Posted on 09/10/2024 8:37:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Covid lockdowns, such as school closures, canceled sports activities and stay-at-home orders, prematurely aged teen brains by as much as four years, researchers from the University of Washington found.
The new study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is more evidence of how disruptions to daily routines may have contributed to behavioral problems, an increase in eating disorders, anxiety and depression in adolescent girls and boys.
Scientists at the university's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) began the study using MRIs in 2018 to see how the brain structure of 160 teens from the Seattle area developed over time. The participants, a nearly equal number of boys and girls, ranged in age from 9 to 19 at the start of the study.
Lead researcher Patricia Kuhl, co-director of I-LABS, said that after Covid lockdowns began in 2020, they couldn’t do brain scan follow-ups until 2021. So they shifted the focus of the study to learn how the lockdowns had affected adolescent brain structure.
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It's probably step 1 of the media shifting the blame to Trump. They'll say that Trump was in office during the lockdowns, blame him, not Kamala. Hoping we all forget it was the Dim states that did the lockdowns.
So am I.
Great point
Teens today are so weak ,D’oh
The states all cited fed guidance....”CDC recommends”. Hospitals do what CDC and CMMS say else their funding gets pulled. States don’t want. They fall in line.
Fedzilla is still a problem for which Trump bears some responsibility.
Everyone was negatively impacted by the covid lockdown. Humans are social beings and we were all isolated. Even those of us who were out and about had fewer interactions with others. I can see the difference in my current dog, which was at the socialization phase of development just prior to lockdown. It doesn’t know how to interact with other people and dogs.
That’s exactly what I think they’re doing. Of course, he went AGAINST the tide and, withstanding great pressure from the usual suspects, stopped the senseless lockdown after the first two weeks and ordered it to be over. He left it up to individual states to mandate lockdowns if they chose to do so. But none of that will be reported.
Their brains “aged”? What, exactly, is this supposed to mean?
The human brain develops from about 2 weeks after conception up to age 25 years. Does the term “aging” mean that brain development was accelerated? Or does it mean something else?
This lack of precise descriptions is the reason I hate most articles written to “explain” scientific topics to non-scientists. They are often simplified to the point of meaninglessness.
I just went on business as usual.
People were always welcome to come by and we’d often go to other’s farms too.
Oh...but don’t blame the masks, full of all those germs and bacteria!
More and more information is coming out about the harm done by the extended school closures and lock downs. Even the NYT ran a scathing article about it earlier this year.
I could understand the lock downs and closures for the first few weeks, before the nature of the virus was better understood. After all, all they had to go on was SARS1, which had a *much* higher fatality rate. But after it became clear that Covid was rarely serious in the young and healthy, it made no sense.
As I recall, the teachers and teachers’ union were at the forefront demanding school closures because they were afraid of catching Covid from the kids. Okay, why not give teachers at risk (those with comorbidities that made Covid especially dangerous for them) paid leave and carry on? Same with other public-facing jobs? It would have been far cheaper and caused far less harm than the blanket lock downs.
Why did we not put measures in place to protect the vulnerable (elderly and those with certain health conditions) and leave the rest of us be? Trader Joe’s had special hours for seniors only during Covid. All businesses could have done likewise instead of closing, for example. Doesn’t that make more sense than the draconian measures we saw in most states?
I do hope we learned something from our mistakes and this madness will never be repeated.
Does that mean they are more mature?
I respectfully disagree. I think it was clear by the time of the China virus that the deep state was at war with Trump and doing everything they could to undermine him. That includes the CDC.
How about ‘teens’ locked up in jail or prison for a while?
Can their brains be studied for ‘aging’ and compared to the Covid lockdown teens?
And if the Covid teens are a problem, have we been making the jailed ‘teens’ a worse problem by locking them up?
The COVID-1984 Scamdemic made it very clear that there were few adults in the room, from those who perpetrated it to those who bathed themselves in victimhood.
I respectfully agree with you.
Nobody knew anything about this virus at the time, and much of what was being put out there by Fouchie was fabricated.
My stepdaughter died of breast cancer around that time and they tried to list Covid as the cause!
People who died in car accidents were listed as covid victims.
Trump didn’t know anymore about it than anybody else. But he did his best to make sure that medical supplies were available in abundance.
Fauchie was the problem, not Trump.
The zombies should be happy. They like aged brains.
Maybe they thought it was just the weed?.
Trump is going to have to take some accountability for subletting his presidency to Fauci. If he would have been on a debate stage during the primaries, he would have been savaged for it.
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