So you LITERALLY sit at home ALL THE TIME for a year? Even China didn't had 12 Month lockdowns!
> mask mandate lifted from schools after 24 months so locked at home or just mask mandates?
I was using the collective “we”.
My family had a yard and had kids playing outside. We eventually just moved to somewhere not doing any of the restrictions.
BUT where I was living did restrict severely for a prolonged period.
I can easily imagine plenty of peers & neighbors not letting their kids out to play. That’s how it was where I lived. I’m sure play dates were canceled. I’m sure parents staying at home didn’t get their kids as much exercise as gym class. I’m also confident many parents just gave their kids tablets to entertain them.
You mention yourself missed sports practice. At a massive scale many children in the margins do get more overweight and that correlates with increased type 2 diabetes.
In general, parents who do put less effort into children were also the ones took lockdowns least seriously - meaning their kids were about as usual minus school.
Imagine you're in NYC, school is closed, gyms are closed, swimming is closed, beaches are closed. You have to work and your kids are home. How do you get them activity? You send your 4 year old down the hall to run around? what exactly?
That's an extreme example, but even in the suburbs I saw a dramatic reduction in available activities & children participating in activities.
Even a 25% reduction in activity for marginal kids (i.e. on the kid of getting type 2 diabetes) would probably push a significant portion over the edge and become diabetics.
> We just went to a park or walk.
At one point, such venues were closed across an entire Canadian province with a population of about 14,000,000 people at the time. To give a sense of scale, that population would make Ontario the 5th-most-populous US state, if it were one.
"Ontario closes all playgrounds, sports facilities and off-leash dog parks"
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-closes-all-playgrounds-sp...
A trip to the park or engaging in outdoor activity could have easily resulted in steep fines in much of Canada.
Here are some examples of such incidents:
"Coronavirus: Oakville, Ont., family hit with $880 ticket after going rollerblading"
https://globalnews.ca/news/6810568/coronavirus-oakville-onta...
"Britannia man fined $880 while walking dog through Britannia Park"
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/britannia-man-fine...
"First Winnipeg public health ticket handed out to scofflaw skateboarder"
https://globalnews.ca/news/6895000/first-winnipeg-public-hea...
"Chin-ups in the park net Toronto man $880 fine as provinces enforce stricter measures"
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/chin-ups-in-the-pa...
"Coronavirus: Man fined $750 for playing basketball in Kitchener park"
https://globalnews.ca/news/6783242/kitchener-basketball-man-...
"Dartmouth man who went to Shubie Park fined for violating state of emergency regulations"
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/dartmouth-man-who-went-to-shubie...
Luckily, we had a yard, so I could at least get my kids outside and we'd play. Eventually, I ended up just moving because 18-20 months into this thing Illinois was still having a mask mandate for 2yr olds plus. I think it was finally lifted from schools after 24 months - https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-mask-...
I should add, many places still required it, it just wasn't mandated. They still were shutting down the classrooms every for a couple weeks at a time if 1 covid case was identified. This ended up meaning 25%+ of the time my kids were home.
My general point, if you feed kids a bad diet & remove their ability to exercise yeah -- type 2 diabetes.