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?
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China and the American left could not have dreamed of a better ploy to destroy the country and maybe achieve the prize of removing President trump. At the very least,America is as knocked down as any time in its history.
I stand corrected. With the benefit of hindsight, it makes no sense to quarantine the healthy. The key question is, “at what cost?” If the economy collapses and a second Great Depression ensues it will lead to events that make a few covid deaths of the elderly and those that had co-morbidities seem trivial. The average person during the Great Depression was made up if more grit, determination and more skilled in self preservation. The current populace is made up of weak-willed, uber-dependant; pansies that will fold up like chairs on the deck of the Titanic when real adversities strikes.
Blood will be in the streets to be sure.
An important point to keep in mind. Never done before, and no way to know if it's effective. It's purely anecdotal, and we're told, in other contexts, that anecdotal evidence is no evidence of anything at all.
-There is compelling medical scientific evidence that mask wearing increases the spread of viruses
That's where we differ. The emprical evidence on the ground in Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, combined with some recent, and solid-looking lab research, shows that masks radically reduce transmission of the CCP Virus. But that's ok: it appears that if only 80% of a given population wears masks, it's still effective. Which is great: we can open the economy back up!
- this great social experiment demonstrates that entire populations blindly accept/i>
This is by far worse than the spread of the virus. Huge numbers of people are terrified. The powers that be have certainly noticed this, and it does not bode well for the future. That'll be the challenge: how to best resist the inevitable over reach that will be applied using the knowledge gained during this Lockdown?
This has revealed an astonishing divide in our country. My business is effectively shut down in two locations — San Francisco and Los Angeles, due to local regulations but also, employee fear.
The generational divide is strong. The Boomers are all sick of it, and are sneaking back to their workstations, which has its own set of liabilities. The Gen z and millenials? Terrified. Want to “work from home” forever. If we keep this up for one more month, we’ll probably go under, so they’ll be “working from home” for someone else.
I stand corrected. With the benefit of hindsight, it makes no sense to quarantine the healthy. The key question is, “at what cost?” If the economy collapses and a second Great Depression ensues it will lead to events that make a few covid deaths of the elderly and those that had co-morbidities seem trivial. The average person during the Great Depression was made up if more grit, determination and more skilled in self preservation. The current populace is made up of weak-willed, uber-dependant; pansies that will fold up like chairs on the deck of the Titanic when real adversities strikes.
Blood will be in the streets to be sure.
We have rabid Fearpers that say such deaths are immaterial, as keeping someone inside their home ten states away reduces the chance the Fearper will get COVID while isolated in their own home.
After all, they have some very sensitive immune systems and the world should bend to every whim of a Fearper.
This might be the information you need:
Suicide concerns mount as COVID-19 affects mental health
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/suicide-concerns-mount-as-covid-19-affects-mental-health
It appears the county was Knox county.
Totally insane. Keep liquor store open as essential but forbid AA meetings as nonessential.
I doubt few will see that there are lessons to be learned. Such is the blindness of fools that they glory in their own blindness.
Don't feed the trolls.
Danny's strategy is simple: Everyone MUST wear a mask FOREVER.
Danny’s gotten a bit far out over his skis a few times, but has always approached issues, including this with what I believe to be a good faith expression of his honest views.
He supported the lockdown early on, and has proven to have been wrong, but, heck, a lot of people were. Including the president, though I think it’s not clear that he feels that he was bamboozled by Fauci and Brix and the inept projections from Imperial College in London. Hindsight is 20/20, always is. But he has clearly recognized the seriousness of the Chinese virus and has provided a valuable counter perspective throughout this entire farrago.
Also this. The invective that the more unhinged flubros have directed at him is just embarrassing at this point.
The *Deaths of Despair* will ultimately far outnumber the WuFlu deaths.
Then throw in the deaths caused by people not getting the *non-urgent* procedures and treatments that they needed. Cancer and heart disease victims have died. Kidney patients have missed dialysis. Transplants were effin canceled.
People didn’t go to the doctor or the ER when they should have, they were too terrorized by Fake Newsers and Dr Fraudci l
But, as long as libs got to preen and virtue signal, blue tyrants stripped away Constitutional rights with nary a whimper.
Tons of paranoid people. I am honestly shocked that my own mother isn’t among them, coming all the way from Delaware in June to visit me up in the Philadelphia area.
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