I assume that was a reply to me Card Cheat? If that is so, then first of all, of course your parents lives are as valuable as anyone elses. We have, most of us, lost a parent. That isn't what I said. I wasn't comparing the value of a life. But, if we had to do that, then the years lost don't stack up. That is an unfortunate fact.
If we loose a generation of education, and that is where we are heading, how do we, as a species recover from that?
I get that this is emotive to you, but it's also emotive for we parents who have had to nurse our children through this pandemic and explain why they can't go to school, explain why they can't see their friends. My daughter had just turned 8 when this started, she is 10 now and still can't see a way through this. She believes her life is lost already.
Try and be a little bit empathetic for our children who don't understand what is going on.