The common refrain during this pandemic has been “The kids are resilient! They will adapt, we have time to recover later!” The kids are not resilient in the face of endless lockdowns, virtual school, and the stripping of friends and family and social interactions away from them. The numbers on youth suicide are reaching shocking levels. How can dead kids be “resilient,” I ask you? In the course of world history, child sacrifice has been part of some of the most barbaric practices. We are seeing the 21st century version of child sacrifice. The mental health and physical well-being of our kids is currently being sacrificed to satisfy the fears and demands of adults. Those who have no power, authority, agency, or voice are being ignored, run over, mocked, and left out by those who are making the rules right now. The teachers’ unions are full-out resisting going back, even as Joe Biden makes tepid noise about sending kids back to school sometime by the end of the school year. Other governors, who have been in thrall to the teachers’ unions, are experiencing some kind of unknown change of heart. The data has existed for months that despite the labeling of children as snotty little germ factories, schools are not super-spreader locations, especially not elementary schools. The science has not changed, so what has?