I was in grad school for all of COVID, it landed pretty much squarely in the middle of my years there, I taught the whole time, and the difference between pre zoom and post zoom cohorts was massive in the worst possible way. This isn’t ’back in my day’, I’m talking differences of like two years.
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Like, it's not for lack of intelligence, or research skills, they just got screwed out of a proper undergrad education.
It’s more “COVID fucked up everyone” including in an already emotionally turbulent period that is adolescence
Suburbs/women/college-educated, all demos favorable to Dems, shifted right too- it’s COVID fucked everyone & we refused to deal w/ it
Schools and Universities were often *way* more restrictive than the rest of the community, which meant that kids and college students were often blamed for spread while being under (and following) more rules than most.
I was teaching at a college during this time, so I know what the choices were like.
This argument IMO is more about being uncomfortable with the idea that a natural disaster is to blame. If people were to blame, that means it was controllable.
We were evaluating the dangers of the virus versus the downsides of keeping schools closed. Esp post vac think we missed the mark.
I honestly don't know how long schools should've been 100 remote, but even if extended shutdowns were the right call, they had really bad effects
And colleges were even more cautious.
Hygiene measures work--they just weren't used.
Leaving stuff closed until 2022 is awful, poor kids.