“They could’ve found better solutions if they'd only asked us first.”
Max, who is from Denmark, was in college when the first lockdown was enforced. During the pandemic, he did not feel he was being listened to or consulted by adults – they did what they thought was best, without asking. He believes the decision-makers thought they knew what youth needed but is convinced that youth would have come up with better solutions if they had been asked. Max thinks that the schools should at least have provided solutions for communication between students.
If another pandemic were to break out in the future, Max emphasises that the priority should be to provide a concrete platform on which youth can communicate, make suggestions, assess and provide data for others to act upon – and, if possible, keep the schools open.