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Strikes, fear: an update from Kharkiv

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Play in the Age of Covid

Children were spotted by british researchers playing sot of by themselves in ways that seemed to act out their anxieties about covids. One girl was filmed swabbing the nose of her toy horse, acon a plastic toy horse, she whissered of testing her horse for covid. All of this suggested that children were using play to try to control their old but also, kids spent a lot more time on line during all that time than they would have beforehand. That is something that many parents had worried about a great deal before covet struck.

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