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damage the long-term wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of children.
Missing a couple of weeks of school is going to have fuck all effect on even 1 kid.
Even assuming this term is completely out and they manage to not do anything at home it will have minimal impact. Those due GCSE/A levels aren't having them. Those not taking significant exams miss 10 weeks or so of their school career. Big deal. They've probably kicked off their tiktok career in the meantime.
villa-ru-
Missing a couple of weeks of school is going to have fuck all effect on even 1 kid.
Being stuck indoors with their mum and dad 24/7....eh jury is out
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They've probably kicked off their tiktok career in the meantime.
Ha!
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lol this is a pretty cavalier attitude to children's mental health. Young people are already struggling with anxiety and other mental health issues on a massive scale, I doubt the message of 'you can't go out and see people otherwise Granny and Grandad might snuff it' is going to help with that particularly.
There's also a developmental concern here. Not being able to see other kids for...who knows how long lockdown will last, let's say 6 months...for a 4 year old that's half a year (or 12.5% of their life so far) of missing out on crucial social development, interacting with other children and adults.
Howard
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We're learning about this all the time, and of course deaths aren't limited to the over-70s, but my impression is that the vast majority of deaths still fall in that demographic.
Of course I'm not happy. Nobody is happy in this situation, because all the decisions in this situation are shit, but that doesn't mean that we should always default to minimising the short-term pain, without considering the long-term implications. It's not less valid to ask whether you're happy to damage the long-term wellbeing of hundreds of thousands of children. We've entered lockdown and it feels like people expect that there will be some sort of eureka moment when somehow this all gets sorted and we can go back to life as normal; however, while we're waiting for that to happen we may quietly pass the point where the negative effects of the lockdown surpass the positives.
This is also important. In addition, the problem of the NHS not being able to treat non-Covid patients has to be factored in.