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Problem with these survey is you don't really appreciate the problems you DONT have. We are fickle, easy to forget. One day stuck in traffic or in a crowded bus/metro is enough to make you count your blessings. Speaking about WFH.
What a stupid claim. Based on useless self reported data. Also their “data” is two years old: > More than 17,000 students took part in the June/July 2020 survey, during the tail end of the first national lockdown Think the young people might report feeling different now?
During lockdown, my wife and I left Manhattan to stay with my parents in the suburbs temporarily, and so did my sister. We thought it was going to be a couple weeks, and it turned into 3 months. I really enjoyed having the whole family together. We ate dinner together every night, cooked for each other, went on walks. Of course we got in each others way sometimes. But overall I do miss that time, and wish it was poss…
So 1 in 3 felt happier, 1 in 3 felt more depressed, and the remaining 1 in 3 felt no major change. Sounds pretty much like a normal (gaussian) distribution, or basically a non-story. Guessing if they measured satisfaction on a scale, the majority were clustered near the "no major change" camp, as with any gaussian curve. As we already know, it turns out humans can adapt to things. By phrasing the headline result as "…
lockdown made me more depressed than ever. I had a breakup right before the lockdown and ended up overdosing on MDMA right at the start of it in april 2020. Overall haven't been able to recover emotionally or physically but I did get a better job that pays better than any job i've ever had. Eventually moved back in with my parents because it seemed pointless to live in a tiny new york appartment all alone and pay hig…
I don’t believe this headline for a second
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I thought it was a well recognized fact that humans adapt--I remember this even from my old high school psych class. There's been a thousand studies about this (becoming a refugee, poverty vs. being rich, etc etc). For most people, the only thing that has the power to permanently change your mental state is the death of someone very close to you (a spouse, child, etc) or forced exile from an identity forming social t…
It's not a commonly held belief. Why would anyone want to be rich or afraid of being poor of a refuge if you could adapt to anything?
lockdown made me more depressed than ever. I had a breakup right before the lockdown and ended up overdosing on MDMA right at the start of it in april 2020. Overall haven't been able to recover emotionally or physically but I did get a better job that pays better than any job i've ever had. Eventually moved back in with my parents because it seemed pointless to live in a tiny new york appartment all alone and pay hig…
Get out of your parent's house. It is a daily reminder that you're not facing life as an adult. You don't have to go to an expensive city. If you are working remotely you can live anywhere and there are plenty of nice towns where housing is not insanely expensive. Join a gym or a hiking club or something to get some physical activity and maybe meet some new friends.
This is complete bullshit. The US is a major outlier with the societal pressure to move out for no reason. It makes for poor family connections, wasted money, and wasted resources in general.
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When data was reviewed, the effect in suicides among school age children was that it was significantly lower despite anti-lockdown spokespeople claiming it was higher. The shocking thing was that thisj was not even close in the data.
Do you have a source regarding the suicide rate you can share? Everything I'm finding suggests they went up (the CDC "morbidity and mortality weekly report" indicated a 22% spike in 2020 relative to 2019).
The CDC data was reviewed by him on this thread. This is perhaps the simplest summary:
https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1470785676316663820?...
Edit: There is actually an interesting presentation of data on this and other school mental health impacts on a even more macro basis in the Urgency of Equity website data packet which tries to provide a scientifically backed set of recommendations for schools going forward on Covid. It is biased to taking more specific actions than the anti-vax/anti-mask crowd, and even the current Covid policies of many governments.