| RolStoppable said: Yes, absolutely. All of your examples, except burying your grandparents as a kid, were extreme ones that more than 99% of the kids weren't going to suffer. And the one example that wasn't extreme wasn't uncommon even before COVID-19. |
I guess that's were we disagree then.
My youngest is afraid to go to school because he fears killing his immunocompromised mother. Afraid because the school never did their work to make the classrooms safer, stopped contact tracing and now testing is no longer available. What they did do is send him home into Covid quarantine because he had a stomach ache... The second day he was back in school. The stomach ache was all stress of course, great way to scare my kid even more. Brave enough to go back while his mom still can't go anywhere because Omicron is still all around.
His brother is no better off. He has to skip yet another birthday party getting left out. The parents of his friend are anti-vaxxers, don't believe in Covid, can't go there. My wife just feels immense guilt for not being strong enough to survive covid.
It sucks, but it would have sucked a lot more losing their mother, and losing my wife to a preventable disease. I'm glad they still have their grand parents for the necessary break now and then. They couldn't see their nephew for a while since he lives with a couple teenagers that didn't take it seriously. Self-responsibility is not enough, you are responsible for all the people around you in society.
Without the measures it would be far more than 1% that would have been affected by the loss of loved one.
This is NY with all the measures we've 'had to endure' https://projects.thecity.nyc/covid-19-deaths/
There was not right answer, only wrong ones. Whether we picked the least wrong one, dunno. In my opinion we should have done more so we could have had much shorter lock downs. But that's mostly from my personal situation. I'm sure there are a lot of people that lost their jobs and/or livelihood from the pandemic. They would likely have been better off with stricter shorter lock downs as well, but that's just my view on the situation.
