<story><title>I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york_city_public_high_school_student/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>I think I&amp;#x27;m getting something different from this than what the author intended.&lt;p&gt;* They mention their study hall as a &amp;quot;super spreader event&amp;quot;.  This feels...hysterical to me.  Not just because it worries me that this kid is thinking about this in the way they are, but also because it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;.  The risk this person faces is much more likely from the HVAC system in the school, not the study hall.&lt;p&gt;* The way they talk about the other kid asking questions &amp;quot;with their mask down&amp;quot;.  To be obsessed with this sort of minutiae as a kid is scary to me.&lt;p&gt;* Kids thinking about test...and apparently being given something like 5 tests in &lt;i&gt;a single day&lt;/i&gt;?  This seems wasteful &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; hysterical on behalf of the school.&lt;p&gt;* Begin upset at kids for taking these tests in the bathroom instead of at home.&lt;p&gt;It just seems like there is a whole realm of paranoia that this kid is trying to fit on top of their life, and I don&amp;#x27;t think this sort of paranoia is in any way reasonable.&lt;p&gt;I think that teaching kids to think about their world with this framing, and at a formative age, is and already has done major damage to their development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cipheredStones</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s minutiae to be concerned when someone who &lt;i&gt;just tested positive for covid&lt;/i&gt; is talking to you with their mask down?</text></comment>
<story><title>I am a New York City public high school student. The situation is beyond control</title><url>https://reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/rxwnbl/i_am_a_new_york_city_public_high_school_student/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thepasswordis</author><text>I think I&amp;#x27;m getting something different from this than what the author intended.&lt;p&gt;* They mention their study hall as a &amp;quot;super spreader event&amp;quot;.  This feels...hysterical to me.  Not just because it worries me that this kid is thinking about this in the way they are, but also because it&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;wrong&lt;/i&gt;.  The risk this person faces is much more likely from the HVAC system in the school, not the study hall.&lt;p&gt;* The way they talk about the other kid asking questions &amp;quot;with their mask down&amp;quot;.  To be obsessed with this sort of minutiae as a kid is scary to me.&lt;p&gt;* Kids thinking about test...and apparently being given something like 5 tests in &lt;i&gt;a single day&lt;/i&gt;?  This seems wasteful &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; hysterical on behalf of the school.&lt;p&gt;* Begin upset at kids for taking these tests in the bathroom instead of at home.&lt;p&gt;It just seems like there is a whole realm of paranoia that this kid is trying to fit on top of their life, and I don&amp;#x27;t think this sort of paranoia is in any way reasonable.&lt;p&gt;I think that teaching kids to think about their world with this framing, and at a formative age, is and already has done major damage to their development.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>starkd</author><text>Indeed, it&amp;#x27;s truly sad.  It&amp;#x27;s an inability to deal with risk out of all proportion to the reality it actually poses.  From his comments, I wonder if he actually thinks he will be dead from standing next to someone who just tested positive.  The preliminary results from UK and SA indicate that this recent wave could be a blessing in that it serves as an innoculation rather than severe illness.  And children his age are not at a great risk to begin with.</text></comment>