Some of the collateral damage from COVID-19: "COVID-19: Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year,

Some of the collateral damage from COVID-19: "COVID-19: Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year, says UNICEF" https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-million-children-globally-have-been-completely-closed https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-milli... "30-40 percent of minority and low-income students weren’t learning during lockdowns" https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leading-through-the-crisis/charting-the-path-to-the-next-normal/30-to-40-percent-of-minority-and-low-income-students-werent-learning-during-lockdowns https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi... "We find that the pandemic led to 97 million more people being in poverty in 2020." - World Bank https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty-turning-corner-pandemic-2021 https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac... "Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period. Persons with prepandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases." https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm7037a3_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm... "Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests, study finds" https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2031 https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2031 And the civil liberties of literally billions of people were curtailed. Just India and China, which both imposed severe lockdowns, collectively have a population of 2.8 billion. In Canada, thousands of people were locked in their room in their last year of their life: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-covid-confinement-1.5969825 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-covid-...