In addition to the long accurate list of assaults on the college kids, don't forget being forced to take multiple injections, which for the average college student have a risk/benefit ratio much greater than 1, and now have to worry for the rest of their lives that they will have a premature heart attack due to a prior vax induced subclinical myocarditis.
The harm perpetrated on our university kids is immeasurable. I speak from first-hand experience. Even school kids got to go back to school - albeit in restricted form. There was at least some modicum of socialisation. For university kids? Nothing. Banished to their rooms and screens for close on two years. Not even murderers get punished with such extreme isolation. Lecturers cowered at home - then became comfortable. Didn't want to return. I will never, ever, ever forgive our university for doing what it did to my children. Never mind the other originators and perpetrators of the madness of those horror years. I can't even begin to relate what was suffered - not just by my one child, who got hit hardest, but our entire family. I don't know if it will ever be fixed. My child is all but broken. We are broken. Our family is shattered. The depression, the suicidal ideation, the self harm, the regressive emotional state, arrested social development, rage, medication, extreme ups and downs, tics, OCD. Personality change from vivacious and hopeful to reclusive, secretive. So angry. Closed doors and worry. The retreat into anodyne online wasting of time, comfort watching of endless digital entertainment as substitute for the real thing. The missed opportunities to form relationships. Fall in love. The knock-on effect for our entire family. The helplessness, sleepless nights, unending anxiety, knife-edge atmosphere. The therapy which doesn't feel adequate. The bills, the pills. The dreams revised downwards, halted, stalled. The giant question mark over a now uncertain future.
If I could cast a hex on the perpetrators, ensure their eternal damnation and secure their place in hell, for ever - I would do it. I don't know that I trust the day of final judgement to exact adequate justice. It's too long to wait. I want to look them in their eyes and pour all of the pain into their barren souls and see them burn in all of the agony which we felt these last few years, and still do, and which cannot begin to be quantified or forgiven.
Why did colleges have mandates? Barring unvaccinated students from campus was pretty egregious. The shots did not prevent transmission and had no long term safety studies, the manufacturers had zero liability, and students are at low risk from Covid. In some colleges the faculty—older, higher risk—were not required to get vaccinated but students were. This makes no sense. We don’t know what the long term effects of this policy may be.
Here's a piece where I try to summarize some of the topics that didn't get enough attention in the recent 3-hour interview Joe Rogan did with Bobby Kennedy.
They didn't talk about the "human costs of campus closures" ... but I wish they would have.
Another important aspect not specifically pointed out, though alluded to is the immediate loss of income and entry level work experience. While what follows is specific to Japan, much applies elsewhere.
College students were hit in a more immediate financial way by being barred from working. The closures caused by “lockdowns lite” helped enforce this prohibition by also denying them open positions to fill if they were not willing to follow the restrictions their schools placed upon them. This is a big deal for all college students, I worked multiple jobs myself while in college. However, it is customary for even high schools in Japan to forbid their students from holding jobs and is enforced through filling their time with required school activities. Not all high schools do, but many and perhaps most do.
It is also devastating to those who were able to attend class, even if only online. Not only did they miss all the social interaction that are unique to campus life, they were even denied the life milestones of graduation. Here in Japan, the school entrance ceremony is of immense importance. While in movies in the States, we may see a photo of the actor or actress playing a character in their high school football jersey or basketball uniform, in Japan they show the family photo outside the school gate after the entrance ceremony. These too have been missed for everyone entering elementary, Jr. High, High school and University in Japan for at least two years. For many schools, these were not held for three years.
Of a level of importance greater than we Americans can comprehend, are the “club” activities for university students in Japan. To get into a university in Japan for many requires giving up their childhood. This is, in my opinion, why and how so many young adults in Japan have such poor interpersonal skills. Instead of playing in the park with friends from the neighborhood, they go to cram schools, some kind of sport training and study at home. It is once they get into university that they learn to socialize in the manner Japanese society requires.
Using the med school I teach at as an example, 3rd year students un the clubs, having 2 years experience in them. We just restarted on campus instruction this April. Third year students have zero experience with their university level clubs. They most likely have experience in High School clubs, but this is ancient memory for them. Freshman students have zero experience at all as their high schools have not allowed these for 3 years.
The question of if the damage is permanent and temporary has been asked. For the individuals involved, it is permanent.
