Pure BS. A lot of us oldtimers never had a social life. We can home right after school to do chores, Got up early to help milk then go to school. came home and started over. Weekends, never went to town. No phones or other communication.
We did learn how to work and went on to be successful though.
Its because we were able to be alone with ourselves and be okay with it. Thats why.
Our parents would give us stuff fo do if we complained about theres nothing to do. Or were bored. Our parents also would not have reacfed this way to covd, because they didnt react this way to the other major illnesses/flus that DID occur in the 70s and 80s.
Same here. We were out in the country. Only one phone in the kitchen. I didn’t have a social life until college.
It is NOT BS. It happened. Teens now are much more tied to socializing. Their home lives were bad before COVID and they had no way in which to escape.
My nieces and nephews did okay. They missed school, hated the online classes, were not married to tech, but our whole family still got together once a month regardless. We did NOT mask in spite of Gretchen’s edicts. Probably helped.
“A lot of us oldtimers never had a social life.”
In the early 70s, when I was 12 years old, my father would pick me up after school on Fridays and take me to the restaurant he managed. I would work until 9:00. On Saturday and Sunday I would work from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm. My official social security income actually starts when I was 13 years old. I did this all the way through high school. It would probably be considered child abuse now, but I would not trade the real life education I got from doing this for anything.