Remember the Time

New data suggest that the damage from shutting down schools has been worse than almost anyone expected.

Huh, remember when liberals were in the phase during the pandemic that they swore up and down that no one really needed social contact, that in-person schooling didnโ€™t matter, and that kids just fucking loved being cooped up in their homes for months or years at a time (they had STUDIES! So many STUDIES!)?

I remember. Turns out all of that was absolute clownish hogwash. Well, not โ€œturns outโ€ exactly. Quite a few people โ€” including me โ€” told you how harmful all that was at the time. But the narrative certainly leaned hard to the โ€œlockdown foreverโ€ crowd for a while there and now weโ€™re all gonna have to deal with it.