Are you saying that watching every major institution fail them in the midst of a global pandemi--one at least half of the adults around them denied the existence of--may have had negative mental health consequences for young people?
Yes, remote teaching and learning sucked. But getting long covid or dying sucks worse. It was a global fucking pandemic. There were no good options--we just had to find the least worst
Even outside of the cardiac issues we now know are quite common among recovered kids, plenty of kids infected at school then spread it to parents or grandparents, with far more devastating repercussions in older family members. The WH killing school reopening policy recs from CDC cost lives.
Apr 30, 2025 21:04(I knew people who worked on developing the evidence-based recs, only to have a WH doc saying “nah it’s fine” routed through the office of the director signed off and deliberately published <24h before the evidence-based one…then used to justify August 2020 full returns without mitigation measures)
which is to say – I don’t think it was particularly great for kids’ mental health to have inadvertently been the vector of disease to older family members or teachers or bus drivers or [__] who were disabled or died as a result!
