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user-inactivated  ·  1323 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 12, 2020

    But she's 19 and invincible (as we all were at 19) and there just isn't a way to impress upon her what a lifetime of odd blood, lung, and liver problems would be like, even if she fully "recovers" from a bout of COVID.

I'm not saying scare her, but I say maybe impress upon her that health problems add up over time. Say, she gets the Covid in her twenties and gets heart and lung problems from it. Then in her thirties, she gets in a car wreck and gets back problems from it. Then in her fifties, arthritis is starting in. By the time she's hitting her sixties, she has chronic heart and lung problems, chronic back pain, and arthritis. It's why we work so hard to take care of our bodies, to reduce the number of problems we have.





goobster  ·  1323 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah... WE know that, because we are old.

But you can't impress upon a young person what their actions will mean for them later in life. They simply aren't wired that way. Yet.

I am going to bring up the diving thing to her. If she can't dive ever again even before she graduates from college... THAT could have the type of meaningful impact that could get through.