Covid was/is the single biggest, most transformative, impactful event of the past 100 years, experienced by every single person on the planet. And people are seriously saying don’t write about it??!!
Furthermore, as I understand it, lockdowns in China were an entirely different beast to lockdowns in California – or anywhere else in the world, for that matter.
Kids write essays about how curly hair affected them, and get into top schools. It’s not the curly hair, and it’s not covid. It’s what the kid has to say. And that, none of us can know. The essay could fall flat on its face, or be brilliant.
Look, none of us knows if Admissions Offices are sick of reading about covid, or really want to know how kids navigated it. it certainly is not the clear 3rd rail that writing about one’s mental health struggles is.
Since we don’t know so much, I prefer not to tell kids how bad their topic is, especially at this late date.