I'm not a child, but my anxiety levels during the actual pandemic were at my lowest ever (working from home, no annoying socializing, I'm kind of a shut-in). Now, though, they're definitely higher than before, if only because I experienced how I could be in an ideal way before it was taken away.

Well we've done nothing to prepare for the next pandemic, we've had proof that in crisis people will fight each other before they'll pull together to help, our social systems continue to be dismantled for profit, everyone except the all-powerful ultra-rich is struggling to afford to live, owning a home is an unattainable dream, education is more expensive and than ever and doesn't guarantee any employment result, the world is creeping closer to war, fascists are on the march everywhere, minorities are being blamed and threatened for the sins of the rich, and the planet is being destroyed at a rate that makes this generation's prospects look like mostly starvation and war. Maybe young people aren't too stupid to notice some of this?