EU fractures and kids (parents) flake

The EU is still in trouble and S Jenkins has drawn an obvious implication:

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the truth about the EU: it's not a real union 

The arguing over a financial rescue package for hard-hit states shows that even member states don’t trust Europe

The reason was glaringly obvious, and as old as the EU itself. The northern European nations within the eurozone still do not trust the hard-pressed southern ones to spend money wisely and pay back their debt

Finally a last-minute package was agreed, for €500bn of emergency loan finance. This was little more than an extension of the existing European stability mechanism, designed to help individual countries in short-term emergencies. Even then, it was a mere third of what the European Central Bank had said was needed, €1.5tn euros. What was specifically not agreed was any sharing of the economic burden of the pandemic across European treasuries in general. It was mostly more loans....For the first time in 75 years, large numbers of Europeans are simply unable to buy food. Their erstwhile employers face bankruptcy, and their banks face collapse

[The EU] lacks accountable leadership to make consent effective...The pandemic has revived a faith in local community, and in a shared sense of nationhood. Yet the reaction of key European governments to this financial emergency has been like that of the British people in 2016. They don’t trust the EU with their money. What you don’t trust with your money is not a union.

 Welcome back S Jenkins!

 

Meanwhile, the spread of flakiness, which long preceded the virus, seems to have caused more damage.This is the shouty GRaun headline

Fifth of primary children afraid to leave house over Covid-19, survey finds

The findings do not look very representative though and the actual conclusion of the report is rather less dramatic:

The results are based on the responses of 1,500 parents who have so far signed up to the Co-SPACE (Covid-19 Supporting Parents, Adolescents and Children in Epidemics) survey... their older children are significantly less worried, though researchers point out it can be hard for parents to know what their adolescent children are feeling.

But one of the things we can see here is that the majority of children are not worrying excessively about it, but seem to be taking it in their stride. There are, however, a significant sub-group who are reporting high levels of worry.”

The results indicate that anxiety levels are much greater among parents than their children. 

It's that same vicarious flaking that we saw in Operation Fear?