Now that, as President Joe Biden told “60 Minutes,” the pandemic is over, a lot of truths that were suppressed can be told. We know that school shutdowns were disastrous for academics, and “remote learning” wasn’t even close to patching the problem. It was October when The Atlantic published a piece suggesting that we “declare a pandemic amnesty” and forgive and forget. After all, we knew so little at the beginning of the pandemic. But we also knew that kids were at the lowest risk of contracting COVID-19 and dying from it. Still, teachers didn’t want to catch it from their students and made that clear by them writing their own obituaries and sending them to the governor.
We also know that the lockdowns were a mental health disaster, and not even the CDC can overlook just how bad it got.
"The CDC found 45 pct of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost 1 in 5 seriously considered suicide and 9 pct surveyed tried to take their lives during previous 12 months."https://t.co/W9ijllRnVv
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 6, 2022
None of this should have come as a surprise. This, from early 2021: https://t.co/ECsTdsDHSp
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) December 6, 2022
It’s not a surprise.
We warned these bastards repeatedly that this was happening. That it would get far worse. They did it anyway. https://t.co/7nsenhLi2w
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) December 6, 2022
In the early months of the pandemic, I remember my 6th grader telling me that he even missed the kids that he didn't even like at school. It was more than just social milestones, simply the daily routine of trying to get along with others in society was equally important to him.
— Renee Aste (@reneeaste) December 6, 2022
Thats what you get from putting adults before children while dealing with the pandemic.
Children were the less affected by COVID by every stat and they were the ones forced to sacrificed the most— A Ghoul from Eldia (@aGhoulfromEldia) December 6, 2022
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But kids are resilient!
I have a teenage daughter. I have seen it first hand
— Dave Barrett (@kittybone) December 6, 2022
Maybe living in a wokescold world where everyone is constantly prejudiced and judgmental towards each other is miserable existence.
Perhaps time to rethink "social justice" activism, let kids be kids, let them figure themselves out, let them rediscover life, learning, and fun.
— David Krae ~ notthecartoonvillaininyourhead (@DavidKrae) December 6, 2022
It was obscene that U.S. public schools were shut for a year and a half and bars left opened–and it still is. Still waiting for the powers-that-be to assume responsibility and apologize.
— Lucinda Rosenfeld (@lucindaros) December 6, 2022
— Alvaroidz (@Alvaroidz) December 6, 2022
January of 2022.
Not the pandemic…reckless actions taken to deal with the pandemic with NO consideration for collateral damage. Public health, medical establishment and politicians are all responsible
— highertrust (@highertrust) December 6, 2022
Weird. Who could have guessed that isolating kids from their friends while simultaneously making them believe that they were likely going to die or kill their grandma by spreading a deadly infectious disease to her would have such a profound mental impact on them?
— Alberto Perez (@AlperezPerez) December 6, 2022
There’s actually one person in the replies blaming Donald Trump for making the world worse, and that’s the real cause of mental issues with the young. Where’s that vaccine for TDS?
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Atlantic piece suggests we ‘declare a pandemic amnesty’ and just forgive everyone who got COVID wrong https://t.co/eqlKFpMdWs
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 31, 2022
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