You can't just erase a year and have a good workforce. The long-term costs of this lockdown are enormous.
Students are losing a year in their education
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They don't learn much in a year anyway, so OP is overstating the costs.
they don't learn much curriculum-wise, but a lot of maturation occurs in other areas. moreover the mental atrophy and subsequent inertias of being out of the loop for a year can get pretty devastating for some
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Since all kids of the same generation and across the world are affected, I don’t see how it disadvantages them too much relative to peers when eventually competing for the same schools, universities, jobs, etc.
homeschooled kids used to MOOCs who actually did the coursework (.000001% of pops) are in for a treat
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Since all kids of the same generation and across the world are affected, I don’t see how it disadvantages them too much relative to peers when eventually competing for the same schools, universities, jobs, etc.
What are you talking about? Kids in South Korea and Taiwan are hardly affected.