Monica Sager didn’t see her boyfriend for four months after she moved back into her childhood home in Pottstown, Pa., in March. She also didn’t go to any friends’ houses or social events.
Now, her parameters have started to shift. Her boyfriend visited from New York over the Fourth of July weekend, and in August she will move into an apartment with roommates in Worcester, Mass., when she returns for her senior year at Clark University.
...even more the reason for face-to-face exchange vs non-verbal communication such as via social media which can easily enough compel misunderstandings that may even lead to distortions, inaccuracies, negativity, and antagonisms.
Interesting read, I agree! Is there a study or an article about this for middle age or older population? I’ve seen same reaction from older population. People created a “bubble” of friends and family, in my opinion desires to see loved ones are same across all ages.
That makes older dudes like me comforting because I didn't panic during pandemic and thought something is deeply wrong with me. I'm just getting old, that's it!
Those selfish bastards. You selfish bastards.
Or could it be that they recognise that they're personally at low risk? Though I've not seen the mortality risk profile for the USA - in Uk & Europe ~90% deaths are aged 65 - it likely doesn't differ greatly. Average higher levels of underlying health conditions will impact it!
Very true!!! But if they’re mature they understand!!!!
Obviously, some of teens and young adults don't care because they feel that they will not die, but only have mild symptoms. This is an extremely irresponsible performance of the individual.
17 year old grandson: in school 2 days a week; has fast friends who take him out. He has a bubble that’s wider than I like. I’m one a long list of over-75s who need the vaccine sooner rather than later.
The same brain that made some teens drink an entire pint of MD 20/20. It’s not a complicated brain.
This is an interesting & relevant article, ATM, but you could take down the pay wall when it's this old.
Case of too much freedom?
No, It's Bad GOP Parenting. adults with minds of children. Kids raising kids
good luck
If you look at chronological order of Covid 19 events. Media and some medical experts said young people were not being affected negatively like older people. And there you have “the why” they are willing to take more risk.
morgfair My teens are completely understanding of the dangers and have been absolutely social distancing it’s the older generation in my own experience - the baby boomer gen that seems to think it’s no big deal and they are the most at risk!
How can I get this bastion of capitalism (the WSJ) to give me free articles? Seems like another thoughtful article. But I agree with basic premise, and thank heavens it doesn’t hit them as hard as it does the older populations (another likely reason for the casual attitude)
Also complicated when almost the entire media and educational establishment is dominated by tyrannical leftists. Young people don't have the life experience to fend of these Foxes and Cats (Pinocchio) or understand the nuances of snake oil salesmen or other seducers of the young.
MAYBE BECAUSE TEENS DONT GET SICK?!!!!!!
Maybe teenagers are smarter than adults.
Life is a complicated problem.
Laughing as introvert
So why let them vote?
They are wired to reproduce.
Taking risks is living in Spain or Argentina with dictatorials rules due to a fake pandemia. Thanks for your great analisis, why don't you analize PCR tests in your following tweet....remember its inventor, Kary Mullís....🙏🏻
Because young adults are in such low risk of dying from Covid19? Like... Lower then 1%. Stop making Covid19 'dangerous' to everyone, because it's not!
That’s the age group that is immortal until they aren’t.
Let them be. They are the future of herd immunity.
its just called being young as opposed to being like grandpa napping on the couch. they have energy to burn, no science, huhhhhhhhh
Why that art? Being outside and in water is one of the safer options.
Sounds like a domestic violence issue
Not complicated if they are at very low risk from the virus. Can we stop this please? Are we done pretending that this virus has a 2-3% mortality rate and more like a .1%? That would be great if we could do that.
Because they know Bullshit we the see it
College parties during Covid
They are not taking a risk, they have a near zero chance of getting seriously sick, much less dying. They are more statistically literate than the adults
edwincwc Good, they should enjoy their lives.
...that requires more adult empathy for the vulnerable!!
