My daughter spent her life as an enthusiastic overachieving 4.8 GPA student (ie: threatening to finish college while still in 11th grade).  This pandemic and its isolation has brought this all crashing down.  We have another appointment with SAMHSHA; to get clearance to be allowed back in school now.   In the Philippines, I have a brother-in-law, a jailer, who nearly ended up on a ventillator with covid; and another nurse in the family that got it three times.  Most of our family in Philippines is running into a far worse employment situation than they had before the lockdowns.<br><br>When I show up to work at the office, I am the only one on most days.  I hate these lockdowns with everything inside of me; and get angry with the people refusing vaccinations, as they are part of the implicit agreement for people to get back to work, and without demanding ridiculous benefits escalation and hazard pay.<br><br>The lockdowns made sense for the short amount of time in which there were no vaccines available, and we could not ask people to risk bankruptcy in an ER, in jobs in which health insurance cannot match the risks of going back in.  The continued lockdowns pose an existential risk to civilization itself.  Civilization is animal farming, dense populations, and controlling the disease spread that is a part of it.