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Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by TameAntelope on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:37PM (#27043733)
I think that's an extremely interesting take -- that with the advent of the Internet, we've created a vehicle for mental illness to metastasize, and the only real solution is to treat mental illness like we treat malaria or even COVID, and upgrade our global healthcare systems to handle the influx of this "new" disease variant.

The analogy breaks down when you start to try and think of what our "vaccine" might be, though perhaps education can be a rough proxy. It's also possible there's nothing we can do, and we've reached a spread that is incurable...

Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by kaba0 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @05:58AM (#27048061)
Except that it doesn’t spread that way? And that it had always been around. We have just started paying attention to it.
Re:On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness by CRConrad on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @02:05PM (#27053431)
Maybe we notice it more because we're paying more attention to it... Or maybe because there actually is more of it, since it now can be transmitted more efficiently -- has become "contagious" in a way it wasn't before. Hard to tell which it is.