Ha ha I actually posted a comment on a time magazine story in February 2020 stating that kids were weirdly unaffected. I remarked that the virus was targeting old people so the kids could rebuild a better world. It was totally tongue in cheek and I had different politics back then, but it’s funny to remember how I started out in this crisis and what has changed and what is the same. I was never afraid for the kids.
sometimes substack won't locate comments for me and it's a pain to find them myself. happened a lot on this post. but today I am back in business! Absolutely agree it is a denial of physical reality. We examined risk stratification in early 2020, decided we had nothing to fear and promptly proceeded to become infected with the alpha strain. Which affected the family pretty much exactly as we figured it would. I, with the highest percentage of body fat, had the worst time of it, but still beat it without any medical intervention whatsoever. After that we felt pretty invincible! We are in the Netherlands, so although we endured some ludicrous and ineffective regulations including multiple horrendous school closures, we fared much better than my American peers and I kept my kids out of masks almost entirely. Phew!
Your optimism is useful. It's easy for me to get stuck in doom and gloom, especially when it comes to people I care about, but in the end, I too have a big picture optimism. Humans will find a way out of this, even if all hell must first break loose. And if we don't, well the earth will go on despite it all.
Hmm. Dystopian novel where all adults died due to vax and resistance wars... Kids have to figure it out. Kind of a worldwide Lord of the Flies.
Ha ha I actually posted a comment on a time magazine story in February 2020 stating that kids were weirdly unaffected. I remarked that the virus was targeting old people so the kids could rebuild a better world. It was totally tongue in cheek and I had different politics back then, but it’s funny to remember how I started out in this crisis and what has changed and what is the same. I was never afraid for the kids.
sometimes substack won't locate comments for me and it's a pain to find them myself. happened a lot on this post. but today I am back in business! Absolutely agree it is a denial of physical reality. We examined risk stratification in early 2020, decided we had nothing to fear and promptly proceeded to become infected with the alpha strain. Which affected the family pretty much exactly as we figured it would. I, with the highest percentage of body fat, had the worst time of it, but still beat it without any medical intervention whatsoever. After that we felt pretty invincible! We are in the Netherlands, so although we endured some ludicrous and ineffective regulations including multiple horrendous school closures, we fared much better than my American peers and I kept my kids out of masks almost entirely. Phew!
Your optimism is useful. It's easy for me to get stuck in doom and gloom, especially when it comes to people I care about, but in the end, I too have a big picture optimism. Humans will find a way out of this, even if all hell must first break loose. And if we don't, well the earth will go on despite it all.