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The second and third order effects from society's misguided Covid response will, over time, prove much much worse than the effects of the actual virus.
Cause these are year and half or so old at max.
They didn’t test these children for antibodies. They just assume that infection is not the cause of the differences they see. And all the commenters seem to be blaming lockdowns.
I haven't seen any evidence for covid causing neurodegenerative problems, so it sounds logical to point at the change in environment. Even "Long Covid" sounds a lot like undiagnosed depression or chronic fatigue syndrome.
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The inconvenient fact incontrovertibly established by a non-peer reviewed paper that most of HN probably just read the abstract of anyways? I "love" how you and the comment below can take a "be gentle with each other" comment and turn it into a springboard for your anti-lockdown rhetoric. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Anecdotal, but I have a 5 and a 3 years old and missed nursery has been terrible for their development. You don't even need a study for this, it's just common sense for people who have interacted with a toddler in their life before and after nursery (after 2-3 years old, I wouldn't recommend sending them before - they tend to not be ready for social life and not having one dedicated adult to them)
Lots of common sense things turn out to be false, and the plural of anecdote is not data. We absolutely need studies.
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.
The world didn’t go back to normal after 9/11, it’s not going to happen now either.
If it’s not COVID it’ll just be the next pandemic.
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I would bet on the growth of notepads and smartphone usage by children 0-2 age. There are evidences that electronics and smart screens are destructive for the cognitive development of infants, while they are super easy to adopt by lazy parents. Click on some YTube show and baby won’t bother you for the next hour or two.
no chance this guy has kids. ppl said this same thing about television. if you read newspaper clippings from the early 20th century you can find letters to the editor about parents concerned their kids read too many books
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The large scale antivax movement for one.
Antivaxxers tend to use scientific/rational language though, as opposed to new age vibes or what they heard from their priests. They’re using a modernist mindset, they just happen to be wrong.
They are certainly not using a scientific mindset - they are just using language that sounds scientific, so it sounds smart and solid. But is not, when you look closer and try to find their data and sources. But common people does not do that - and fall for it. It is basically fraud, in most instances.
Nothing about that paper inspires confidence.
Would love to see the raw data, but from their own plots you can see that 2017, 2018 and 2019 show a trend that would make the 2020 and 2021 data consistent with the trend. As they show data comparing 2020 and 2021 to the previous years, they could have shown a matrix to compare year over year across the data. I will wait for someone to look at the raw data and peer review the paper before jumping to conclusions. I'm…
Edit: was intended as response to a reply to this. Appreciate the caution. We took a different approach. Unlimited screen time. Our daughter’s rate of learning is incredible. She willingly explores IRL play. No battles when we ask her to put down her iPad. Roblox and Minecraft are our shared playtime. I was homeschooled with no TV. My experience of her development is similar to what I experienced with my siblings. A…
Personally I wonder whether there's a big difference between playing YouTube stimulation videos vs logic puzzle/math/mystery games vs the latest dopamine-addiction-of-day game
Would love to see the raw data, but from their own plots you can see that 2017, 2018 and 2019 show a trend that would make the 2020 and 2021 data consistent with the trend. As they show data comparing 2020 and 2021 to the previous years, they could have shown a matrix to compare year over year across the data. I will wait for someone to look at the raw data and peer review the paper before jumping to conclusions. I'm…
Edit: was intended as response to a reply to this. Appreciate the caution. We took a different approach. Unlimited screen time. Our daughter’s rate of learning is incredible. She willingly explores IRL play. No battles when we ask her to put down her iPad. Roblox and Minecraft are our shared playtime. I was homeschooled with no TV. My experience of her development is similar to what I experienced with my siblings. A…
It’s been nothing but great!
They turned into information sponges with a huge amount of knowledge about the world, way ahead of their peers.
Our son watches a lot of extrem sports YouTube content which always inspires him to push harder to get better at those sports himself.
He is the only one in his class who will tackle the large half pipes at the local dirt park for example. It’s the result of watching the pro’s do it on YouTube and then practicing relentlessly!
Society has this thing where everything new is stamped as bad…book, bad! Bicycles, bad! Radio, bad!, TV, bad! Computer games, bad! Drugs, bad! Sugar, bad! People are just a bunch of scaredy cats
We ought to provide kids some more nuance about the things in the world
Is there bad things to watch or do on your screens, like scary stuff or things that are incredibly dull…absolutely. But the only way to learn what that is, is to let them experience it and learn.