It could be that with climate and economic breakdown that they will have to endure, frankly, they don't give a fuck my dear.
Can't stand teens, or young adults, me. Or, as an aside, children.
Damn but we are also more informed then any of the other generations. Atleast we believe in the virus and that we need to wear a mask
Big fines or if that doesn't help a night in jail does wonders
yes absolutely YES.
How can this group be social? Are they ready to use ' one call close ' skills ? Are they aware that the risks they take lead to jail? Who knows how to triumph under pandemic? Do the answers lie within the basics? Have theirs brains been ' wired ' in prior? Who is responsible?
Maybe but there are numerous types of people. You are lumping them into one enormous (general) category, which is out of touch with reality.
They are also self-centered, so appealing to them to think of others is ignored.
pandemic
Nothing to worry about. Democrats are the party that supports going against nature with ideas that a boy can be a girl.
Luckily it's fizzling out very rapidly. Problem evaporates.
They also have more time and energy to research and crunch the numbers of the fatality rate of the virus.
They also have stronger T Cells for immunity. It's why many don't even know they are fighting the virus.
Teach what is Need and what is Desire. Teach the value of Humanity, Time & money.
Yet some of your fully grown writers use verbiage like “poor & chaotic” to describe an entire country like pakistan
Anyone who lived through their teen years already knows this.
Teenagers and children are not dying from this virus. Let them be kids.
Yes, is it not called immaturity. I thought that had been established a long time ago?!🤔
more room for old people
Why are reporters brains wired left?
So, do all Republicans have teenage brains?
Agreed, those with immature brains and poor decision-making skills shouldn't be voting.
ok boomer
I feel for this group the most
who caused pandemic disaster? CCP, WTO, Dr. Fauci etc
What’s the excuse for the older people ignoring the health recommendations?
Really they are rebelling against you elders who been exaggerating the disease true nature for fear/panic porn. It's what founder Ben Franklin said is not protected free speech i.e. (yelling fire in crowded theater) or calling 911 with deliberate false report today. Fake911Calls
...too many excuses for not exercising common sense, teens live at home w/parents, guardians, adult caregivers, etc. they will do as they are told for the most part, if families are following guidelines, then we would have more hannahwatters out there, thinking consciously...
Reason is we lack good video games. All teenagers want is porn, video games, and snapchat to make themselves busy. Now how can a teenager watch porn and play games all day when their parents don't give them mental space and privacy to do stuff. Just give them Xbox
Or maybe it's built into their DNA to know that avoiding everything kills their immune systems.
Can anyone tell me why not pursuing this drug is the most viable option for humanity? It is proven to work. Turn off the fake news! Stop shaming people with collectivist propaganda and removing freedoms. We live in a capitalist society. Stop listening to the left push communism!
It’s also the reason life sentences, death sentences and three strikes sentences for people under twenty-five is morally wrong and a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Time to end the false narratives and give us the cure already! Bill Gates is not the only answer guys! It works, they are doctors! People don’t need to die and businesses don’t need to shut down for politics! The left is forced communism and we are pissed! Trump 2020!
Could this trait also help in achieving herd immunity?
And then you add adrenaline hormones and being bored. Next thing jump out of the window.
No it doesn't. In my country teenagers and young adults are way more cautious than the adults. It has more to do with culture than brains.
Explains all this odd behavior ....
I’d argue that some of them are brain dead entirely.
Even more complicated is an incompetent executive. Teens exist all over the world and other countries aren’t dying at the rates we are.
We are all going to o get it. U can’t stop it.
Idiots.
MonicaSager3 This is so cool MonicaSager3!
Complicated problem with comunism!
And they aren’t part of the risk group.
Oh please and this is news to anyone? Anyone been a teenager, think their invulnerable and take risks that as adults we look back and think... ya that was dumb! Show of hands.. yup everyone!
The only thing is, they are least experienced hence can't imagine aftermath of their act. they don't know, what they don't know... it's this simple... why it looks complicated to you?
