Since the World Health Organization declared mpox a global health emergency last week, familiar fears of school shutdowns have ricocheted across social media, striking a nerve with many U.S. students who remember all too well the 2020 Covid lockdowns.

“I’M NOT MISSING SENIOR YEAR BC OF MONKEYPOX,” one person wrote in the caption of a TikTok video with nearly 1 million views.

In another, a remix of “Forever Young” plays as the text “2024: ‘did you see they shut down some…