Amanda Hu

Amanda Hu

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Kids maybe do get anxious when they have brain fog they can’t articulate and no sense of smell, 10 others have Dickensian coughs, 3 are puking in the corner, and their substitute teacher dropped dead yesterday after replacing the one who got long Covid and disappeared

brownecfm

I'm not even going to bother dissecting this, because once again it's classic manufacturing of consent. I will correct the title of the piece though. It should be: 'Rise in school absences *during* Covid driven by *Covid*' It's getting tedious now. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/23/rise-in-school-absences-since-covid-driven-by-anxiety-and-lack-of-support-say-english-councils