No idea how families in those states got through these last two years. Incredibly thankful our state government and local school district never masked our children and kept schools open the entire year.
When a child tested positive, they stayed home. The rest of the class continued on like they always have when someone got sick. And everyone survived!
I'm not saying it has not impact on social development but people here are blowing it out of proportion when a lot of this generation was already growing up glued to devices to begin with instead of going outside and experiencing the world.
The worst thing this pandemic taught us was that it was that we prioritized surviving over living but that's been a thing since advances in medicine made us feel like they were entitled to live into our 80s or more.