Depriving young boys of what they love, trapping them inside, starving them of social contact?

We don't need academic studies to outline the horrendous effect that lockdown had on millions of children.

This was obvious then and many of us said exactly so at the time.

Professor Karol Sikora One of my sons turned 13 in January 2020, and then 2 months later, there was lockdown. I won't go into detail, but it did affect him badly. Those important years were lost, basically. It wasn't hard to see at the time that it was so wrong and was going to hurt children terribly.