>Even when school is closed, nobody has been stopping children from seeing their peers in person outside of school.
Why do people always treat friction as something that is irrelevant?
Shutdowns and kids being unable to hang out when they choose to creates a situation where they just lose touch with one another. You can't just deliberately flip a switch to turn it all back on. Social connections don't work like that. Social connections involve a whole series of spontaneous events. If those events don't happen, then social connections fall away. Adults have a hard time making friends, because they have a lot fewer opportunities for those spontaneous events that create friendships.
Rolling the dice less often will give you fewer successes. Some amount of those successes is required for upkeep of a friendship.
Why do people always treat friction as something that is irrelevant?
Shutdowns and kids being unable to hang out when they choose to creates a situation where they just lose touch with one another. You can't just deliberately flip a switch to turn it all back on. Social connections don't work like that. Social connections involve a whole series of spontaneous events. If those events don't happen, then social connections fall away. Adults have a hard time making friends, because they have a lot fewer opportunities for those spontaneous events that create friendships.
Rolling the dice less often will give you fewer successes. Some amount of those successes is required for upkeep of a friendship.