If you think the world has gone bonkers, how will this period be judged?

[Daffodil101]

To be clear, this is a thread for people who think the works has gone bonkers.

How will we look back on this? How will history judge it?

My feeling is something about the lack of consideration for children. I think we will look back and think that children’s needs were overlooked, their education and mental health was affected by adult hysteria.

They couldn’t meet their peers, schools were so worried about having them back that they treated them like dirty, walking viruses, talked about them in bubbles and wanted them to play inside hoops.

Also something about utterly bonkers behaviour with no scientific basis, however willing to argue on social media that we were right ‘just because’ and reflection on the government’s own goal in use of the word ‘safe.’

18yo DD is asking why, if the grading system to replace exams (A-levels & GCSEs), will be just as rigorous and fair as exams... why did they ever do exams at all? She's got a point.

Bright girl! It's obviously a fiction, like much of public life these days.

I think I might need a drink tonight.

@Straycatstrut I'm so sorry to hear how you're suffering. Please ask for help. Someone must be able to help ease the pressure on you

My poor bloody nephew has worked his socks off for his A Levels and to get into University. He should have been spending this summer travelling round Europe, before going off to be with others of his age doing the course he really wants to do. He's now facing a summer at home and - at the moment - not much certainty about what his University experience will actually be. Although he'll still be charged for it. So sad.

He has more time to save up for a trip around Europe.
It is sad that many pockets of society have been forgotten Many secondary schoolers are also sitting and waiting. But hey it’s more important that the year 6 start and fuck everyone else,

Secondary schools here will be closed to their own students for transition days.

Next academic should be just as fun. School tours for new intakes.

I’m thinking of deregistering mine to give him stability. It will be hard of course, but chances are they will be feeling like bloody yo-yos, and of course, at least 2 weeks home anyway.

In decades to come there will be a narrative about us all selflessly pulling together - losing our freedom to protect the weakest in society.

I predict the UK government will be criticised for not acting sooner having prepared for decades for a pandemic.

It's not over yet but if we have a second, larger wave (you know, like with Spanish Flu), the economic and social costs will be immeasurably higher than now and lockdown (unless we have a cure or vaccine) will be prolonged.

The economic and social costs will be discussed but it's too early to know what they will be and which industries will benefit. Currently we're concentrating on the worst hit. I personally think we are in for a housing crash which will massively benefit those desperate to get on the housing market but currently priced out of the market.

Kids will be affected but kids are affected by everything. It will just be another part of their childhood. Technology and the internet has provided so many more opportunities for learning and communicating that we're just not feasible a few decades ago. I know it's not all available to everyone but it's more available and more affordable than it's ever been. And for that I am grateful even as I pry DS away from the screen to go and kick a ball against an empty building. He's more relaxed about the current situation than I ever was about the fear of nuclear obliteration I grew up with in the 1980s.