TEENAGERS have apparently ‘bounced back’ from Covid with better exam results. But is it perhaps time for them – and plenty of older people – to get over a pandemic that ended in early 2021?

‘I completely forgot how to interact with people’

Well, spending 20 years in total social isolation would affect anyone’s personality. What? Covid wasn’t like that? You actually had to observe on-off lockdowns for two years, with regular contact with your family, access to a phone and frequent Zoom calls? Sorry, it’s easy to confuse your account of Covid with a North Korean prison.

‘Covid made me get a D in psychology’

Yes, and your other GCSEs aren’t great either, thanks to 2020. But being out of a structured learning environment is obviously bad for teenagers. It’s just a shame that in four and a

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