I note Red Squirrel just (mis)used the word "narrative" in each of his last three posts. In none of them did it make any sense. It's a kind of linguistic 'tic' that signifies that the speaker isn't thinking, but just repeating second-hand cut-and-paste arguments.
Reality is we need to learn to live with it like the flu, it's ridiculous to just keep the narrative going status quo for ever like you people seem to want.
The narrative is dead, just admit it.
The children are the most negatively impacted by the narrative so it makes sense they would want to be fighting too but I do agree they should have perhaps not been included as there was no way to know in the beginning how things could turn.