Masks?

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(08-24-2021, 03:56 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Worse than the Vietnam era?  We don't have celebrities flying to Afghanistan, posing with American POW's or being photographed sitting in an AA gun.  But it's certainly the worse it's been in my forty-seven years.

I get Leonard's point, which is that in the grand scheme of things this pandemic is not anywhere near on the scale of WW2, or the 1920's pandemic for that matter.  But I also agree with you that the way Leonard is phrasing it does appear to minimize the psychological damage many kids will have from the lockdowns.  I don't think that was his intent at all though.

Only minimizing it from the original position of "forever scarred" and the country being "forever ruined". Is it great? No. It also isn't going to end their existence. I have 8 nieces and nephews and they're doing pretty alright. They'll probably grow up to be more prone to use a mask during flu season and consume more hand sanitizer than previous generations, sure. But making this out to be some kind of future crippling situation is a bit over dramatic.

Honestly I think the bigger concern for the generation than psychological damage is how big of an educational gap there will be between kids who had a parent at home who consistently engaged with them on continuing to learn over the parts of 2 school years that they were at home and those who didn't. I imagine there'll be a fair amount of 5-8-year-olds who are well behind on their literacy rate compared to their peers later in life.