In addition to the absolutely totally shocking development that kids got a lot fatter after we closed schools and locked them at home for the past year and a half, we're now being told that kids are teed up to get really sick this winter because their immune systems have had no exercise for the last 18 months:

Children might be more susceptible to common illnesses this winter because of an "immunity debt" built up during lockdown, government scientists say.

A senior adviser said the re-emergence of respiratory diseases suppressed during the last lockdown could "put a spanner in the works".

Dr Rob Orford said there is a "great deal of uncertainty" about what could happen next in the pandemic...

Dr Orford, the Welsh government's chief scientific adviser for health, spoke at a meeting of the Senedd's health committee.

He told the committee: "We may have stacked up some immunity debt in the system where children have not been mixing with friends, and so they may be more susceptible to some of the illnesses we traditionally see."

Pretty shocking, I know! It's not like we had nearly a century of compelling data to warn us against the practice of completely isolating children and essentially freezing their immune systems in place.

Ah well! If it gets too bad we can always lock down again!