Elliott

I was pointing out the indoor culture here. I mean, baristas are striking at Starbucks too... people like to whine. Lol, Google "slum" and then get back to me about these Australian kids locked out of school.for 5 months. Where is this person at that I dismissed their feelings? You're hurt by covid, I don't mean to dismiss your suffering, please share.

Humans are not fragile napkins. Trials and tribulations, hard times, are things that grow people.

20%, I'd say, you disagree? I go to parks in a major city. And most of the families there are 1st generation immigrant. Australia is different than the u.s., but Americans spend a lot of time indoors.

I mean, apartment parents already suck, most of those kids are already screwed. You think apartment parents take their kids to the park every weekend, what percent of apartment parents ever take their kids to the park? Just a guess.

Obviously read more books and play in the yard, bike, skateboard,.... Lock down is OVER. LIMIT SCREEN TIME

Do you know any kids? I do, and they're very intelligent, very socially adjusted, they're amazing, and they were city kids locked down during covid

MFer, what the fuck are parents for, take the screens away, jesus.

Do you know how many kids are retarded by screens? Far more than covid.

It's relative, kids are/were already fucked up in the way you're worried about.

The longest closure I see is 5 months, not 2 years. Summer vacation is usually 3 months.

Absolutely, but not stopped or appreciably encumbered by two years remote.

Europe has gone MAGA https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/05/fifa-peace-prize-trump-world-cup-infantino

Listen, I don't hate education, I LOVE education. But you, place too much importance on our education system, it does not cure cancer, it does not do most things, people do, people that learn novel things because they themselves figured something out, with the help of education but not purely because of the education system. It's a tool, not utilized correctly by most, only by a few positive innovators in which MOST credit is due to them PERSONALLY and not the system.

Are you a socialist? Do you think the ivy league produces CEOs and stock traders, or how many people that cured cancer have they produced? I'm an environmentalist, fuck aeroplanes, fuck chemicals.

Lol, I guess the ivy league is the worst education then. I think public education is great - if the parents teach the kids how to learn...... Ivy league malcontents "Donald Trump attended two colleges: Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated from the Wharton School" "JD Vance went to The Ohio State University (graduating in 2009) and Yale Law School, where he earned his Juris Doctor " "Peter Thiel attended Stanford University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a law degree" "Elon Musk went to Queen's University in Canada for a couple of years, then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), where he earned dual bachelor's degrees in Physics and Economics from the Wharton School" "Mark Zuckerberg attended Harvard University,"

"Less" than very little is of no concern to me. Kids don't learn much from school anyway. If you're not a parent teaching your kid, and teaching your kid to learn from reading books, the kid is going to be an idiot even if he lives at school. I just don't think daily school is that necessary for social development that two years off from in-person is worrisome. Most kids play with their friends over the internet regardless of covid anyway, they play video games over the internet, they text constantly, and snapchat. Nor are pre-covid people very socialized either, more "less" of shit socialization. You have an unrealistic image of pre-covid, people have been fucked even before covid.

Are you saying Australia didn't allow people to go to wilderness areas? A family couldn't take a kids friend out in the wilderness and camp or picnic?

If parents were half as good as you insinuate, they would have continued some form of socialization. Something like organizing with vaccinated friends to have play dates, go camping in wilderness areas with friends, hiking, biking, visiting family, small picnics. Jesus christ, you don't need a God dammed zoo... I gotta get off here, you guys make me sound 20 years older. Parents suck, is the problem.

Ya, tapeworms save people's lives half the time don't they.... the ussr just needed more tapeworms apparently.

This is just so contradictory So, you think most parents are functionally good parents, effectively. Yet, 2 years shutdown is going to kill the kids. Ridiculous. Parents raise their kids by the t.v. and never take them out.

14 years ago Parents raise their kids via television, regardless of covid.

How many times a year did you go to the zoo, parks, water park, movies? The lowest number year, what was it?

How many times a year did you go to the zoo, parks, water park? The lowest number year, what was it? I go to parks and the library all the time and they're quite empty, is the world still shutdown?

This should be linked to the conformity thread. Lol

Being a kid in an urban environment is already a hindrance though.