Pandemic Lockdowns May Have Slowed Babies’ Communication Skills

re: COVID

Lockdowns killed, maimed, damaged.

Pandemic Lockdowns May Have Slowed Babies’ Communication Skills

2022-10-24. Emphasis added.

When social interaction came to a halt during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, newborn babies missed out on vital communication milestones, researchers say.

A new Irish study found about 25 percent of these new babies spent a year without ever meeting a child their own age. Incidental interactions with strangers and community members at grocery stores or play groups didn’t happen. They rarely had a chance to wave “bye-bye.”

But it’s not a cause for parents to worry, cautioned lead study author Dr. Susan Byrne, a senior lecturer in pediatrics and child health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland.

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WIND: babies may be resilient, but what about damage to children and young adults? Medical treatment delayed for adults. Lockdowns kill, governments kill.

Here in California, the “emergency” is planned to last until Feb 23, 2023. No, that’s not a joke: it is planned to be an emergency; data and reality need not be considered.