COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]
Thanks for the breakdown - so maybe this is something or maybe not
I'd assume that there would be more of difference of how it was handled between introvert vs extrovert more than by gender
Yeah, I did think it was a little glib about the reasoning for the differences ("Kuhl believes the difference reflects girls’ greater dependence on social groups and interactions. “Girls chat endlessly and share their emotions,” she said.").
That said, I wouldn't just dismiss the psychological impact of lockdowns, as distinct from the psychological impacts of the pandemic in general, as a factor. And identifying the psychological impacts of lockdowns, including who might be more susceptible to them, in order that they can be potentially compensated for if needed for in the future would be a good thing to do. But it seems like that would be very hard to establish, as those factors are naturally hard to separate from everything else going on, and they don't, as far as I can see, appear to have built a strong case for it.
And I think to make that assertion they really should have to make a strong case for it, because there's also a risk here. There's been this very strong trend right from the start, to attribute, often without evidence, all kinds of harms to lockdowns (frequently while simultaneously dismissing the harms of the, you know, actual deadly pandemic). And this just doesn't seem to have stopped. For another example, there was
this article, also in the Guardian, earlier this year that attributed 'children arriving at school who are still wearing nappies, whose communication abilities are limited, or who are still unable to use a knife and fork,' to children 'missing crucial experiences' 'during successive lockdowns'. The glaring flaw in that is the articles going back years complaining about the exact same thing (e.g.
from Sky News in 2014; there's other examples going back decades).
The risk here is that this narrative seems to be established that attributes anything and, apparently, everything to 'lockdowns', and in the event of another pandemic where we might again need to use lockdowns in an initial period before vaccines are available, this narrative will delay or even stop the necessary measures being taken, which could cost lives. Potentially a lot of lives.
When there's already a trend of anti-health measures - opposition to lockdowns, to masks, to vaccination - feeding into it unnecessarily seems unwise.