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Who do you think got shafted the most, younger people schooling from home for a couple years, or older people literally dying?

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I'm not against taking measures during a pandemic so that people don't die brother I just think taking and taking and giving absolutely nothing in return is a little disrespectful and your sharp debating skills won't make me any less empathetic for young people

> I'm not against taking measures during a pandemic so that people don't die

But I was talking about taking measures during a pandemic so that people don't die, because I was replying to this comment: "we collectively decided in 2020 to trade young people's livelyhoods for old peoples lives".

Thus, changing the subject in your reply to me seems strange, unhelpful, and unfair.

I thought we're talking about young people, not --toddlers-- children, for Christ's sake

We are. Toddlers don't go to school, so they didn't miss any school during the pandemic.

Fortunate toddlers do go to school. Lots of babies and toddlers only get interaction with other children in daycare, which I assume provides some developmental benefit.

The subject of the submitted article is teenage unhappiness, so this seems like a tangent. Are toddlers unhappy? I don't know.

Yes, it was a tangent, but just wanted to point out that, for many in the US at least, it is not like decades ago when kids were out playing in the neighborhood. It is very possible that most, if not all, social interaction between kids happens in daycare, school, gym classes, or otherwise supervised get togethers.

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