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I mean.. we locked children in their homes for 12-24 months. Quite literally, my kids could not: attend school, take swim lessons, do gymnastics, play soccer fo

I mean.. we locked children in their homes for 12-24 months. Quite literally, my kids could not: attend school, take swim lessons, do gymnastics, play soccer for 24 months without severe restrictions. Further, other parents were concerned to the point the sniffles or a covid exposure would limit our ability to get together for 3-14 days. Finally, you had parents also stuck home trying to raise kids in this environment and often would end up eating out / getting pre-packaged meals because there simply wasn't time. Luckily, we had a yard, so I could at least get my kids outside and we'd play. Eventually, I ended up just moving because 18-20 months into this thing Illinois was still having a mask mandate for 2yr olds plus. I think it was finally lifted from schools after 24 months - https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-mask-mandate-covid-20220215-j3kxib4tzreudd2cg7xehqwtpu-list.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-illinois-mask-... I should add, many places still required it, it just wasn't mandated. They still were shutting down the classrooms every for a couple weeks at a time if 1 covid case was identified. This ended up meaning 25%+ of the time my kids were home. My general point, if you feed kids a bad diet & remove their ability to exercise yeah -- type 2 diabetes.

NickBeee 3y ago
> locked children in their homes for 12-24 months So you LITERALLY sit at home ALL THE TIME for a year? Even China didn't had 12 Month lockdowns! > mask mandate lifted from schools after 24 months so locked at home or just mask mandates?
- lettergram 3y ago
  > So you LITERALLY I was using the collective “we”. My family had a yard and had kids playing outside. We eventually just moved to somewhere not doing any of the restrictions. BUT where I was living did restrict severely for a prolonged period.
watwut 3y ago
My kids were not locked in our home. They were outside literally every day. And I live in a city apartment and we had lockdowns. They socialization did suffer and they missed some sports practice, but they did had enough of healthy physical movement.
- lettergram 3y ago
  Sure, glad you did that. Like I said, we were outside in the yard and very active. I can easily imagine plenty of peers & neighbors not letting their kids out to play. That’s how it was where I lived. I’m sure play dates were canceled. I’m sure parents staying at home didn’t get their kids as much exercise as gym class. I’m also confident many parents just gave their kids tablets to entertain them. You mention yourself missed sports practice. At a massive scale many children in the margins do get more overweight and that correlates with increased type 2 diabetes.
  - watwut 3y ago
    I do not know anyone who would not have kids going outside. Literally anyone. Yes some socialization was cancelled. Some people kept socializing with one or two friend families. Literally no one I know about kept kids inside 24/7 the way you suggested. In general, parents who do put less effort into children were also the ones took lockdowns least seriously - meaning their kids were about as usual minus school.
    - lettergram 3y ago
      This isn't hard to imagine. Imagine you're in NYC, school is closed, gyms are closed, swimming is closed, beaches are closed. You have to work and your kids are home. How do you get them activity? You send your 4 year old down the hall to run around? what exactly? That's an extreme example, but even in the suburbs I saw a dramatic reduction in available activities & children participating in activities. Even a 25% reduction in activity for marginal kids (i.e. on the kid of getting type 2 diabetes) would probably push a significant portion over the edge and become diabetics.
      - watwut 3y ago
        We just went to a park or walk. That sort of stuff. Not everything needs to be an organized activity. Maybe the suburbs are in even worst position then city, since you are completely limited to own backyard with nowhere to go if it is nor paid and organized.

NickBeee 3y ago

> locked children in their homes for 12-24 months So you LITERALLY sit at home ALL THE TIME for a year? Even China didn't had 12 Month lockdowns! > mask mandate lifted from schools after 24 months so locked at home or just mask mandates?

lettergram 3y ago
> So you LITERALLY I was using the collective “we”. My family had a yard and had kids playing outside. We eventually just moved to somewhere not doing any of the restrictions. BUT where I was living did restrict severely for a prolonged period.

watwut 3y ago

My kids were not locked in our home. They were outside literally every day. And I live in a city apartment and we had lockdowns. They socialization did suffer and they missed some sports practice, but they did had enough of healthy physical movement.

lettergram 3y ago
Sure, glad you did that. Like I said, we were outside in the yard and very active. I can easily imagine plenty of peers & neighbors not letting their kids out to play. That’s how it was where I lived. I’m sure play dates were canceled. I’m sure parents staying at home didn’t get their kids as much exercise as gym class. I’m also confident many parents just gave their kids tablets to entertain them. You mention yourself missed sports practice. At a massive scale many children in the margins do get more overweight and that correlates with increased type 2 diabetes.
- watwut 3y ago
  I do not know anyone who would not have kids going outside. Literally anyone. Yes some socialization was cancelled. Some people kept socializing with one or two friend families. Literally no one I know about kept kids inside 24/7 the way you suggested. In general, parents who do put less effort into children were also the ones took lockdowns least seriously - meaning their kids were about as usual minus school.
  - lettergram 3y ago
    This isn't hard to imagine. Imagine you're in NYC, school is closed, gyms are closed, swimming is closed, beaches are closed. You have to work and your kids are home. How do you get them activity? You send your 4 year old down the hall to run around? what exactly? That's an extreme example, but even in the suburbs I saw a dramatic reduction in available activities & children participating in activities. Even a 25% reduction in activity for marginal kids (i.e. on the kid of getting type 2 diabetes) would probably push a significant portion over the edge and become diabetics.
    - watwut 3y ago
      We just went to a park or walk. That sort of stuff. Not everything needs to be an organized activity. Maybe the suburbs are in even worst position then city, since you are completely limited to own backyard with nowhere to go if it is nor paid and organized.