That's (probably) correct for the population as a whole, but the case is much less clear as far as kids are concerned. For example, look at the 0-14 graph of e

That's (probably) correct for the population as a whole, but the case is much less clear as far as kids are concerned. For example, look at the 0-14 graph of excess deaths at https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps. It would be very hard to say that 2020 and 2021 are any different from any other year as far as kids are concerned. During that time we had all sorts of lockdown on, lockdown off, masks on, masks off, vaccines, school open, school close, but the graph stays within its normal pre-covid variance irrespective of all these interventions.