@L-B-Heuschkel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Grabbing a moment to vent about the person who just in all seriousness told me that I don't understand what it's like at all for someone to be quarantined for weeks and not able to leave their house. Because I have lived like this for years and hence I am used to it, and it's not hard for me.
Yeah, sure. I mean, I don't mind at all not being able to walk, no worries, it's permanent, that makes it cool.
The conversation I keep having is the 'this proves that we should have people work and school from home all the time! It's so easy!'
usually said by people who are on furlough / still working because their job literally cannot be done from home.
Like, yes, if working from home works for you: great. It doesn't for everyone. And it requires a certain level of discipline that not everyone has.
And schooling online is a whole other bag. Part of why it took me so long to pursue my degree is while I can work from home, I don't learn great without a structured environment. Online school is basically audio/visual learning only and a relatively small number of people benefit from that style of instruction. I'm very much someone who is hands-on, who needs to be able to see things done and then mimic so that I can see myself go through the process. Video calls help this, but they're also not as feasible. There's no replacement for a teacher moving around the classroom to see people at their work and spot where help is needed.
And 'but what about their parents' is not valid, either. As someone who had to homeschool (my parents wouldn't enroll me in a school for HS: I asked, often)....my mother barely graduated herself and would stare blankly at my work. My father's style of teaching was 'yell until I got it or left in tears' (usually the latter). Or worse: kids with bad home environments?
I think the unfortunate thing is that quarantine is still 'novel' to a lot of people and seen as a fun-thing-to-do (which, I guess is OK if it means they're staying home).