"Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period. Persons with prepandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases."
And the civil liberties of literally billions of people were curtailed. Just India and China, which both imposed severe lockdowns, collectively have a population of 2.8 billion.
In Canada, thousands of people were locked in their room in their last year of their life:
So crime soared if we look at the rate of increase by percentage. But it didn't soar if we close our eyes. Got it. It's still soaring at the moment but I didn't include percentage signs in my calculations, what's going on, oyy veigh?!!
"COVID-19: Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year, says UNICEF"
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-milli...
"30-40 percent of minority and low-income students weren’t learning during lockdowns"
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...
"We find that the pandemic led to 97 million more people being in poverty in 2020." - World Bank
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac...
"Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period. Persons with prepandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases."
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...
"Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests, study finds"
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2031
And the civil liberties of literally billions of people were curtailed. Just India and China, which both imposed severe lockdowns, collectively have a population of 2.8 billion.
In Canada, thousands of people were locked in their room in their last year of their life:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-covid-...