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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by croes on Sunday March 21, 2021 @03:46PM (#26533292)
Vs traumatized from death of relatives, death from overloaded hospitals, food shortages because death of working family members. And why are kids grow up without seeing facial expressions? They are not isolated but spend more time with their parents, what's wrong with the world if this leads to mental health problems. Year after year it was told parents need to spend more time with their children to built up their confidence and now this? Could it ve it's not the lockdown, that causes the mental health problems but the pandemic?
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by 1experience on Sunday March 21, 2021 @04:09PM (#26533505)
Please tell me where are all these deaths in Sweden, Belarus, Brazil, Florida...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...

So you're telling me that in places like Brazil more people are being traumatized by deaths in overloaded hospitals compared to Westerners (who are less traumatized) thanks to a year of isolation? uhmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q

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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by croes on Sunday March 21, 2021 @04:27PM (#26533669)
Ask yourself, what's the bigger trauma for you. Your partner dies of COVID-19, you can't see your parents for a year.
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by soupbowl on Sunday March 21, 2021 @04:35PM (#26533736)
COVID is not a death sentence for the majority of people that get it.
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by croes on Sunday March 21, 2021 @05:13PM (#26534132)
Neither is the lockdown
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by throwaway53453 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @11:53PM (#26536681)
Lockdowns cause suffering even if they're not a death sentence.
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by 1experience on Sunday March 21, 2021 @05:05PM (#26534041)
That's a non question, as if you could have prevented the majority of people from dying of it, lockdowns were about "flattening the curve" they weren't even saving the majority of lives (maybe some) at an incommensurable social cost.
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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by logicchains on Sunday March 21, 2021 @11:52PM (#26536678)
>traumatized from death of relatives

The average age of covid deaths was over 80. I hate to break it to you, but people over 80 don't exactly have a long time to left live. Arguably somebody who is traumatised (as opposed to just saddened) by an elderly relative dying isn't very emotionally adjusted, as dying of old age is inevitable.

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Re:As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered... by ryandrake on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:58AM (#26537616)
What’s more traumatizing is the knowledge that so many people are willing to just throw the elderly under the bus because hey, they are going to die soon anyway. “I gotta eat my Olive Garden, so someone’s granny needs to die 10 years too soon from a preventable illness.”
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