The Coronavirus has killed all over the world especially the over 80s, affected the work of the over 50s and changed the lives of young people for the worse, from “millennials” or “centennials” to “pandemials”.
Obviously, social status made the difference and the pandemic was less hard for a select few while for many normal people it was very heavy.
In any case, young people have suffered heavy reflections from the point of view of the “modus vivendi” and young Americans have not been outdone.
Closed schools, campuses and universities, the first study projects that do not start, the first occasional jobs that finish before leaving or other part-time jobs that end suddenly.
For generation Z, the most hyper-connected one, those born between 1996 and 2010, the Coronavirus has meant closing even more in their world, relegated to their own rooms to manage all virtual sociality.
According to a survey by Cuso International that used UN data, one in six young people between the ages of 18 and 29 have lost their jobs in America, Latin America and the Caribbean since the start of the pandemic. In addition, many students have had to leave their studies due to a lack of resources or the inability to follow them on the Internet.
The pandemic, in the powerful United States, has thus forced millions of young adults (18-29 years old) to return to their parents, both because the universities where they were studying had closed and because they suddenly found themselves unemployed.
This reverse life path, according to data from the Pew Research Center, only peaked so high in 1940, towards the end of the Great Depression, when 48 percent of young adults were forced to return home to their parents. cause of the economic disaster with widespread unemployment, collapse of the middle class, the drop in consumption and a profound social crisis.
As of July 2020, 52% of young adults resided with one or two of the parents. In 2010, that figure was around 40% and in 2000 it was just 36%.
More than four million people who graduated in the 2019-2020 academic year, according to the U.S. Department of Education, have seen job vacancies canceled and have lost faith in finding more.
At the beginning, many students saw the closure of schools as a momentary break, something almost “acceptable”, but then when the savings ran out and it was no longer possible to pay for the flat shared with their classmates, many had to go back to the road. towards the family home.
A fact that caused a particular sensation in relation to the loss of work concerned the sector of journalists. As many as 36,000 young and old professionals have been fired and this collapse has made the harsh reality even more visible.
The psychological disaster has certainly added to the economic disaster which has particularly affected the new generations who have had to give up social relations by maximizing isolation in virtual space.
According to a June 2020 report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, of nearly 5,500 young people between 18 and 24 who participated in a study, one in four had considered suicide and had taken drugs to support themselves during the pandemic.
But now with the millions of vaccine doses distributed and the many vaccinated people, the life lost in a year and a half of the pandemic is beginning to resume.