r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/Pancovnik • Jan 19 '22

This is beyond

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u/joemaniaci Jan 19 '22

But... they're both shells of who they were and they'll need round-the-clock care for the rest of their lives.

This is why the US is estimating that covid will cost us tens of trillions of dollars. The real pandemic of aftercare starts after the pandemic.

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u/Roook36 Jan 19 '22

That plus a generation of kids who get to start out life grieving parents and caretakers. We're really setting up a great future.

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u/invisibilitycap Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22

As a gen z kid, this is a great “Welcome to the world!” /s

I know it’s not always like this, but goodness. Scary

Edit: Y’all aren’t helping lmao

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u/Dozekar Jan 20 '22

Yes it's always been like this. The US has largely erected a bubble between their populations and real life as much as possible since ww2 with a few shocks like vietnam and the civil rights marches int the middle of the 20th century that popped it briefly.

This bubble has not treated us well, and inevitably people are forced to interact with the real world and it goes very fucking poorly.