Pandemic babies starting school now: ‘We need speech therapists five days a week’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39kry9j3rno

Posted by pajamakitten

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  1. The effects of Long Lockdown will be with us for at least the length of the lives of these pandemic babies, maybe longer.

    It’s one of the many areas where we didn’t “follow the science”. It was one of the reasons why in their recent enquiry testimonies the likes of Vallance and Whitty were still not as Lockdown Happy as the likes of Hancock or Cummings.

    But unfortunately the science lost and upper middle-class “yay, Joe Wicks and sourdough, let’s lockdown for longer!” sensibilities won out instead.

    This is one tax Rachel Reeves should introduce. The financially secure property owner cohort of 2020-21 should be paying a permanent 10% tax surcharge for the rest of their lives to repay a small amount of the damage that was done to satisfy that group.

  2. Ok-Philosophy4182 on

    Let’s not forget. If it were up to teachers unions we would still be in lockdown – people who opposed this at the time were treated like they supported eugenics.