Good point.
But…. You ignore the issue of time.
We’re a year into this pandemic. A year.
12 months.
If he had been struggling as you suggest all along with a fair share of child care, BELIEVE ME, something would have been said far earlier about it than now.
There’s a lot of pieces out there about it and has been since last April about child care and schooling. A LOT A LOT .
He’s just noticed. At least, that’s how his comment landed. It’s a new phenomenon for him.
That’s why it’s tone deaf.