In my suburb they're feral. Even during the early days of the mandatory lockdown when we were trying to keep it limited to a handful of counties, they were all outside doing normal kid stuff with kids from all of the other houses in an area that connects populations between two states and multiple rural areas. It was when I stopped having any faith in there being a coherent response to this. In public I've seen parents wearing masks and gloves while their three mask-less kids jump on anything they see like plague fleas before running back to grab each other and their parents.
Epidemiology/virology have always been super interesting to me and so I watched all the pandemic films before this ever happened. Not one of those films portrayed it as so goddamn stupid that you have to be morally agnostic toward it to stay sane. I can focus on society collapsing because people are spitting into each others' mouths because like 30% of them reject germ theory or I can focus on bad people catching it. There was never that film where the protagonist wants to scream at an old person for thinking basic hygiene is a Jewish conspiracy.
In my suburb they're feral. Even during the early days of the mandatory lockdown when we were trying to keep it limited to a handful of counties, they were all outside doing normal kid stuff with kids from all of the other houses in an area that connects populations between two states and multiple rural areas. It was when I stopped having any faith in there being a coherent response to this. In public I've seen parents wearing masks and gloves while their three mask-less kids jump on anything they see like plague fleas before running back to grab each other and their parents.
Epidemiology/virology have always been super interesting to me and so I watched all the pandemic films before this ever happened. Not one of those films portrayed it as so goddamn stupid that you have to be morally agnostic toward it to stay sane. I can focus on society collapsing because people are spitting into each others' mouths because like 30% of them reject germ theory or I can focus on bad people catching it. There was never that film where the protagonist wants to scream at an old person for thinking basic hygiene is a Jewish conspiracy.