The children we care for today will be the ones who care for us in our adult years.
What appears to be a year or two out of life to live through a pandemic (if you believe what you are told), is the very foundation of our children’s being. This is what they are growing up with, what is forming them.
When we teach them it’s okay to lock the elderly in small rooms, to mask and avoid eye contact, to swap real life for screen life, To disregard the nervous system’s need for faces. To overmedicate the elderly. To let people die alone in hospital, on zoom
When we give them an experimental jab and enroll them in a clinical trial, then this becomes their normality.
We grew up with our normality.
And we did this to them and despite what we may have learnt about connection and compassion.
We did this to the elderly and to the children.
What do you think the children who grew up with this will do to us?
When we are old and vulnerable (if we make it at all).
When we are looking for care, and compassion and connection in our last years?
Their normal is to turn away from connection. To lock and close the doors. To mask and isolate. To experiment with.
What a frightening thought to be in the hands of those who grew up in the ‘new normal’.
I continue to teach my daughter real human values. That socializing is life-giving. That masks suffocate. That experimental trials are not for children. To the best of my ability I give my child what she needs to thrive in a world that wounds others in the name of a virus response.
Not my child.