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Some of the collateral damage from COVID-19:

"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-...



And last but not least important: Crime soared as masks became normalized. As Vince Staples put it: "No face, no case."


“Crime soared” is false. Some crimes went up, some crimes went down. The overall rates are very low so small changes make big percentages.


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?!!




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