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by hackflip 1617 days ago
Should children have to sacrifice their development to protect adults? I always thought adults should be the ones making sacrifices for children, not the other way around.
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On airplanes the parents are told to fit their oxygen mask first in an emergency, as its hard to help your child when you are unconscious. I feel the same applies here.
>I feel the same applies here.

That doesn't really follow logically. The reason why that's the advice on airplanes is that you can be unconscious for a while (a minute or two?) and not suffer brain damage. Therefore the cost of helping yourself is fairly low. It's not clear that the same dynamic applies to lockdowns.

No they shouldn't but your government should provide for those children and their development. There are countries on this planet which have shown how it's supposed to be done.

Instead some Governments went out and sacrificed everybody.

Definitely not the norm with the boomer generation. It's not people under 50 that are really victims of covid.

Harsh point to make but at this point I hold what I consider to be a very justifiable grudge.