Because high levels of stress have also been linked to similar cortical thinning effects, and because the changes were observed during between 2021 and 2022, the researchers concluded that lockdowns were the likely culprit. In other words, this time, correlation proves causation. That sure is a flexible doctrine. The researchers did not consider any possible effect of mRNA vaccines on teenaged brains, even though the jabs were just as temporally correlated with the cortical thinning as were lockdowns. But at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Lockdowns, even if they did cause this troubling development, were just as mandated and government-caused interventions as the vaccines. In other words, either way, the government did this to us. For our own good. No one can predict the long-term harms from this, or even whether the cortical thinning has stopped now that lockdowns are over. The researchers called for ongoing “monitoring,” suggesting they are wondering whether this temporary or transient, or could be…