Would you be surprised to learn that this article doesn't mention any health effects of getting covid, a virus that can cause brain damage?

Sussman and Frankel are not alone in their anxiety. Eli is one of more than 3.6 million children born in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic who are walking into elementary schools across the country this fall. They're children who came into a world full of masked adults dousing themselves in hand sanitizer. Many spent the first year of their lives either in isolation in lockdowns or with only a handful of trusted people in their bubbles. And the long-term impact on these "COVID kindergartners" remains unclear.

Maybe we should ban hand sanitizer?

A 2023 study published in Epic Research found that children who turned 2 between October and December 2021 were about 32% more likely to have a speech delay diagnosis than those who turned 2 in 2018. That rate increased dramatically, up to nearly 88%, for children who turned 2 between January and March 2023. Overall, the speech delay diagnoses increased from an average of 9% of children in 2018 to nearly 17% in the first quarter of 2023.

Did people mask at home around their babies? How many strangers do infants normally interact with for significant periods of time? Wierd how having more time with their parents due to brief lockdowns wasn't a good thing.

School attendance and preschool enrollment levels have also suffered since the pandemic. The U.S. Department of Education's most recent study on attendance found that the rate of chronic absenteeism — which is when students miss 10% or more of school — averaged 28% across the country during the 2022-2023 school year.

Would you be surprised to learn they don't mention several years of record rates of other diseases like RSV, Strep, and Flu in relation to these statistics?

Anyway, it's certainly not the disease that causes brain damage and memory problems, or how it takes a toll on our immune system, it was our reaction to the virus that was the real problem becuase it disrupted our routines.

Here's another news article that's probably not related to the brain damaging virus we are letting infect everyone: Memory problems increase among Nordic children. The article entertains the theory that cell towers and microwaves are to blame, but I'm pretty sure the problem is hand sanitizer.

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