Many children are suffering from the inadequacy of online learning, but I don’t see how my going out to restaurants and shopping malls is going to get the schools open any sooner. If anything, because California is on a county-by-county tier system the more the virus spreads the less likely the schools are to re-open.
So though this is probably not the answer you were asking about, I’m willing to forgo the gym, cut my own hair, avoid indoor dining, buy Christmas gifts online, avoid in-person gatherings with anyone outside my immediate family, wear a mask, and socially distance so the children can go back to normal life sooner. And so the elderly people I might come in contact with do not catch the disease from me (healthy young people like me are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers). And so that I am not saddled with large hospital bills and missed days of work should my case not be so asymptomatic.
I realize this probably isn’t going to win me any popularity points with many Freepers. I know that many of my elders and “betters” would rather that I go back to “normal life” ASAP either because they are struggling business owners or because it would reassure them to see young people out partying. But just as calling a tail a leg does not make it so neither will young people pretending the virus does not exist make it disappear. I wish we could go back to the way things were in 2019 but that’s not the world we live in right now.
Also not all of us young’uns are natural party animals. I avoided bars and drinking-centric parties even before COVID was a thing because drinking for the sake of getting drunk just seemed pointless to me.
“Many children are suffering from the inadequacy of online learning”
All the studies say the smart ones suffer no loss of education.
It’s the dumb, or unmotivated that suffer in remote learning.
They don’t learn anything when in school either.
But they all suffer the loss of youthful exploration and friendship.