leesa

Super but that wasn't really the focus of my point. There is a shift going on where people are kind of deciding that someone had it coming because they weren't "healthy"
Isn't that a slippery slope? Does noone else see the danger here?

Even if the figure is "only" 125 kids that have died... how many other scenarios have we had in the world where 125 kids have died from a single cause and it's not seen as a massive tragedy? So many people in society seem to be accepting it as kind of okay because the kids were probably not "healthy".

We've already seen people be told it's basically their own fault if they have an unhealthy lifestyle and die from covid. We're also seeing people generally accept the deaths when there's an underlying health issue that wasn't their fault, even if the person who died was a kid.... but most people in the world have an underlying health issue of some kind.
(https://www.livescience.com/51122-wo...-problems.html and https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0608081753.htm)

Where is the line drawn on which issues people are okay with when it leads to death? Are we going to see that line creep outwards a bit?
It's not going to be much of a stretch to apply that lack of empathy to other people with other health conditions and have society basically willing to exchange their life for the convenience of the rest of the world too. Cystic fibrosis? born with HIV? Quadriplegic after a car accident?

I don't know if it's just a psychological thing that eases peoples' anxiety in the presence of stress or what. There was already a worldwide decline of empathy before the pandemic but it's going to be interesting to see what the world looks like in 5 years