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I volunteer with a lot of high-school kids, and from what I've seen, they've been okay for the most part when it comes to mental health, except for those who have toxic families and who use school as an escape (to get out of the house, recharge, etc.). For those kids, it's been really, really hard.

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When I first heard the home abuse story I shivered because I had a mere mild version as a late teenager. I literally trained for a marathon because that meant 2-4 hours/day away from the house.

The only good that came out of it was that I studied so freaking hard so I could get a job and move out.

There was no empathy for this demographic, but lots of empathy for 70+ year olds.

> There was no empathy for this demographic, but lots of empathy for 70+ year olds.

There was lots of empathy for young people, including from those 70+ folks; it's just the narrative can not sustain on a diet of empathy.

In the places where lockdowns have been both draconian and ineffective, the priority is more to give the impression that the politicians are "doing something", not to seek a good outcome on a balance of opportunities taken and missed.

For the longest time the lockdown was pretty much screwing over young people for the benefit of old people.

Now I am not in the US, but I do wonder if so much would have been shutdown if it had been young people who died, like it was in 1920.

Screwing over young people for the benefit of old people is kinda the norm. But at least in this case it's justified because it's literally millions of lives on the line. Its just hard for the young people to empathize sometimes given how much they are screwed over economically and environmentally constantly.

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