> Or maybe they were free to focus on their favorite hobbies and started a successful career.

Kinda hard to do if you are trapped at home with an abusive family. For many kids school is not just education but a sanctuary from a broken home.

It takes a lot of privilege to support closing schools for any duration of time—especially two years.

> Or maybe they were free to focus on their favorite hobbies and started a successful career

yea the young kids who are forming hobbies, instead of say learning to read or talk

Lets not overdramatize and we will have a stronger speech.

To start, kids don't learn how to talk in the school. Not normally and if they are so young as to not being able to talk still, school is basically a convenience parking for toddlers.

We shouldn't adjust the laws to the saddest history that we can find. Treating everybody in a population as if all of them were outliers does not give the desired results.

Children are able to learn in lots of places apart of the school. Yes, is a fact. They can learn a lot for example from their grandpas and grandma. Of course, as long as their grandparents are alive because they were smarter than the fake news and the 'magufo' crew.

We have plenty of numbers now that show the effects of lockdown on kids.

The effects are especially clear for the disadvantaged who struggled before.

And all of this could easily have been predicted. Maybe people pointed it out, even. Sadly they were deplatformed, mocked, called “grandma killers” and kicked out of the conversation.