I can believe this certainly in the first wave of lockdowns. I would wonder a lot however what happened in the 2nd/3rd and so on for places that had them. I do

I can believe this certainly in the first wave of lockdowns. I would wonder a lot however what happened in the 2nd/3rd and so on for places that had them. I do find it slightly annoying that there seems to be a default uncritical acceptance of the view that lockdown was universally terrible for kids mental health when I know first hand of several examples where it wasn't at all. I feel like some amount of that is a fig leaf over the fact that many kids are living in unhealthy environments at home to begin with. So lockdown means they are exposed to more of that, but it's not the lockdown causing the harm it is the home environment where they are exposed to harmful factors.