Aibu for finding these sentiments infuriating?

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This post has cropped up several times and I find it incredibly naive. Yes sure, that’s how it will be for some families, but what about families where there is poverty and abuse? For some this period will be a holiday filled with love and laughter, for others it will be difficult and I can’t help but think that this post negates that. For me, it’s what if children die? What if children are neglected and abused? For some children school is all that saves them from the abyss.

brilliant words from a School Principal (shared by a friend) I can’t love it enough.

COVID-19 Kids – what if?
When people say kids are going to be ‘behind’ I say, behind what?? Not each other- they’re all in the same boat. Only ‘behind’ the age expectations of a curriculum that currently has limited context due to these extraordinary circumstances. In front on so many other more important fronts I say.

What if instead of “behind” this group of kids is advanced because of this.
What if they have more empathy, they enjoy family connection, they can be more creative and entertain themselves, they love to read, they love to express themselves in writing.

What if they enjoy the simple things, like their own backyard and sitting near a window in the quiet?
What if they notice the birds and the dates the different flowers emerge, and the calming renewal of a gentle rain shower?

What if this generation is the one to learn to cook, organize their space, do their laundry, and keep a well-run home?
What if they learn to stretch a dollar and to live with less?
What if they learn to plan shopping trips and meals at home?
What if they learn the value of eating together as a family and finding the good to share in the small delights of the everyday?

What if they are the ones to place great value on our teachers and educational professionals, librarians, public servants and the previously invisible essential support workers like truck drivers, grocers, cashiers, custodians, logistics, and health care workers and their supporting staff, just to name a few of the millions taking care of us right now while we are sheltered in place?

What if among these children, a great leader emerges who had the benefit of a slower pace and a simpler life, who has a fine sense of empathy and care and concern for fellow humans.

What if he or she truly learns what really matters in all this…

The problem is poverty and poor health have strong links. Poorer people of all ages are more likely to be at high risk from Covid. (Abuse happens to children from all backgrounds btw, including those with gardens and big houses.)

Yes I agree. Should have said poverty or abuse. I just think it’s so smug and while people want to find the positive in a difficult situation, the denial of those who are struggling annoys me.

Sorry, I thought you were calling for lockdown to end. I get what you mean. It's an awful time for some. I think that Facebook post is people trying to make the best of a bad situation if they possibly can. Some won't have considered the issues you're understandably concerned about but I think others are just trying to think positive.

I don't know why I'm less irritated by that sort of thing suddenly because I felt exactly like you for ages. It got me down so I had to try to ignore it for a bit. I've had to accept I can't change how some people think. Unfortunately some don't care about others or refuse to see how things might be more difficult for some people. I think what you're doing, pointing out the issues without attacking them, is all you can do - and it's definitely worth doing. Although some won't care, others just haven't considered it before.

At the moment my kids are at risk of having a shell of a mother. I can’t cope with this homeschooling. I just can’t. There’s a reason why I pay other people thousands to do it for me.

I absolutely hate the notion going around that a simpler and slower life is a better life. It may be for some people but it isn't for others and it doesn't make people who enjoy 'sitting near a window in the quiet' morally superior. Newsflash to the people who wrote this, people enjoy and benefit from different things.

There is nothing wrong with people who enjoy a busy life and don't like sitting by a window and listening to birdsong, it's bloody boring for some people. Why does everyone think that lockdown life is somehow superior?

What if among these children, a great leader emerges who had the benefit of a slower pace and a simpler life, who has a fine sense of empathy and care and concern for fellow humans.

Also hate this notion. It implies that by leading a busy life with have no empathy for others. Well my busy life enables me to earn more so I can afford to give to charity. I have care and concern for other human beings and the fact that I enjoy being out of the house, working, going for drinks and doing activities makes no difference to this.

It's probably just a comfort mechanism for most of them. Lots of them are probably struggling with lockdown too and it's their way of trying to deal with it. I wouldn't let it upset you, although I understand why you find it irritating.

I hope you don't think you should shut up btw. This thread is good. It's important to be able to speak about what annoys or upsets you.

I am a SP in poverty. Fortunately there is no abuse in my home. We love and value eachother very much. I hope our DC and us, learn to be better people and earth inhabitants.

I would much rather be poor and live in poverty with my DC, than be abused and the DC see abuse as normal.

What if people stopped posting virtue signalling shite.
What if people stopped comparing themselves to others
What if people stopped looking at social media sites that are trying to make everyone feel bad if they're not posting the same bullshit.
What if people stopped sharing and copied and pasted. What difference does that make?
What if people ignored this modern day version of chain letters.
What if people just carried on doing their best in really shitty circumstances, what if people just got by from day to day while they're trying to make sense of this unprecedented situation.
What if people just carried on doing the best they can and took no fucking notice at all of the twats on Facebook.

Thank you @ToffeeYoghurt☺️Social media for the most part has been great, communicating with my friends. I think it has its value. I use it in a mostly lighthearted way. I think it’s just about acknowledging what others might be going through also.

Blueapples I absolutely hate the notion going around that a simpler and slower life is a better life. It may be for some people but it isn't for others and it doesn't make people who enjoy 'sitting near a window in the quiet' morally superior.

Exactly right. It's the same with the notion that making things more "natural" is always somehow "better". COVID-19 is natural, the vaccine when they find one will be an artificial, engineered one. The domination of the female by the male is the "natural" order of things, as is slavery, as is the killing of others to the maximum extent that current technology permits. But "nature" isn't good in itself - it's the biggest killer on the planet, after all...

I also really hate that long chain status that's going round, "documenting" the pandemic for posterity. As if the historians will look back in years to come, and light upon Sarah from Doncaster's FB status as a valuable source.