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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by rllearneratwork on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:01PM (#30076358)
Mask mandates and lockdowns have an enormous costs.

* It is estimated that lockdowns killed at least 238,000 kids in South Asia [1]

* In rich parts of the world kids, especially from poor families, suffer from a huge loss in learning. Our school's district (in Bay Area) psychologist said that most of their 3-5 year old suffer from speech and social delays. Try booking speech or ABA therapy for a kid in Bay Area - they are all booked for months in advance.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56425115

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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by alphabettsy on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:51PM (#30077079)
> Try booking speech or ABA therapy for a kid in Bay Area

Wasn’t this already the case nearly nationwide?

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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by rllearneratwork on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:04PM (#30077253)
Not sure what do you mean by "already", but according to the ones we spoke - they are seeing a huge spike in demand this last year (which they correlate with masks and lack of in-person learning in very young kids).

[*] "Masks Can Be Detrimental to Babies’ Speech and Language Development" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-can-be-detr...

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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by alphabettsy on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:56PM (#30077906)
Couldn’t the spike in demand be related to all the articles talking about this issue?

I believe kids are better off in school and that the pandemic and response has certainly had an effect, but I can’t imagine that most parents would even know to consult a speech therapist otherwise unless suggested by the school as is usually the case.

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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by Kye on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:56PM (#30081498)
I've never heard good things about ABA from people who actually went through it, so maybe this is for the best.
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