And it doesn’t bode well at all for our prospects for handling all the other, bigger crises that are heading down the pipe toward us at the moment. Not at all.

Not saying anything new, maybe. But I wanted it on record: people were saying this in 2020. (And yes, it’s not just kids at risk, but kids are vulnerable and dependent on us to make sensible decisions despite our stress and exhaustion and all that. Even in places where this is being handled best, I’m not really seeing much wisdom on an institutional level.)