re: #178 Belafon

About half of school is the social aspect, a necessary part of growing up, and we will need to figure that out.

“It takes a village.”

Children can socialise and play in small groups of parents who, in the time of conservative genocide, hold to small groups of others they trust not to do things such as break quarantines or ignore health safety rules.

Mostly this involves cutting conservatives out of your groups.

It doesn’t matter if you live in a tiny town like mine or a megopolis like New York. It does involve getting to know those who live around you and whether they accept things like medical consensus. Those who disdain experts because they are experts, or those who get their degrees from Internet U should be pushed out of your life for your own safety.

In fact, living in a large city offers more chance for children to socialise safely with people than in a small insular conservative town like mine. (Fortunately here we are reorganising schooling for children since our two school districts are closed. Even people without children can volunteer time to educate children, and they can play together here as long as we remain virus-free in my town.)

If this is not possible for whatever reason, then you are left with two choices concerning children and socialisation. You can choose between the importance of socialising, or the importance of life, because if they are dead they won’t be socialising anyway. The trauma of missing friendships as a child pales to the trauma of losing one or both parents to disease and wondering if you were the cause.