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It’s surprising how many people think about lockdowns as some kind of a 1h drill.

Kids, and many people for that matter, cannot just stay in lockdown for months like domestic cats without triggering mental health issues.

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And going out of lockdown you get things like a spiking of RSV infections (in turn apparently enough to noticeably fill up children's hospitals in some countries) because kids are now "catching up" in one go with all the infections they normally would have had spread out over the course of the last year or two.

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