[conspire] COVID at the end of 2021

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022, at 12:14 PM, Syeed Ali wrote:
> Some additions.

> Thinking like a politician for a moment..
>
> Kids don't vote, so they don't directly matter.
>
> Parent's don't go to school any more, so they're fairly distant.
>
> The problem becomes the kids staying home driving voting parents insane.

Well, no. The problem is that the care required when Small Humans are at home means that people can't go back into the office. Or, if they normally work in a profession where WFH isn't possible (e.g., many aspects of nursing), that takes the parent(s) out of the labor force, hurting the economy.

We're deliberately endangering society as a whole for increased shareholder value.

> I know of one (1), have heard of another and have read a tentative study
> in the UK suggesting spontaneous development of diagnosed Tourette's.
> It's something like triple or more the diagnoses now, but what's
> worrying is the combination of age and gender; this is primarily
> diagnosed in very young boys but it's been appearing in teenage girls
> right around lockdown.

I have a friend with Tourette's (middle aged woman), and I wouldn't wish her challenges on anyone. :( She's a psychologist, though, so good for her.

Now, I get that socialization is super important for kids, and I'm not minimizing that. Definitely a hard problem here, but one we're quite unprepared for.

Deirdre