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Imagine how isolation is affecting our children. It's bad enough if you have a sibling or two to interact with. For only children it can be excruciating. Solitary confinement is rough on hardened criminals, it must be much worse for innocent children!

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.

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

Quarantine the sick. Shield the vulnerable. Free everyone else!

[Monkey Face]

I love your thoughts on this, Nully. Thanks! They’re an echo of my own.

;o]

‘Face

[bgill]

For only children it can be excruciating.

Oh, puleeeese! I grew up an only child out in the country with one tv channel, no phone and long before ipads to talk to the entire world. Good memories of childhood. Far from excruciating.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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.

Especially if the child is a young boy. There is a whole cadre of beta male "nice guys" in our society right now, and the reason they're like that, according to Dr. William Glover, is because early abandonment issues persuaded them that they were inherently bad people. So imagine what healthy women 20 years from now will wind up saddled with, sad to say, if they get involved with certain men who were young boys during these lockdowns. More divorces, breakups and bad sex.