Absolutely outstanding and rage-inducing report, particularly when so much that has been written here was entirely predictable by so many from the outset.
Props to the openly and unapologetically left-wing Propublica for this sober and responsible piece of journalism.
I did not read every word of that article as it was very long and depressing. Did the reporter just happen to follow the story of the one young man who ended up committing suicide or did the young men commit suicide and then the reporter went back to learn how he had been doing during the pandemic? That was a personal tragedy for his family and friends but we have suffered and are still suffering a national tragedy/outrage.
I certainly did not expect what I read.
I saw one very obvious dig at the beginning, but I don’t recall much after that.
It was as if they decided to use it as a political football just once more...and then told the truth because even they couldn’t look away from it.