"Oh hell, it's because they have squinty eyes over there — nothing to do with closed classrooms". Randy Weingarten
/
child abuse
Number of kids who developed nearsightedness in 2020 DOUBLED compared to 2019 due to remote learning and less time spent outside amid the Covid pandemic
A Chinese study found that the rate of new myopia cases among children doubled in 2020 when compared to 2019
In 2019, 7.5% of children who did not have myopia a year earlier were found to have it, which doubled to 15% in 2020
Lifestyle changes such as the implementation of virtual learning during the pandemic hurt children's eye health, the researchers believe
Pandemic related changes to life may have had many long term negative impacts on children, like an increase in mental health issues
on the other hand, do we really want to expose our children to the severely mentally ill?
