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Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

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Re: Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

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... Because parents already suffering with anxiety from living through these years, need additional anxiety about the 'performance' of their children in the years coming.

Enjoy life and be gentle with each other, that's the performance that matters.

Re: Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

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How the toddlers of today growing up with fully masked teachers during their institutionalized education will manage to develop normal social skills without being able to see people’s faces is beyond me.

Hopefully by the time it becomes a problem, we can all just hide behind our avatars inside the Metaverse. /s

Re: Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

#6

... Because parents already suffering with anxiety from living through these years, need additional anxiety about the 'performance' of their children in the years coming. Enjoy life and be gentle with each other, that's the performance that matters.

Would you prefer society just ignores this inconvenient fact?

The risk of developmental issues was obvious to many people at the beginning of the lockdowns. Now we have some data. It will help us make better decisions in the future.

Every choice has consequences.

Re: Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

#8

How the toddlers of today growing up with fully masked teachers during their institutionalized education will manage to develop normal social skills without being able to see people’s faces is beyond me.

They will manage just fine, because they are exposed to enough maskless people at home and in other social settings. And even in schools, kids often don't follow mask mandates, especially when the teacher steps out, or sets an example by wearing a chin diaper during class.

Re: Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

#10
At this point in the pandemic we've should have come up with models that factor in the externalities of lockdown and factor that into policy decisions. That somehow still hasn't happened. People say "things are pretty much back to normal" but parents with kids in school know this is not true.
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