Posted on 02/27/2021 2:58:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN - Pollina Dinner returned to school in Berlin for the first time this week after two months of lockdown. The 9-year-old third-grader was thrilled to see her classmates and teachers again but frets about the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on her life.
“I’m not afraid of the coronavirus, I’m afraid that everything will continue like this — that my school will close again, I won’t be able to see my friends, and that I can’t go to the movies with my family,” the girl said, fingering her blue medical mask and sighing deeply. “And wearing this mask is even worse than all the shops being closed.”
Psychiatrists, psychologists and pediatricians in Germany have voiced growing alarm that school closings, social restrictions and other precautions are magnifying the fear, disruption and stress of the pandemic among Germany’s 13.7 million children and teenagers, raising the prospect of a future mental health crisis.
“We don’t have any long-term studies yet, but there’s lots of anecdotal evidence of a crisis-driven rise in hospitalizations and overflowing psychologists’ practices,” Julia Asbrand, a professor of child and youth psychology at Berlin’s Humboldt University, told The Associated Press.
A recent survey by the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf found that about one child in three is suffering from pandemic-related anxiety or depression or is exhibiting psychosomatic symptoms like headaches or stomach aches. Children from poorer and immigrant families are disproportionally affected, according to the survey.
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Just a humble opinion, but if they’d done the same survey back in 2019 (before Corona)....they probably would have near the same numbers.
I was listening to a guy (David Pallides) that does youtubes on weird missing-persons cases out in the woods (Missing 411). His latest was talking about the recent death of his son - suicide. He believes it was partly due to the isolation of Covid.
He asked the doctor in Los Angeles about it. She agreed. She told him L.A. in the last 9 months has as many suicides in the last 30 years combined. (I THINK I heard that correctly I listened to it twice.) It may have been 3 years - but even still.
Ich bin Pollina Dinner.
I see what you did there!
OMG, do NOT MISS this hysterical true-life audio/video from Ireland!
Just a minute and a half, you will watch/listen to it over and over, cheering!
https://video.parler.com/47/a7/47a774c1cfed.mp4
See 6.
If every day just one person did this at each checkpoint, the officers manning them would lose heart.
What we need is a few solid consistent legal guideline - to push the cops and karen’s brigade back to where they came from, while avoiding real legal jeopardy.
——Children from poorer and immigrant families are disproportionally affected——
EU Media boilerplate equivalent of: “Women and Minorities Hardest Hit…”
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