In addition to the long accurate list of assaults on the college kids, don't forget being forced to take multiple injections, which for the average college student have a risk/benefit ratio much greater than 1, and now have to worry for the rest of their lives that they will have a premature heart attack due to a prior vax induced subclinical myocarditis.
The harm perpetrated on our university kids is immeasurable. I speak from first-hand experience. Even school kids got to go back to school - albeit in restricted form. There was at least some modicum of socialisation. For university kids? Nothing. Banished to their rooms and screens for close on two years. Not even murderers get punished with such extreme isolation. Lecturers cowered at home - then became comfortable. Didn't want to return. I will never, ever, ever forgive our university for doing what it did to my children. Never mind the other originators and perpetrators of the madness of those horror years. I can't even begin to relate what was suffered - not just by my one child, who got hit hardest, but our entire family. I don't know if it will ever be fixed. My child is all but broken. We are broken. Our family is shattered. The depression, the suicidal ideation, the self harm, the regressive emotional state, arrested social development, rage, medication, extreme ups and downs, tics, OCD. Personality change from vivacious and hopeful to reclusive, secretive. So angry. Closed doors and worry. The retreat into anodyne online wasting of time, comfort watching of endless digital entertainment as substitute for the real thing. The missed opportunities to form relationships. Fall in love. The knock-on effect for our entire family. The helplessness, sleepless nights, unending anxiety, knife-edge atmosphere. The therapy which doesn't feel adequate. The bills, the pills. The dreams revised downwards, halted, stalled. The giant question mark over a now uncertain future.
If I could cast a hex on the perpetrators, ensure their eternal damnation and secure their place in hell, for ever - I would do it. I don't know that I trust the day of final judgement to exact adequate justice. It's too long to wait. I want to look them in their eyes and pour all of the pain into their barren souls and see them burn in all of the agony which we felt these last few years, and still do, and which cannot begin to be quantified or forgiven.
Why did colleges have mandates? Barring unvaccinated students from campus was pretty egregious. The shots did not prevent transmission and had no long term safety studies, the manufacturers had zero liability, and students are at low risk from Covid. In some colleges the faculty—older, higher risk—were not required to get vaccinated but students were. This makes no sense. We don’t know what the long term effects of this policy may be.
But all those kids are prescribed antidepressants. A huge market for big pharma...once again they win.
Here's a piece where I try to summarize some of the topics that didn't get enough attention in the recent 3-hour interview Joe Rogan did with Bobby Kennedy.
They didn't talk about the "human costs of campus closures" ... but I wish they would have.
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/rogans-rfk-interview-is-full-of-vitally?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Another important aspect not specifically pointed out, though alluded to is the immediate loss of income and entry level work experience. While what follows is specific to Japan, much applies elsewhere.
College students were hit in a more immediate financial way by being barred from working. The closures caused by “lockdowns lite” helped enforce this prohibition by also denying them open positions to fill if they were not willing to follow the restrictions their schools placed upon them. This is a big deal for all college students, I worked multiple jobs myself while in college. However, it is customary for even high schools in Japan to forbid their students from holding jobs and is enforced through filling their time with required school activities. Not all high schools do, but many and perhaps most do.
It is also devastating to those who were able to attend class, even if only online. Not only did they miss all the social interaction that are unique to campus life, they were even denied the life milestones of graduation. Here in Japan, the school entrance ceremony is of immense importance. While in movies in the States, we may see a photo of the actor or actress playing a character in their high school football jersey or basketball uniform, in Japan they show the family photo outside the school gate after the entrance ceremony. These too have been missed for everyone entering elementary, Jr. High, High school and University in Japan for at least two years. For many schools, these were not held for three years.
Of a level of importance greater than we Americans can comprehend, are the “club” activities for university students in Japan. To get into a university in Japan for many requires giving up their childhood. This is, in my opinion, why and how so many young adults in Japan have such poor interpersonal skills. Instead of playing in the park with friends from the neighborhood, they go to cram schools, some kind of sport training and study at home. It is once they get into university that they learn to socialize in the manner Japanese society requires.
Using the med school I teach at as an example, 3rd year students un the clubs, having 2 years experience in them. We just restarted on campus instruction this April. Third year students have zero experience with their university level clubs. They most likely have experience in High School clubs, but this is ancient memory for them. Freshman students have zero experience at all as their high schools have not allowed these for 3 years.
The question of if the damage is permanent and temporary has been asked. For the individuals involved, it is permanent.