I never compared the elderly to children and I never stated kids weren't resilient, those are your additions. What I did say is
some people are acting as if the above things don't have long term effects on brain and physical health.
While I respect you're a professional in psychology, my youngest is currently majoring in psychology and the above mentioned are studies they are conducting, following and studying during C-19. The studies to choose from are never ending: The impact masks have had on the hearing impaired, communication, lack of facial interaction with strangers, and yes, concern for infants and children since those are critical years of identifying who they know/don't know and comparing/reading emotion. The impact of online schooling (not even close to home schooling) for children in poor areas, for those learning how to read and write, those without siblings, with parents working out of the home, single parents, young children home alone, dietary changes. They are studying children's increased social media and screen time, kids hygiene, children's sleep changes, depression, decreased exercise. The impact on college students with internships and new employees learning in professional jobs that are currently being done from home. The impact of job loss, loss of benefits, increased poverty levels, increased parental/spousal stress, increased drinking and drug usage. They are following the increased anti-anxiety med usage, lack of psychiatric beds, suicides and suicide ideation, the impact on hospital workers. They are studying masks and loss of facial recognition in the elderly, rapid declines in dementia patients, lack of social and physical stimulation, increased strokes/heart attacks, increased sleep and hallucinations.... While no doubt most families are making the best of it and kids are resilient, that has absolutely nothing to do with the long term impacts of all of the abo
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@HeatUniqueJ I 100% agree handling a pandemic is the unknown and people need to be kind. I do believe these conversations, even heated ones are important, because everyone's situation is different and we often try to make our reality, everyone else's.
