COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Loose Cannon said

It's going to be really interesting to look at the cohort of kids who went through this at various different ages when they're adults to see if there was any sociological impact on them. I wouldn't expect my 19 month old to be impacted by it, but I bet there will be some impact to older kids. They might end up being good things. There might be more value placed on family as they see family units pull together to get through a crisis, etc. Or they might be weirdos that play footsies to introduce themselves. Who knows. It's fascinating to think about though.

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Yeah, all kids react differently, but I think if any group of kids is prepared to do with this it's this generation of kids. They are used to a lot of their social interaction being in either online video games, social media, Twitch, Instagram, Facetime, Discord, etc. So, they were prepared to deal with this in ways that prior generations were not. Of course, some will still not deal well with limited in person social interaction or more likely not deal with with more social interaction with their parents. But, at least with my daughter's peer group, they seem to be supporting each other and helping each other get through this. I mean some of her friends had issues before all this started and this isn't really helping their social anxiety and depression but they are all helping each other.

I think the people having the bigger issue are parents who are having to stay home and actually talk to a deal with their kids when they are not used to doing that. :)

And, regardless of how fast or slow we move toward opening up, less in person social interaction is likely to be the new normal so we are all going to have to get used to it until we get a vaccine and maybe beyond that.