r/unitedkingdom • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '24

Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/09/covid-lockdowns-prematurely-aged-girls-brains-more-than-boys-study-finds
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u/-strawberryfrog- Sep 09 '24

The lockdowns are clearly gonna be blamed for literally every collective and individual ill from now until 2050. Actually I bet the lockdowns are gonna be blamed for the way 2020s kids will be parenting their own children, and for those kids’ shitty life outcomes. If we’re lucky the Covid lockdowns will provide “scientific” “research” fodder for the next 60-70 years! It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

How do you think that they wouldn’t have caused any harm though? You can’t possibly just think this will be used to shrug off issues as though the lockdowns didn’t cause very real suffering? Not unless you were so personally privileged that it just flew over your head.

The suspension of support systems, the fears and impacts of the most vulnerable, the lack of access of green spaces for those locked down in tower blocks for example… those locked down with abusers..

Are you really just going to disregard all of that suffering and pretend it won’t have had any impact?

Why?

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u/chronicnerv Sep 10 '24

My niece was many children her age developed speech months and months later than normal babies because they could not see everyone's mouths speaking due to the face masks. That is a simple example of how a piece of cloth can delay the learning ability by months alone.

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u/TurbulentData961 Sep 11 '24

In Japan they have been wearing masks on the tube and when sick and more for years every winter. So long as you actively speak to them , include them in convos and no baby talk they should bounce back