[quote rookiemere]@eeeyoresmiles that's a ridiculous comparison and you know it.
I'm not asking for the moon on a stick, all I want is for my DS to get a reasonable education- if it has to be a mixture of online and face to face I can even live with that provided it is taught rather than just handed out - and for him to have an opportunity to play sport outside with his friends.
Before things were in balance. I did not complain for the first two months of lockdown as we did not know much about the virus and it's demographics. I was happy for him to make a sacrifice to what seemed like a greater cause at the time for a couple of months, now I can see this stretching for another 6-12 months and we can see demographics of who is being impacted I'm no longer signing up to screw up my DCs future willingly.
I'm simply saying that if we sacrifice everything else at the alter of coronavirus, we should be aware of the unintended consequences and add them to the scales when deciding what course of action would be appropriate.
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So if I've understood that right, now you know who's most likely to die, you want anti-covid measures to be reduced, compared to when you thought different demographics might be at risk? I can see why the cancer comparison makes no sense to you, because it seems like you're seeing people who are vulnerable to covid as qualitatively different from people who are vulnerable to cancer. Even though the vulnerable group is huge and includes lots of young people, working people, parents of school-aged children, essential workers and so on?
In any case, what I think you're unfortunately overlooking is that you and your ds yourselves will be extremely impacted by covid if it spreads widely. You might not be likely to die of the illness itself, but if we get a massive wave of illness, your life and his education will still be hugely affected.
The emphasis early on on how we were doing what we were doing to protect the vulnerable was a mistake, as I think it's really misled people as to the risks to even non-vulnerable people of letting infection rates rise and the disease spread freely. Life won't go back to any kind of normal if lots of us opt out of trying to go along with restrictions to stop the disease spreading.
We've got to keep walking this tightrope of letting people do as many normal activities as possible while keeping infection rates at a low and manageable level. Everyone who decides they're not going to bother being careful any more or follow any temporary restrictions just makes it more likely we'll fall off that tightrope and end up with more and more hospital admissions, school closures and so on. It won't be as simple as just a few more vulnerable people dying - everyone's life will be affected.
I honestly don't think people are overlooking the other consequences of anti-covid measures the way you think they are. It's just that they're having to balance that out not just against possible deaths, but also against the more general disruption caused by the virus spreading. Even if we write off every covid death and say they don't matter, we'll still have huge problems if the virus spreads widely. Just bear that in mind.