Comment:
Just to stimulate thought and play the devil’s advocate here… It will be Interesting to compare this study with studies of toddlers and children who weren’t locked down and caught covid. It will further prove interesting to see what long term repercussions and long term impact the physical health and mental health truly are for children and toddlers who get infected and/ or get repeatedly infected with covid.
Not to dismiss these studies as important, I tend to think it’s hard to reverse the ill effects of a disease as compared to reversing the psychological impacts or trauma of staying safe through through certain forms of strategic isolation or the stigma some of society society might inflict upon one another for taking precautions such as masking and not getting infected by disease …
…to me I’d rather choose dealing with the trauma of having protected my loved ones from getting the disease in the first place rather than to have to deal with the trauma of my kid actually having to deal long covid.
Time will tell as these studies persist and continue.
A mask a day keeps the doctor away,
The Masked Man
P.S. school itself actually caused me me a great deal of grief and trauma as a child.. I am somewhat of an advocate of homeschooling especially during pandemics. I believe in education but I also envision a lot of change and reform that could make public schools a lot better!
There were after school fistfights held by children for children at my school.. children can be cruel.. it was like “lord of the flies”..
.. gotta say at my school there was lots of battles with self esteem and in later years of schooling plenty of peer pressure to use drugs alcohol and tobacco.. nothing was more traumatizing than bringing a report card home for many of us.
Regardless , I wouldn’t feel too guilty for isolating your kid from catching covid which might prove to carry many long term health repercussions.. you may have saved your kid from early onset dementia or something … don’t feel guilty for taking precautions protecting yourself or loved ones from a disease! Better safe than sorry when it comes to viruses that may prove less forgiving than we previously thought.
Is it ‘traumatic’ defending yourself from a disease!? I suppose it is a traumatic experience to defend oneself or one’s family from a disease that can maim, kill, and give people disabilities. Those are the times we live in. To me it’s worth the trauma and the trouble of defending yourself and your loved ones from a disease.
To me it was traumatic watching on the news all the funeral pyres in India and all the bodies killed by the delta variant. All that crying and all those tears and the smoking bodies! Hordes of people carrying the dead around on their backs …That was traumatic .. made ‘isolation’ sound like a vacation and a paradise only for the highly privileged. For If I am not incorrect the body count and lack of places to have funerals for covid victims was happening in India when the “lockdowns “ were taking place for the British schoolchildren.
