But for people bummed about having nothing but Netflix and the internet to keep them entertained, I have this to say: ANNE FRANK
Posted on 04/25/2020 9:57:35 PM PDT by rintintin
A female classmate of Doherty High School senior Hunter Portaleos took her life the first week of April.
“I had talked to her a few days before it happened, and she seemed fine,” Portaleos said. “I didn’t see any warning signs. A lot of her friends didn’t, either.”
Two El Paso County teens have died by suicide since mid-March, when society began to shut down.
“A lot of youth are dealing with anxiety and being socially isolated at home,” 18-year-old Portaleos said.
“Along with what’s triggering the anxiety and bad mental health is the fact of not knowing what’s going to happen in the next few weeks or so,” he said. “And a lot of seniors are losing their traditional end-of-year experiences.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gazette.com ...
Coronavirus will go down as one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on the people of the earth!
Some teens have sucky home lives. Being shut in at home is the last place they should be.
The funny thing is that after this shutdown is lifted, some of them will step outside for a few minutes...then head back inside to their X-Boxes and PS4’s. HaHa.
So now COVID causes suicide too?
“So now COVID causes suicide too?”
Guess you didn’t read the article. It’s quarantine that causes suicides.
Yeah, but will COVID suicide be on the death cert?
Only halfway kidding.
deaths by suicide are a result of the shutdown,more will die from this than the virus
Suicides are already the #10 leading cause of death in the U.S., almost 48,000. . Every 1% increase in unemployment results in thousands more committing suicide. ( medical journal Lancet). I can tell you that suicide intervention centers are getting more calls in 72 hours than we usually see in 3 months. For a concise analysis see the following excerpt below that estimates an increase from suicide and drugs of 70,000 this is from https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/13/shutdown_could_kill_more_americans_than_covid-19_142934.html
No model or guesswork is required to foresee the deadly impact. Job losses cause extreme suffering. Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities deaths of despair.
Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment. Health economist Michael French from the University of Miami and a co-author found a “significant association between job loss” and binge drinking and alcoholism.
The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing and drinking. Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63% higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in Social Science & Medicine.
I’m glad to hear more about impacts of the quarantines.
There are trade-offs to be made in deciding to shut down society the way we have.
Suicides and mental health difficulties are definitely severe impacts of this quarantine. It sure seems to me like while we may be saving lives from the virus, our actions are causing other problems.
Not to mention the other major problem that still is in the background, which is the problems that will arise if we see another Great Depression.
But for people bummed about having nothing but Netflix and the internet to keep them entertained, I have this to say: ANNE FRANK
When you’re a teenager, one week of lousy to bad experiences can feel like five long years. You wonder if it will ever stop being so lousy? That’s where having a hobby, a sport or the right kind of friends/ family can really help you.
You need to redirect yourself away from the negativity. With any luck, you soon learn to tolerate little ‘bumps in the road’, little disappointments.
If it were up to Dr. Fauci and Rahm Emmanuel’s brother, we would stay lockdown for the next year to year-and-a-half as we search for a vaccine.
I think we all know that is impractical.
One aspect of things which the liberals do not want to talk about, is that wall every death is tragic, the odds of people dying from this virus are actually relatively small.
The Liberals also don’t want to talk about the fact that people die of many many causes every single day and we do not lockdown the country to try to prevent those causes of death.
It really frustrates me that this has even become political at all. But the battle lines in politics seem to be drawn. The Liberals are happy to have the country shut down indefinitely because they think it will hurt Trump politically. Conservatives in my opinion have the realistic idea that we should reopen the country while still being aware of the risks that we all face. Conservatives are in favor of taking proper precautions while we try to get our lives and the economy back to normal. The Liberals oppose such Common Sense ideas because they would rather keep us locked up in hopes of hurting Trump politically.
To stop the return of manufacturing of products back to the US that went to China. China backers here who’s family members are making millions from China through their political connections will be hit hard are also claiming that Trump’s alleged stock ownership in a quinine pills maker claim its a controlling interest in a product to be totally ineffective and when used requires a severe restriction of movement when near a possible carrier known as a shutdown because of its rapid transmission .
“Coronavirus will go down as one of the greatest scams ever perpetrated on the people of the earth!”
Yup. I noticed they got Fauci SS protection right at the start.
(Forest Gump voice)
“And that’s all I got to say about that.”
They way things ahve been hyped up, good luck with that.
it can be a miserable age with more than enough miserable parents and if you think having social media helps it doesnt.
At least you could leave school in the old days to stop being bullied or tortured.
and no, it’s not realistic to “just shut it off”
It’s a part of the world...technology.
One doesn’t have to be stuck in an attic during the nazi occupation to have hard times isolated in a home...with God knows that kind of dynamics going on
The stress on that %age of marriages already dysfxnal leads to domestic abuse and manslaughter.
Death by Fauci???
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