I can’t help but assume all the people who’re in a panic about how kids will lose the ability to socialize and who equate lockdowns with “child abuse” just really, really don’t want to be around their kids more often than usual for a while. Like, they must *really* hate it. I mean, I get that it’s exhausting: my wife and I are with our son full-time, both worked for part of the pandemic, and I’m still working. It’s exhausting.

But it’s not “child abuse.” He’d stressed by it, but less stressed than daycare made him. He’s happy.