A HUDDLE OF 16- and 17-year-olds outside Luton Sixth Form College, in southern England, are describing how the pandemic has affected their lives. It is a long and bitter tale. Their education has suffered from repeated disruption; they have become nervous and listless; they have been unable to get drunk together. One girl says, sadly, that she and her friends became so used to meeting online during lockdowns that they have almost forgotten how to relate in person: 'Even when we're together, it's as though we're not there.

https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/02/05/a-cohort-of-british-children-has-been-changed-by-covid-19-probably-for-good

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