The pandemic erased two decades of progress in math and reading

We need to stop blaming the pandemic for things that were caused by lockdowns. Young healthy people were forced to put their lives on hold for 2 years so that some 86 year olds would make it to 87.

Don't they mean "closing schools" erased two decades...

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