It’s a complicated problem in the USA
Please also monitor the package and 5G for memory erasure. It has been found to harm young minds and cause memory loss in school areas. Be aware and fight for real broadband like we used to have
Because they keep more animal spirit when young.
Nothing biological about it. It's about poor parenting.
They simply know they are at ~0 risk. No need to overcomplicate things. We don’t need Dr. Freud. This isn’t bungee jumping.
The very same group tends to support radical left agenda.😂
It’s called being a kid
They see right through Bill Gates’ plandemic. They know this “medical guidance” is bullshit. These are edicts not laws passed by any legislative body.
False presumption. Their is no risk to begin with. Enough already.
Because of overconfidence & this may be the reasons for the fluctuations in their brain for not knowing the real problem & it's consiquencies.
The teenager are still very young so therefore the energy is higher and the body is still very strong and so the risk taking processes and decisions are less cumbersome to them.
YET... another excuse? Stupidity and selfishness is the reason why people can't follow quarantine measures. Don't try to blame it on anything else. 🧐
Why they shouldn’t vote
It is especially important to have good, truthful leadership as the young are easily influenced by the powerful. Wear a mask and more. =
Teens’ brains thanksfully are also wired to THINK AND QUESTION, unlike most adults’ who have been relentlessly taught to submit and comply. We see through all your game because we KNOW what is going on. exposed flooding compliance
FYI... people.... ...the 'teenage brain' is totally antagonistic to everything authoritarian in life. For example, by the time I turned 21, which was the legal drinking age in Indiana (back in the 1970's)... ...I already wanted to quit drinking, and give up alcohol forever.
The restrictions should be ignored.
But is that really the case or just this generation? Being an 80s kid, in the 'mono', herpes, chickenpox era, we freaked over everything. Had a classmate who got chickenpox at 14-15 & he was out for 6 wks, we all freaked that we were nxt even tho we'd gotten boosters.
Nice of you to try to make excuses for my generation but most of them just don't care about anybody else... pandemic or not!
Also, research has indicated that the adolescent brain is not fully developed until the age of about 25-26
Well I’m one of these young adults who feels the same way. I understand that we need to be safe and wear masks which I will do but at the same time, I want to see friends
Why not? The young will drag us over the line to herdimmunity, and potentially inoculate themselves against COVID21 or SARSCoV3. They just need to avoid prolonged, close, exposure to their grandparents and old fart professors.
'take more risks' A young person at a party has less risk than a masked octogenarian at Walmart.
The wires you are talking about are called hormones, which are created by the brain and made by glands. The reason teens and young adults are doing what you did, and all of us is wanting to be gregarious 'biological mandate'.
The brains of live-forever Boomers, nervous Facebook Moms, and media-brainwashed Millenials make them less social and risk-averse - a complicated problem during a lockdown.
Who installed it?.
Actually, it makes them highly irrational. Like Democrats, in fact.
Hey here’s some things you can write about this week GDP drop largest in history 40 million out of work No plan to address the pandemic to prevent unnecessary illness and death Oh, and Russian Bounties
Not good. At least now all the kids are stuck inside doing tiktok. If tiktokban is real, then they are going to go socialize like pre-tiktok. That's right . It's a complicated problem, expecially during a pandemic.
How about the brain of realDonaldTrump. How would you explain that during a pandemic?
Incompetence of media and pro-lockdown officials have also made people ignore the standards. Also because they’re completely arbitrary.
Makes sense.
Learning working AGAINST them
I mean it’s simple neurology - the prefrontal cortex which measures risk etc. isn’t fully developed until age 25 or so. That doesn’t mean that people under 25 are complete sociopaths, just that they generally have less fear and have higher risk tolerances. 1/2
Wow, maybe they should just try being less selfish and needy?
Its called living their lives rather than extending them as long as possible
So some boomers have teenage brains?
All they have to do is open a Robinhood account and join Fintwit.
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