Per Alex Berenson on Twitter, a man who tutors wealthy kids offers a terrifying take on what he's seeing: "Many pre-teens are simply agoraphobics. They don't like the outside world. It's scary; they've lost interest.... They've lost the ability to self-regulate.... Middle schoolers aren't doing their homework.... Teachers don't know how to calibrate work levels, they ratchet between assigning too much and too little. Public school teachers are particularly terrible, they just open up cans of boring and dump it onto these kids' plates. Unstructured time is auto-converted to screen time. There are no barriers; they don't have the native reading skills to invest their time in self education, they don't even consider it. Aside from screens, the older kids self-medicate with weed. Vaping is second nature. Just a way of coping. You can't blame them. The biggest COVID story, longterm, in my opinion: an entire generation is well on its way to being emotionally stunted, terrified of physical contact and vulnerability, contemptuous of enlightenment ideals, and totally enslaved by technology addiction. If there is one salient detail, it is this: there's not a SINGLE kid I know who is more likely to read a book than take psych meds or vape."