What terrible damage was inflicted on our children by our many incompetent politicians by their totally exaggerated response to Covid-19 since early 2020, we will find out in coming years! That response was like returning to the medieval ages! This was a colossal government failure! Government paternalism has run amok! Besides children, there are so many other collateral damages!
As I have said here on my blog several times before and as early as April 2020 (see here, here, here), latest by June 2020 it was obvious that SARS-Cov-2 is a fairly harmless virus. In particular, the virus, as it was clear by then, does not affect children.
"The pandemic has hit American children hard. The combined impact of school closures, social isolation, household financial instability and, for many, the trauma of losing a loved one won't be fully understood for years. Testing data show that third-to eighth-grade students underperformed in math in 2020 compared with the previous year. And McKinsey estimates that Covid-related learning losses among U.S. kindergarten to 12th-grade students will reduce their lifetime earnings ... In addition, psychologists say the more major traumas and stressful situations a child experiences, the deeper the lasting damage tends to be, with children living in poverty or those who suffer from anxiety and depression at particular risk. ..." (Source)
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