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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
If you care about education and child welfare, you should take 15 minutes out of your life to google and learn about the long-term effects of school disruptions. I’d link to the hosts of studies around the globe that have been done on this, but I’m kinda busy this morning. Maybe later.
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Sure, it sucked for kids but it's not like there was an alternative. I remember reading many stories of teacher shortages because they were all sick with covid. While you are looking for stories, you can also look up the long term brain damage caused by repeated infections and the devastating effects of long covid.
It was never as simple as deciding to just keep schools open. And if that was the ultimate priority, stopping unnecessary gatherings and requiring masking "for the children" would have been a choice to make. Nobody made that choice. Which meant tough decisions on in person learning. And that doesn't even get into the realities around hospital capacity. So banging on this drum of the damage caused by lost weeks of education is a silly distraction from what the facts were.
Want less of that next time? Major changes in pandemic handling need to be made, and it sure as #### doesn't revolve around ignoring vaccines and catering to the most selfish slice of the population.