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Do your teenagers/young adults respect the government's doings?

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wanderings · 28/05/2020 13:05

Do the young people in your family take the view that the government is acting to protect them from the virus, or do they angrily see them as enemies who are snatching away the good things in their life (seeing family, holidays, school, playgrounds), and Boris as a clown in a suit, pontificating behind his lectern? Not necessarily about the way they're handling the virus, but in general.

The younger generation have every right to feel angry right now; they've had a lot to lose from the restrictions, with their schools, exams, seeing their friends and family, most leisure activities and sports, all snatched away from them; and they're the ones who are least likely to be badly affected by the virus. University students have had it badly as well, with being told they'll have to pay full tuition fees for online learning, as well as the earlier strikes, to say nothing of the likelihood of graduating into a bad recession.

What I'm wondering is how much the teenagers of this generation are going to respect government in general after this. I expect some of them might think the government are doing what they can in a very bad situation that's never happened before, but might for instance the Cummings saga be something that they'd remember for years to come, as proof that it's "one rule for them, one rule for everyone else"?

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