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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by aemreunal on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:55PM (#29860290)
It's very true that things like depression, poverty, closing businesses, hunger, children's development being negatively affected, etc. are also externalities of COVID measures. Very true. Probably also true that we're not putting enough thought into them. Hence why I tries to be very careful to not say "everything we did is right". They're probably not. Hindsight is 20/20.

> it's not a stretch to say that the damage done by the policies is often worse than the disease.

I wouldn't be willing to quantify it as "often", but I would definitely agree that "sometimes" it can be worse.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by colordrops on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:00AM (#29860955)
Often enough that two of my family members died due to untreated non-covid ilness (kidney failure and diabetes), an uncle attempted suicide, and a cousin spiraled into depression and was hospitalized. I know dozens who have caught covid, and none were hospitalized. I doubt that I'm that much of an anomaly.
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