There’s an adage that goes, “If you want to boil a live frog, don’t turn up the heat too quickly, or the frog will jump out of the pot.” Aside from why you would want to boil a frog, the point is that we may not notice destructive changes when they affect us slowly until after the damage is done. If that is true, the lockdowns and shut-ins of the past two years may have boiled our collective well-being past the point of shoe leather.
Beginning in 2022, The Epoch Times reported widely on the devastating effects of the COVID-19 lockdowns. From increases in obesity and depression to delayed learning and cognitive development in children, the evidence (pdf) is overwhelming that the COVID-19 lockdowns caused significantly more harm than good….