On a serious note, reading all of the comments on this forum and all over social media about poor parenting during the pandemic, this hits on a great point, which is how COVID policies made things extraordinarily difficult for parents (even if the decisions were 100% correct), yet we want to blame parenting for childrens' struggles now.

Plenty of people wanted to blame parents for kid's pandemic struggles when it was unfolding, too. I remember posting on DCUM about our challenges with finding childcare and preschool for our then-toddler when DC closed schools in fall 2020 and we were scrambling to find something. I remember noting in one of my posts that I was worried my kid was developing anxiety issues with all the changes in schedule and also being at home with two really stressed out parents all the time, and getting numerous responses that were like "that's on you, stop putting your anxiety on your kid" or "just hire a nanny, stop being cheap." At the time I was regularly working until 2 or 3 am because it was the only time to get work done and just barely hanging on by a thread, but plenty of people had ZERO empathy for how hard that situation was for people with young kids and so many schools closed and daycares and preschools with limited space or really abbreviated hours.

It does feel good to laugh about it now via something like this sketch, if only because it highlights the absurdity of this era in our lives.

I thought it was funny and very true.

I just want to kiss you for providing a link.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

As someone with an older kid who is not doing well following the pandemic and whose spouse lost most of their income, I still found it funny. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying.

I don't have young kids, but this has to ring true for parents of younger kids.

On a serious note, reading all of the comments on this forum and all over social media about poor parenting during the pandemic, this hits on a great point, which is how COVID policies made things extraordinarily difficult for parents (even if the decisions were 100% correct), yet we want to blame parenting for childrens' struggles now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

+1 it’s definitely super insensitive to the people whose lives were ruined by Covid one way or another. Not just by death but long term health and mental health issues, job loss, financial insecurity, etc. I bet these people are not laughing.

That's hilarious!

I think so many of us are still struggling with ptsd from our kids being home with no daycare, no school and we still had to work nonstop (to pay those pesky bills). I just still haven't been able to really get back to the non anxious, non stressed out place I used to be. It was the worst time in my life and there wasn't any help at all. I see so many things that I do now and I can pinpoint their start to covid.

My parents watched our kids for 2 nights recently and that was nice to be able to get away, but then the house was so trashed and everything was so backlogged that it took a few weeks to dig out.

Anonymous wrote:So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619

Funny but also has a distinct feeling that this was way too soon. A million families lost people to this f..ing virus, including me, so they need to be careful.

Loved it. I was relieved to see something funny on SNL.

I prayed for COVID last year when working in education sucked so bad. When did I finally get it? The Monday after school ended.

So true!

We are living this.

So Funny!!!!

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/covid-commercial/NBCE682053619