I do not like this idea that lockdown is a mere inconvenience like having to take the stairs instead of using an elevator. It’s very obvious lockdown, even the quarter-ass lockdown the US tried to implement, would have a negative effect on people. Only a particular type of ND could actually thrive under lockdown conditions. However, despite the negative effect, lockdown is overall necessary if we want to actually live in a post-Covid world and not be forever stuck with Covid. It’s like a medicine with pretty terrible side effects but that is also the only way to treat a particular disease.

In my more cynical moments, I believe the US essentially did the worst of two worlds. The US only did lockdown enough to tank an entire generation’s social development, but Covid was still allowed to let it rip, so now you have kids with poor social skills and a body ruined by Covid.