The mainstream now admits that kids growing up during COVID restrictions are going to have under-developed bacterial populations which will have bad health effects: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/12/pandemic-hygiene-kids-microbiome/672362/

>These microbe-human dialogues begin in infancy, and the first three or so years of life are absolutely pivotal: Bacteria must colonize babies, then the two parties need to get into physiological sync. Major disruptions during this time “can throw the system out of whack,” says Katherine Amato, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University, and raise a kid’s risk of developing allergies, asthma, obesity, and other chronic conditions later in life.

>But for the circa-COVID kids, the specter of 2026 and Finlay’s anticipated chronic-illness “bump” still looms—and it’ll be a good while yet before researchers have clarity on just how much of a difference those months of relative microbial emptiness truly made.

They are trying to downplay it later, though. It seems the whole concept of COVID restrictions was a disaster overall.