Dear Luna,
Nowhere did he mention that yeshivos should be opened for those like him, or that Eretz Yisrael should open up sooner. He was just calling attention to a very significant problem. Yeshiva boys are only trained to learn and grow in the yeshiva setting. Take a Bachur who just completed one stage, and is about to start another in the same setting. And then pull away the whole setting from. It is ready….. set….. grow…. Where? What does he do now? Chavrusa? From which Yeshiva? What masechta is he learning? Is he continuing to prepare to drei for Kadshim? Or is it full stop turn around back to Bava Kama? Who does he turn to in middle of a shverer toisfos? Who will tell him where to find that Ketzos everyone is debating? How does he even know that there is Ketzos on the topic?
I have been calling very loud about how bad this pandemic has been and still is for all ages of our community. But this may be the roughest. A Bachur who put together one solid week after another after another, that added up to a good zman. Three zmanim a year for a number of years. During that time, his goal was to build himself to go to the next step and get up to par of some yeshiva or other yeshiva. Not going to yeshiva is not that big of a deal. But sitting there day after day, not sure what to learn, unable to uncover source material, or to hear feedback on what little novelties he has uncovered, is a slow painful horror tribunal for a budding talmid chacham.