COVID lockdowns kept young people isolated for two years, disrupting normal social development and leaving them confused about basic interactions like handshakes and fist-bumps. The speaker argues this created a social skills deficit that needs urgent attention.
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But the perfect storm of this is, and then once we have that neuroscience, let's lock 'em up for 2 years in a pandemic from all social interaction except for your family, which of course all families are functional, not dysfunctional. So you put 'em in this box and it's like, wow, what's going on with this, right? And so I think there's something here of, There's a perfect storm of the next generation coming up of this need for connection, feeling isolated, not even having the social skills of walking up to somebody and they don't know if they shake my hand, fist bump me, elbow bump me. And there's all this confusion about like, I don't know if I have the social contact. So, there's a lot of confusion right now. And it's like, oh, how do we break through that?