Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by Wohlf on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:01PM
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I would hazard a guess that it has to do with a lot of American schools being made during the Cold War, and designed to double as emergency shelters.
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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by Lammy on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:36PM
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That was the impression I always got from my 1984-built Elementary school building. It was all concrete block construction with odd roof angles taken low to the ground. Many fond memories of using the Macintosh LCs in a completely-windowless freezing-cold chamber in the center of the building.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by mywittyname on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @05:11PM
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Not just the cold war. My elementary school was originally from the early 20th century and it had the vestiges of the subsequent wars: bomb shelter signs, eerie hallways without windows, heavy metal doors to transition between sections of the building.
Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds
by jstarfish on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:31PM
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> My elementary school was originally from the early 20th century and it had the vestiges of the subsequent wars: bomb shelter signs, eerie hallways without windows, heavy metal doors to transition between sections of the building.
Some/all of that have less to do with war and more to do with general disaster preparedness.
* Bomb shelters provide shelter from...bombs, yeah
* Windowless hallways provide shelter from tornadoes (no glass to break/become shrapnel)
* The heavy metal doors are firewalls that automatically close when the alarm goes off (most are hollow, won't do shit against assault weapons and predate even Columbine)