Posted on 05/24/2020 11:37:44 AM PDT by absalom01
The pandemic did this? Even the content alone shows that fear of disease pales in comparison to economic hardship in driving suicide. In addition, there is another huge factor: mandatory social separation is a psychological disaster.
“It’s a natural experiment, in a way,” said Matthew Nock, a psychology professor at Harvard. “There’s not only an increase in anxiety, but the more important piece is social isolation.” He added, “We’ve never had anything like this — and we know social isolation is related to suicide.”
So, yes, this can generate terrifying but predictable results. Again, the problem is material but, more profoundly, it is spiritual. Lockdowns crush dreams, impose a loss of control, separate you from friends, surround you people with police ready to arrest you for doing what only a few days earlier was perfectly normal and legal. It just didn’t seem possible that something like this could happen in America but it did.
At the same time, we are profoundly aware too that many people have been enthusiastic participants in lockdown culture. Given the scant science and medical evidence that they save lives, that they are actually achieving the goal, how can we account for the many people who not only did not enter into a dark place but rather found new purpose through them?
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
I thought we were #alonetogether...
What did it do?
“Found New Purpose thru
LockDowns?”
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Karen’s Blossomed.
Not surprised...not even slightly.
Suicides, drug abuse, alcoholism... some of my friends who were already big drinkers now have the opportunity to freely imbibe all day without those pesky workplace standards to get in the way.
The negative externalities are shrugged off by the “lockdown enthusiasts” who accuse opponents of “trying to kill grandma” or “only caring about the stock market.”
Such a crappy turn of events. Thanks, ChiComs.
Those people are liars and full of crap.
“ The pandemic did this?”. Leftist governments did this, aided and abetted by the media. The “pandemic” didn’t do a thing.
ChiComs,
Biohazard!
I excerpted what I thought was the strongest couple of paragraphs. Worth clicking through to read the piece, but this is basically making the case that even if one credits the “lockdown” with reducing the spread of the ChiCom Bioweapon, the toll in other areas is greater than the impact of the disease.
Tennessee didn’t even lock down until March 30. But...
“By late March, more people had died in just one Tennessee county from suicide than had died in the entire state directly from the virus.”
Article offers no statistics just baseless opinions.
I’m sorry Danny you’re an idiot and you have become a complete embarrassment to this board. Take your terrified ass over to daily Kos.
it’s two months now you havent shut the #### up about this virus even while you’ve been proved completely wrong about how lethal it is.
Be a man for God’s sake.
And don’t go away mad. Just go away
I read that there was a 600% increase in suicide prevention call lines.
A huge increase in suicides.
Well, it’s an opinion piece, so that’s not really unexpected, I’d say.
The author is pointing out, correctly, that the “Lockdown” isn’t free of its own costs in human lives and needless suffering. Before the flubros jump in, that doesn’t mean that this virus isn’t terrible, just that we should be weighing the costs and benefits of our response.
To date, in my opinion, the “Lockdown” has done more damage than other approaches that could have been taken, but that’s water under the bridge at this point. But pretending that the “Lockdown” can go on forever, or until we have a vaccine, or until it’s “contained” is just not realistic.
We need a strategy to get people back to work, and we need it now.
I have yet to see an article that provides actual numbers of suicides.
If we want to look at raw numbers, probably the best maker would be the prevalence of “excess suicides and attempts” vs. past years.
But that’s not really necessary, either, because there’s simply no way to compute how many (if any) lives were saved by the “lockdown”.
It’s all speculation.
And no, this does not mean the virus “isn’t so bad” or “just the flu”.
It’s not, and by sending this around the world, the CCP didn’t leave us any “good choices”, only “bad and maybe less bad” choices. It’s not nice, but that’s where we are.
In any event, we cannot sustain this “Lockdown” much longer. We should be talking about ways to get back to work, while mitigating the impact of the virus on the public health, and preserving our God-given rights, enshrined in our constitution.
-Never in history have the healthy been quarantined.
-There is compelling medical scientific evidence that mask wearing increases the spread of viruses
- this great social experiment demonstrates that entire populations blindly accept propaganda as truth and that governments, with the assistance of media, Google, YouTube et al, can control the masses with little or no pushback to achieve their goal of world domination.
Trump and those who support liberty and justice are the only thing standing in their quest for complete control over every aspect of each person’s life.
There’s no practical way to ever know how many lives were saved by closing almost everything it’s all speculation. There’s no way to know what would hypothetically happen if nothing was done. Because you would also have to define what doing nothing would even entail.
There have been cases of doing so, in a time where we were highly ignorant of germs in general. Entire families got walled in during the Bubonic Plague, just to be sure. If you got walled into your house, well if the plague didn’t kill you, the decomposing corpses would. Then they decided to burn the Jews in massive bonfires because supposedly they had smaller death rates.
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