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[Article] The long-term impact of school closures on children is lockdown’s unspoken horror (archive.is)
posted 2 years ago by yvaN_ehT_nioJ 2 years ago by yvaN_ehT_nioJ +24 / -0
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– StupidPrizeWinner 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

If I wanted to cripple the development an entire generation of children, I can hardly imagine a better way than government mandated isolation, enforced by law and social pressure, with daily reminders of how good this miserable experience is and how bad people who try to go against it are, unless they are engaging in "fiery, but most peaceful protests."

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– dagthegnome 14 points 2 years ago +14 / -0

And on top of that forcing children to wear masks whenever they're in public and forcing everyone they interact with outside their household also to wear masks so that their ability to read and interpret facial expressions and social queues is permanently hindered. The effect that must have has on the social development of young children is incalculable.

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– deleted 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0
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– dagthegnome 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

No one should be allowed to be a teacher who doesn't have children of their own.

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– MLGS 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

We're at the point where you'd have to purge the entire staff at a lot of schools, replace them exclusively with people who have grandchildren and four American citizen grandparents, and torch every textbook published before 1960 just to start undoing the rot.

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– realerfunction 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

based and correct

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

The ghetto highschool I went to probably already teaches from them.

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– StupidPrizeWinner 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

You make good points, though I would not say the effect is incalculable, just not a calculation that anyone on the left will consider for at least a generation.

I will say that the damage can likely be mitigated through training and practice, similar to occupational therapy for autistic children, but again the calculations must be done for the problem to be addressed, so these kids are definitely behind the curve for the foreseeable future.

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– deleted 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0
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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ [S] 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

Laws in the sense of a specific act signed by a legislature, no. But broadly speaking the agencies have their power because the legislatures gave it to them and the courts (to the extent that complaints have been brought before them) decided these agencies were not wrongly using the power vested in them.

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– StupidPrizeWinner 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

You would be correct. I had misremembered people losing their jobs as a consequence of laws being passed, not mandates being enforced. Thank you.

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– JiggsawCalrissian 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Soft tyranny enforced not by written law but social mechanisms.

Why they now say "no one forced you to"

Like in New Brunswick how no one forced anyone to not be able to buy groceries without qn experimental injection 🙄🙄🙄

The govt didn't do it, they just made not doing it a humiliation ritual with financial penalties

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– JiggsawCalrissian 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

Only after the building has burned down are we permitted to question the wisdom of putting the gas cans next to the fireplace

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– TisDaRhythmOfDaNight 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

and now the response is "why do you care that was 3 years ago"

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– Gizortnik 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

Simple Solution: Ban state education.

The government can't make your kids retarded by banning them from keeping the schools closed, if it's not their school to close.

On the other hand, at least will get more of the based low-end, mid-wit bell-curve people.

Midwit: "You need to accept that the white supremacist cishetero capitalist patriarchy should be destroyed with praxis that undermines oppressive matricies of violence through sexual traditions. That is why PRIDE is important. Don't you care about children?"

Baz: "Luv me flag. No nonces. Simple As."

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– when_we_win_remember 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

I agree with you, but even bans on public sector unions would have got the schools back open. You can't have people who are getting paid vote whether they want to go back to work. However that comes about. More than one business discovered that in the pandemic.

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– ghostfox1_ 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

If only literally anyone saw this coming. If only...

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– deleted 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

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