I'm asking:

“Why is nobody involved in research, strategy, policy & “big ideas” connecting the dots on COVID & attendance?”

“Why are the “big ideas” folks ignoring the impact of COVID on children's cognition & learning?”

“Why are they bigwigging around ignoring research?”

2. As a result, the current sharp delineation between infectious disease and chronic disease will come to be seen as a relic of an outdated paradigm. It is perfectly possible that the prevention of pathogenic infection could be the key to vastly increasing healthspan.

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Exactly this. It's easier to blame parenting, mobile phones and "lockdowns" rather than face the awful truth that we have repeatedly exposed children to a virus which damages the brain.