Posted on 12/03/2020 9:03:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
An 11-year-old boy died after he shot himself in his California home during a Zoom class this week, according to a new report.
The pre-teen was attending the virtual class with his microphone and camera turned off when he took his own life just after 11 a.m. Wednesday in Woodbridge, a community in Northern California’s Central Valley, KOVR reported.
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I am glad to see I am not the only one boiling over this.
And they will focus on blaming the F****** gun, not why the kid shot himself.
My friend in san Diego lost a friend who lost his business and a daughter in high school who took her life over these lockdowns. I am so enraged its not funny.
Another covid death.
“And they will focus on blaming the F****** gun...”
...YEP! Good opportunity now to grab guns! “This poor child would be alive today if only...” BS!
I remember many times throughout my school age years where kids committed suicide. At least Two from hanging, several from overdoses.
The question I have is how did this young kid get his hands on a loaded gun? Where were his parents?
The Second Amendment is our right but with that right, we have responsibility. We are responsible for the safety and security of our children and these parents failed their son.
The lockdown is destroying this country.
Quarantines are for sick/vulnerable people.
Quarantining people who are not sick/vulnerable is a crime against humanity and the perpetrators should be disposed of with extreme prejudice.
A guy at work had a 14 yo nephew that hung himself a few months ago. He wasn’t dealing with the democrat lockdowns in Oregon very well. The boy’s father was no more than 20 feet away in another room. Dad is crushed and on meds now.
Bkmk
I am so sorry to hear that. Prayers for the families.
That is 100% true.
The part that enrages me is that the people pushing this do not even think the psychological effects of removing people from the interaction and company of their fellow humans has any effect at all on the well being of people.
Doesn’t even enter into their calculations...
Suicide is a horrible thing. Finding someone that has hanged themselves is particularly frightening. I’m a chicken. Sometimes I’m tired of living but too scared to die.
“The pre-teen was attending the virtual class with his microphone and camera turned off”
had been attending?
NY post is getting worse than GP with click-bait!
We know a fourteen year old girl that died to kill herself with pills about a month ago. She said that she liked the cyber school, though. The two kids live with the paternal grandmother. The parents were druggies and the dad walked in front of truck, when he was too high to know what he was doing and the mother dropped the kids off at the grandmother’s took off.
The grandfather was much older, a WWII veteran and former POW. He died about seven or eight years ago. The town named a street after the grandfather.
How horrible. Just imagine being another student on that Zoom class or his sister.
Sorry for the boy, he’s very young, it’s tragic. But maybe he would have been a school shooter. Certainly wanted to traumatize as many children as he could.
I may sound heartless, but I feel bad for the other children.
At least the criminals have lived long enough to have developed coping mechanisms, and the ability to understand why they are isolated.
A young child? Not so much. They sit alone wondering why they are being punished by the whole world. The internalized sense of free floating guilt (for nothing!) and diminished sense of self-worth will haunt many for the rest of their lives.
We flattened the curve, but the left wasn't satisfied.
We've flattened our children, and they still aren't satisfied.
Or as Livius adds:
But all the “public service” ad pitches for masks, isolation, etc. are that if somebody else gets “the virus,” it’s your fault. Children particularly are made to feel like radioactive waste, and to regard everybody else - especially all other children - as equal threats. They will indeed have a sense of diminished self-worth all of their lives. Especially for breaking out and doing normal kid things like laughing, jumping around - in other words, innocent fun and human expression. That won’t permitted in our future Marxist paradise.
That can't be good...
We do not know from the Post article or the Sacramento Bee article it links the degree to which the lockdowns contributed to the boy’s suicide.
But I will bet you a million bucks that if it turns out the boy was fine this time last year and someone, his sister perhaps, can attest to what conversations he had with her about how the lockdowns were affecting him, no one will ever hear about it.
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