Well we’ve done nothing to prepare for the next pandemic, we’ve had proof that in crisis people will fight each other before they’ll pull together to help, our social systems continue to be dismantled for profit, everyone except the all-powerful ultra-rich is struggling to afford to live, the world is creeping closer to war, fascists are on the march everywhere, and the planet is being destroyed at a rate that makes this generation’s prospects look like mostly starvation and war. Maybe young people aren’t too stupid to notice some of this?
NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels
Submitted 2 months ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I was seriously appalled with how quick people were to turn on each other during the pandemic. It’s one thing to bitch about people with different politics than yours but quite another to grass up your neighbours for minor infractions. Also the kind of open jingoism between counties/regions during tier-system phase. It made me realise what it must have been like in the soviet union. Shocking to see our own capacity for that.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not a child, but my anxiety levels during the actual pandemic were at my lowest ever (working from home, no annoying socializing, I’m kind of a shut-in). Now, though, they’re definitely higher than before, if only because I experienced how I could be in an ideal way before it was taken away.
match@pawb.social 2 months ago
the “society but different and better” was so nice
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People were actually mindful. We had weekly applause for caregivers (an empty gesture, just pay those people correctly dammit) and now we’re, well, not back to usual but much worse than before).
Naich@lemmings.world 2 months ago
It seems so distant now. To say that we learned nothing from the experience is not quite right. The people in charge learned that even brief glimpses of a better life have to be brutally stamped out to stop the drones getting uppity. Hence the push for return to office, abolition of LTNs, and the ridiculous histeria over 20MPH zones - anything that improves the lives of ordinary people must be stopped.