I remember having a conversation a year ago about an incredibly worrying trend. In surveys, the dividing line between young voters wasn't just male vs female — it was whether you graduated high school pre or post-COVID.
The latter group was incredibly anti-social and very angry.
The latter group was incredibly anti-social and very angry.
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Said early 98ers (with whom I went to school) are in the same cohort as kids born during Reagan.
It’s “bootstrap” adjacent.
My oldest son had a wealthier friend group and the majority of them are now Trump bros. Youngest son the opposite. The pandemic amplified everything, but many kids were already on a certain path before Covid.
It wasn’t the pandemic. It’s how their parents handled the pandemic, often based on how/what type of Republican they were, and what media the household consumed
I do it all of the time.
On the other hand, it means you can type a hyperlink and then delete it, saving the characters but the link will stay.
See?
I was sad, still am, about what the kids missed, but yeesh. Somehow not everyone’s sons became groypers
I'm sure that an expert in adolescent development could explain some of this, but I suspect that those who had HS ruined came out the worst.
Those old enough to read became fairly hyper connected during the pandemic, chatting with each other on the side on Discord during class.
She hated having to do the extra work, but now she has strong reading skills and feels proud of how she’s doing in school
imagine if we all had taken it seriously and just isolated for two weeks- the whole planet, no contact, no interactions.
instead this was the best we could do.
Meaning, when do we get to the point where kids weren't majorly affected by the COVID induced school pauses?
About the only thing 2018's missed out on are a few extra playdates.
https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/01.wnl.0001051276.37012.c2
duhhh. long covid gives u brain damage. and many children havnt left their beds or homes since, mostly little girls. i wonder how those children must feel.
Get over it
Anyway, are you talking about “reckoning” now or back then?
I recall him cheering in early 2022 when the trump appointed judge struck down the airplane masking, for example
until 2024 - now that Dems actually did poorly in an election, he's back to claiming Covid precautions have helped Rs politically
This stuff is all knowable and the dire predictions have long been debunked
In Europe they (for the most part) prioritized kids. We should have too.
School employees needed to get Covid and get it over with?
Seeing widespread abandonment by various institutions during the last *five years* seems far more likely to radicalize people than being in remote learning for a few months
https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/annualreports/topical-studies/covid/
every poor result for a Democrat is bc of Covid precautions they found annoying lol
If 2.0 are vaxx resistent, it means their parents are maga.
The idea is that red state kids would be less radicalized socially, which is absolutely not the case
What you're saying is important but people are forgetting that there was a health crisis that was killing people, including school staff.
But either way, I don’t think there was a sound reason to assume the ads wouldn’t have an impact.
I wonder if endemic (long, repeat) COVID is going to be this generation's lead paint
Unfortunately that wasn’t widely possible until April or May of 2021.
You are ignoring huge swaths of context, which makes me highly suspect of your data analysis in *any* subject.
Arkansas went back in fall of 2020, and we have the exact same issues. We had to deal with social distancing, quarantines and sickness.
It didn’t make any difference because PANDEMIC.
NYC - where mobile morgue trucks were once a thing - was hybrid schedule in Sept 2020 and fully in-person by EOY.
99% of schools were in person by fall 2021. We got smoked bc of delta, then omicron, combined with low vax rates (and no vax available yet for kids). People tried, yet you’re still resentful and wrong.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/08/more-difficult-by-the-day-alabama-struggles-to-keep-schools-open-amid-covid-surge.html
But how is this different from the "T.V. is ruining our kids when it's used as a babysitter?"
People tend to move toward what is easiest.
Myths about education/ social loss have happened before, get disproven every time. Every. Time.
It’s also possible simultaneously to be a thinker who knows misfortune happens, prioritises saving lives, and targets the real enemy—a virus—for anger rather than other human beings who are trying to keep each other alive.
Eye rolls from the young are coming for everyone—and sooner than you think.
ALL interaction was face-to-face.
And yet, also: The Trumpiest generation, according to polls.
Kids who grow up marinating in an asshole-culture that rewards assholes will tend to grow up to be assholes, regardless of how that culture is expressed to them.
"You get what you optimize for". Even with kids.
All people intrinisically like the idea of a community, even if a deeply flawed one in the form of social media that brings them no end of suffering. They could veto it, but it's hard to just walk away.
The dumbest shit I’ll read all day. Impressive work, considering the current administration.
1. Black kids are *much* more online and on their smartphones than white folk. And it's not even close.
2. But young Black men and young Black women have the *least* skew in terms of politics.
It's not the smartphones.
watching the entire WORLD insist kids like you should be put back into closequarters 8hr-day unventilated enclosures during a airborne pandemic?
might mayhaps drive a lil cynicism
Because "young Americans" is a fancy way of saying "Increase the percent of non-white people in this cohort from under 20% to more than 50%.
Just checking for the next pandemic this year
"Sorry Granny, you gotta stay locked up in the hermetically sealed room we rigged up for you, so our little Plague Rats don't infect you with whatever they caught at school... Government Edict!"
Lots of schools that were open were then forced to shut down because schools literally can’t operate when teachers and students are sick. Kids had to spend days in an “open school” sitting in a cafeteria doing nothing bc there weren’t enough teachers in the building.
WA state schools reopened April 2021 - later than many? - but WA is the state that *didn't* have a red swing
You seem to be going on vibes, but you used to say your intuitions are always wrong
The only thing that makes right-wing assholes happy is total destruction. Fuck them.
No one is arguing that having schools closed was bad but it was still better than DYING.
Like people dying of a fucking deadly virus??
Sounds more important but go off, loser
a massively larger # of COVID deaths
Plus the increasing economic strain such losses would leave behind.
And the kids would STILL be messed up by it.
Especially if a result of that decision is that mNy of them got used to sucking in intellectual slop online instead of learning situational empathy IRL
For laudable reasons progressive folks hate to patronize and manipulate less intelligent folks, and here we are
"My adult child is not equipped for the adult world. Let me (A) punish the people I think are responsible for letting them down and (B) support policies that padded-room the economy so their citizenship is more valuable than their competence"
Conservatives gave up on huffing that many voters don't think rationally and, well, look where it got them
It's fine to be mad the world plays by dumb rules, but don't be surprised if ignoring the rules means we might lose the game
Numbers for all outbreaks from 14th - 18th century are estimated up to 200 million people.
Seems like this should be testable of different places reopened at different times?
Not opposed to the theory (have too many teacher friends to doubt Zoom learning was awful), just expect to see it tested rather than asserted.
Boomers started being born in ‘46. So that puts them squarely in the age range for the Hippie counterculture.
In some places, summer breaks are longer.
Now, the mental and physical impacts of Covid infections, loss of loved ones, uncertainty, etc definitely did have an impact that we should try to understand.
And why have you conveniently left out numbers for Kerry?