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Anyone who tries to tell you that the COVID-19 pandemic, and its associated social, political, and economic panics, are good things is an idiot, or trying to sell you some kind of snake oil, or both. Society-wide disasters are always net negatives, or we wouldn't think of them as disasters in the first place. Silver linings are never as shiny as the clouds they run through are large.

That doesn't mean silver linings don't exist, though. They do, and some of them are significant.

One major silver lining in the United States is that the nation's patchwork of government-operated daycare center...