At least the criminals have lived long enough to have developed coping mechanisms, and the ability to understand why they are isolated.
A young child? Not so much. They sit alone wondering why they are being punished by the whole world. The internalized sense of free floating guilt (for nothing!) and diminished sense of self-worth will haunt many for the rest of their lives.
We flattened the curve, but the left wasn't satisfied.
We've flattened our children, and they still aren't satisfied.
Or as Livius adds:
But all the “public service” ad pitches for masks, isolation, etc. are that if somebody else gets “the virus,” it’s your fault. Children particularly are made to feel like radioactive waste, and to regard everybody else - especially all other children - as equal threats. They will indeed have a sense of diminished self-worth all of their lives. Especially for breaking out and doing normal kid things like laughing, jumping around - in other words, innocent fun and human expression. That won’t permitted in our future Marxist paradise.
That can't be good...
Food for thought.
It is a sad, sad world when children can’t be children.
The isolation is truly horrible for children.
One of the (not so odd) things in my county in the relatively free state of Florida is that the teachers union has kept up a steady stream of “fear porn” directed at teachers, even though there’s absolutely no factual foundation for this. So the public schools are barely open, or at best do some indifferent, poorly attended on-line stuff.
Strangely, the virus doesn’t seem to affect Catholic schools or most of the private schools here. They have in-person learning (even though they’ve had to jump through idiotic city hoops, such as plexiglass desk shields) and I’ve even seen the kids out on the playgrounds doing sports. I guess it only affects you if you are a member of the UFT or its local teachers union branch.
Maybe they should all quit the union now and they’ll be immune?