I'm skeptical of this being pandemic related solely because I never see kids wearing masks at all, but obviously they don't have the money to buy them for themselves if their parents aren't masking and are more likely to just stay home in general so it's hard to know for sure. I haven't seen or heard a single teenager be like "it's fucked up everyone's pretending COVID disappeared when it didn't". I think anxiety is just getting worse in general and the pandemic and greedflation et al. are causing their home lives to be worse.
We also can’t discount the role advancing technology is having in atomizing and alienating kids from one another. I think it compounds the mental health crisis and especially adds to social anxiety
I'm skeptical of this being pandemic related solely because I never see kids wearing masks at all, but obviously they don't have the money to buy them for themselves if their parents aren't masking and are more likely to just stay home in general so it's hard to know for sure. I haven't seen or heard a single teenager be like "it's fucked up everyone's pretending COVID disappeared when it didn't". I think anxiety is just getting worse in general and the pandemic and greedflation et al. are causing their home lives to be worse.
Consider that damaged health from Covid infections might be a factor
We also can’t discount the role advancing technology is having in atomizing and alienating kids from one another. I think it compounds the mental health crisis and especially adds to social anxiety
i mean who hears anything beyond ironic jokes about school shootings until one happens and they do a march all the adults ignore?