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Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re... by chatmasta on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:36PM (#22678730)
Children/teenagers are also losing a time of their life they will never get back. For example, if you're a junior in high school looking to get recruited to college for a spring sport, you're basically out of luck. This kind of extended hiatus from everyday life can alter entire life trajectories.
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Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re... by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:07PM (#22679010)
> For example, if you're a junior in high school looking to get recruited to college for a spring sport, you're basically out of luck.

Isn't that same for every junior in high school? Are recruiters going to be happy to miss out an entire year?

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Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re... by chatmasta on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:31PM (#22679236)
Sure. The kids who are disadvantaged are the ones who were poised to have a breakout year this season. So recruiters just won’t notice them, as opposed to the prospects that were already known.

Basically, anyone is disadvantaged who would normally have a small window of opportunity to prove something right now.

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Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re... by gvjddbnvdrbv on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:48PM (#22678834)
Death alters it rather more.

Without these measures a lot of folk will die a lot sooner than they should.

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Re:Our Self-Isolating Future: How working from home could re... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @06:35PM (#22679821)
Come on, man. Acknowledging the harms of an extended lockdown isn't an argument that we should ignore the harms of death.
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