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What are you talking about?

Between 2018 and 2022, we had a global pandemic hit!

The only reason we were "digitalizing education" is because millions of people were getting sick and dying. Millions more lost their jobs.

Trying to blame any single aspect of what happened during that period, like moving to remote learning, is hopelessly myopic and blinkered.

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We haven’t had a pandemic between 2022 and 2026. The 2018 trend continues. That strongly suggests a common effect across both samples.

It suggests a lot of things, none of which are remotely intelligible with the information we have. The result as always is that people fill those gaps with their pet issues, whatever’s hot today, and tend to ignore anything that doesn’t fit their constructed narrative.

If I understand you correctly, you are using Covid-19 as a means to justify any position (or broad classes of them) which is convenient to you. I say this because you're using it in a broad way, and making an appeal to specific prejudices.

Not in the least.

I am saying that if you want to justify saying that a particular statistical anomaly that occurred during the 2020-2023 timeframe is not wholly or nearly wholly caused by the pandemic and its direct and indirect effects, you better have some damn good data to prove it.

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