[lynx23]

Thanks for saying that, 100% agree! It was obvious from the start that the restrictions will do more harm then good. Almost everyone in my circles that has kids is reporting psychological problems. Teachers report that they have to care for three suicidal kids during a school trip. People having long term side effects from the vaccination. And still, the restriction-fanatics are trying to ignore the obvious.

[ben_w]

The trouble with anecdotes is that I have examples of people who were bed-ridden for 6 months with a COVID infection, and I was lucky because other people have examples of corpses from it. My secondary school 22 years ago had enough pupils that, if it’s the same size now, half a dozen to a dozen of those pupils will have faced relatives dying from it, and those stories will have spread around the playgrounds/social media.

Then there’s the fact that, even though it’s milder for pupils, they can still get: if you know what it can do to your granny before you get it, it’s going to be terrifying; and if you get it mildly and then granny dies from it, you’re going to feel survivor’s guilt and worry if you killed her.

Then there’s the fact that parents were already keeping their kids off school before the official lockdowns, because so many people saw the government wasn’t taking it seriously (which later became the PM almost dying from it, but it was obvious they didn’t care well before then).

[543g43g43]

What's worse than anecdotes is 3rd-hand anecdotes. I've heard so much about "those with Covid corpses", but have yet to hear from them. I'm sure they exist, but there are way fewer of them than people seem to think.

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[kevingadd]

I wonder what kind of psychological problems result when you watch your loved ones catch covid and end up hospitalized or worse for long periods of time? We'll never know, I guess.

[543g43g43]

There are rather fewer of these people (in fact, I haven't heard from any of them), than people who have had to tell their children they have to stay inside due to the horrible virus stalking outside.

[benjaminwootton]

Fortunately, most of our loved ones under 80 only suffered with a few days in bed, so the psychological scarring wasn't too deep.

And the ones over 80 ended up catching it anyway.

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