https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/research-links-covid-poo...
Oh, wait... repeat covid infections are much worse and even damage T cells similar to HIV.
Plus 1 in 5 covid infections result in long covid.
Are you really this dense or do you just enjoy arguing about COVID? The school closures were in response to COVID, you suitcase.
This sums it up. No recognition of there being adults in schools, of there being adults in the homes these children come back to, of Sweden’s substantially higher excess deaths, or of the deaths happening at the same time as the school closures.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
So roughly 14,000 years of life saved in Norway, even if they ended up dying within 2 years anyway.
We stole a few years of young people’s _highest_ quality of life, and in many cases saddled them with long term academic deficits, to save a few years of older people’s lowest quality of life. It’s a morally reprehensible decision when looked at from a high level.
you from Australia? :) my kid’s school was closed for a quarter. and the rest of it is on parents, my kid actually progressed academically during covid and socialized with numerous other kids. was not ideal but also not some earth-shaddering thing if a kid had right parents
As an adult, I even found my quality of life actually went up during the lockdowns.
We can only make the decisions we make with the information we have available in the moment, but it is important, later, to be honest with ourselves about the outcomes of the decisions we made and try to learn from them to improve decision making next time.
We shouldn't need to be defensive about this or that, we should follow the data, wherever it leads.
If it turns out the risk from spreading COVID wasn't worth the social and economic damage of lockdowns, that's an important data point to consider when making these kinds of decisions again.
pseudolus•9mo ago