COVID-19 Pandemic - Never forget that “The pandemic did such-and-such” is always a euphemism for “The lockdowns did such-and-such.”

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Edward Feser @FeserEdward Yes. Never forget that "The pandemic did such-and- such" is always a euphemism for "The lockdowns did such-and-such." (You remember, those lockdowns that did no net good but inflicted massive economic, psychological, and social harm too.) Newman Nahas @NahasNewman - Oct 11 Weird how the pandemic didn't have this effect in Sweden. Show this thread The New York Times The Coronavirus Pandemic > The Pandemic Erased Two Decades of Progress in Math and Reading Map and Cases Updated Booster The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable. Give this article 4:55 PM - Oct 11, 2022. Twitter Web App 39 Retweets 2 Quote Tweets 175 Likes 27 3 492 ↑

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Panuru

Oct 12, 2022 at 08:05PM EDT in reply to No One Is Immune to Bias

See, that's a completely valid alternate interpretation. Remote learning exacerbated the performance differences between haves and have-nots, the South is generally poorer, so they had a more intense drop for a shorter period that gave the same slippage as a less intense drop for a longer period elsewhere. What we don't need is some doofus like the tweet spouting off "Closures did it!" without any actual data supporting that.

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Panuru

Oct 12, 2022 at 03:11PM EDT

If it was a matter of lockdown, US states with shorter lockdown periods would have had smaller drops and those with longer lockdown periods would have had greater drops. That's not the case.

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