Oh, I agree. There will be a lot of fallout from this in so many different ways. I have a niece who has an infant daughter, and she has become very very scared of anyone else, more so than usual separation anxiety. I hope this won’t affect her in some deep way.
I’ve been concerned with the effect of this on kids ever since we “flattened the curve” three months ago. Especially of the effects on young boys watching their fathers cower before politicians, scared senseless of germs, wearing their face diaper everywhere they go, many out of work, and so forth. As raising a young boy into manhood — teaching his son with words and behavior how to behave and live as a decent, productive man — is the primary responsibility of a dad, I look at what many American “men” have devolved into over the past several months and wonder — truly wonder — what their sons will think of their father’s behavior today when they reach adulthood.