> COVID-19 seems to be most severe in older adults. Children and young adults generally have mild infections. We are grateful for this.
I'm sorry to ask this .. why are we grateful for this?
I'm sorry to ask this .. why are we grateful for this?
Which would surprise and shock you more? Which would be the thing you are more prepared for, because you already had the thought in your head that this would happen at some time? Which would possibly be so devastating it could also end your relationship to your partner, redefine you as a person and totally change your life?
If I should have to bury my daughter, I would be devastated.
If an older person's life ends a bit earlier than it should have, it's sad. But a child's life ending premature, before they've had much of a life at all, is worse, by most peoples' calculus.
The completion of life for someone who has truly lived can be as beautiful as it is tragic. Many cultures, including Christianity, celebrate death in some capacity.
Of course death is never desirable, but it is certainly possible for it to be not undesirable in the right context. People who have had near death experiences and lived recount a sublime experience of understanding as if every part of their life and history, every part of reality is exactly in the place it belongs.
I don't imagine this experience is typical for a small child being prodded by strange people in tyvek suits speaking in metaphors about sleeping and telling them white lies about feeling better... So all that is possibly left is the tragic experience of death.
Grateful that healthier individuals (of which there are more) are not as affected