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