Quote Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh View Post
I don't take this personal and enjoy the dialogue. My take is until a kid turns 18, it's up to the parents since they are considered a minor. You can't vote or enlist in the military without parental permission until you're 18, yet we want to give them the ability to make these decisions. Hell, at that age I thought I was invincible. All the examples you provide should be done with parental input.
I agree with this. If parents want to put their kids on lock downs, that's the role they're actually supposed to play.

Quote Originally Posted by Gutter Cobreh View Post
You can't do anything sports related these days without signing COVID waivers. Why is that? It's to protect the entity sanctioning those events. I think my view is pretty global regarding this. With all due respect, this topic appears to be hitting home for you for whatever reason (but I could be completely off base). Irregardless, having different opinions isn't always a negative.
It's actually not hitting close to me. We haven't had any negative financial impacts. Schools closing were certainly bad for our kids like they were for most kids and they were starting to show some wear around the edges from the social distancing (although I'm not sure how much was from them missing their friends versus picking up on it wearing on us), but they were at I would guess as easy an age as it could be as far as not really missing out on stuff that would make lasting impressions on them.

I would be handling it very poorly if it were hitting us particularly hard just because so many of the negative impacts are needlessly self-inflicted. And the panic and poor logic and risk assessments would be much more forgivable if there wasn't so much bad faith and dishonesty involved.