1. Given that the vast majority of Covid deaths happened above retirement age, and this was pretty obvious very early on, there's very little weight to this argument.
2. What we did do in response to Covid will instead financially, educationally, and socially cripple those who already were living paycheck-to-paycheck, and make sure they stay that way for a long time.
3. So I assume you are mad at all of the upper-class families, especially those in political power who enacted the school closures, who continued to send their kids to private schools throughout the pandemic, thus furthering the spread of Covid?
> 1. Given that the vast majority of Covid deaths happened above retirement age, and this was pretty obvious very early on, there's very little weight to this argument.
COVID killed 19k people 30-39 which is 6% excess deaths, killed 46k people 40-49 which is 10% excess deaths and 201k people 50-64 which is 11% excess deaths.
The Vietnam war killed 58,000 Americans.
> 3. So I assume you are mad at all of the upper-class families, especially those in political power who enacted the school closures, who continued to send their kids to private schools throughout the pandemic, thus furthering the spread of Covid?
If they were doing that, yes. (And I can't understand how you'd think this would be some kind of 'gotcha' or that I wouldn't consider that actually worse).
The problem is that your account is coming across as a single-purpose flamewar account on a divisive topic. That kind of thing isn't in the intended spirit of the site.
It's fine to express a minority viewpoint but if that's the main thing you're doing, on a single divisive topic, then you aren't using HN as intended.
Can you please stop creating accounts to do this kind of thing? We end up having to ban them because they're not what this site is for. I don't have any problem with your views (I don't even know what they are, actually) but we need users here to use HN in the intended spirit, which is above all curiosity. Hardened battle from fixed positions is the opposite of that.
> So I assume you are mad at all of the upper-class families, especially those in political power who enacted the school closures, who continued to send their kids to private schools throughout the pandemic, thus furthering the spread of Covid?
Once you realize most of the people in favor of those mitigations fall into this bucket… it kinda starts to make sense. There is a reason so many in the laptop class supported this crap. They directly benifited from it.
Where I live (Wales, UK), the official government statistics on post-Covid school absences makes for troubling reading. It goes from "slight increase in absence" for middle-class kids, to "the upcoming generation will be uneducated" for certain socioeconomic groups.
This is also an excellent argument for why we should not unthinkingly trust statements from governments, given the tools of social manipulation they have available.
At least here in the UK, the official advice if a family member caught Covid was to isolate them in a separate room, with no allowances made for children. Sounds like we already tried this!
