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Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says

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Re: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says

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Post by iamthemonster »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #365
astrange wrote: post #309

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And every Australian I know was happy about it too. Australia is very similar to the US, but one difference is that they're less oppositional. Helps that it actually seemed to work though I'm surprised there hasn't been more objection to the lack of tourism. Of course, it's ineffective against omicron which is just too infectious to be stopped, and they aren't doing it now.

Australia has successfully navigated to my no-go list by their insanity. The lack of habeous corpus is very alarming as a tourist. The lack of rule of law it terribly frightening when that is all you can rely on if shit goes sideways on a trip. Australia has shown they are the same level as the Middle East, e.g. Iran and Afghanistan.

Yeah it is basically the same as Afghanistan over here mate, you wouldn't like it.

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

chernevik wrote: post #415

The US policy response has been far more costly and destructive than it needed to be. The pandemic response completely ignored the costs of shutdowns. There has been little or no consideration of their impact on physical health, mental health, education, business, employment, worship. It has been as if COVID was the only risk and the only negative, and any other matter was necessarily secondary. To even mention these…

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Post by xwdv »

lowercased wrote: post #401
tssva wrote: post #394

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The US doesn't have huge lockdowns.

Yeah - came here to say this. > .../ everyone basically lives their life like before, except wearing masks in public places and mandatory vaccination to visit a mall or a restaurant (also "manageble"). Most places I go in public (mainly grocery/retail stores) it's around 40% of the people I see do not wear masks, even when signs are clearly posted. I'm out in public far less than I was 2 years ago, so perhaps I'm sta…

I’ve entered Apple stores with mask but then removed it and no one said anything.

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Post by SamoyedFurFluff »

pdimitar wrote: post #223
evocatus wrote: post #214

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More pontification and intellectualization of matters that people have no first-hand experience of, as is HN's wont. As someone with over 20 years of mental health issues who refused medication for exactly the same reasons - "sucking it up," trying to address root causes, meditation, spirituality, exercise... ... none of it worked. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to "root cause" the source of your malady and…

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Maybe you should consider studying rhetoric when making positional statements in the future. It’s clear that your language is failing to fully encompass your position. I myself am very confused how I can take away skepticism that any medical will help at all as somehow having any nuance that medication might work.

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Post by someonehere »

I never thought I’d be the victim of this pandemic but consider myself a victim now.

My mental health has deteriorated to a point where it’s difficult to juggle work and family responsibilities. I put family first and work second. But the people I work with don’t know or care that I can’t work on something because I’m home stuck taking care of family trapped in quarantine hell. When I do tell them some change their tone.

I’m suffering from the fact that when I work, I give it 100%. Any less and I feel like a failure. I’ve had blips at work where I’ve threatened to my boss that I can’t work there anymore because I can’t give it 100%. I don’t want to put myself in a situation where I get fired. I’d rather leave on my own terms and let someone who can do my job at their 100% in.

It’s not my job’s fault for my home arrangement. They’ve gone above and beyond to give me support and work with me. At the same time there’s no support from our government to help me with assistance should I decide I can’t work anymore.

Our government has failed on a lot and it doesn’t matter if it’s Trump or Biden. There’s too much red tape and too much looking out for big businesses and not enough to help people.

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Post by SamoyedFurFluff »

pdimitar wrote: post #411
tux3 wrote: post #352

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Unfortunately, we can't see any of the nuance that's inside your head. You really have to write that out, or people are right to prepare for the risk that you meant exactly what you wrote .

Skepticism != complete disbelief I'm amazed I even have to point that out.

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Post by Breazy »

sumedh wrote: post #408
xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #105

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Why do you assume I am referring to the US? Maybe for you it's normal for there to be looting and rampant crime in the face of crisis or emergency scenarios but I don't think that speaks for the rest of the world. > Many countries do not have the health infrastructure the US has and have not undergone societal collapse. What does this mean? We have universal healthcare and in my city emergency services are so overwhe…

> emergency services are so overwhelmed Is it because of the vaccinated or unvaccinated people?

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Post by ZeroGravitas »

chernevik wrote: post #425
api wrote: post #421

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> The US policy response has been far more costly and destructive than it needed to be. As with many things, the US response combined all the worst parts of the left's reaction to the pandemic with all the worst aspects of the right's. We had ham-fisted lockdowns (of dubious effectiveness) that destroyed small business and harmed mental health while simultaneously we had a right-wing crackpot antivaccination movement…

The anti-vax movement isn't just right-wing. Blacks are the most under-vaccinated demographic. And it is important to distinguish those who are against mandates from those who are against the vaccine.

I think this is misleading.

It's very notable that the states where the racial gap is highest are

a) not doing very well on mass vaccination b) Republican

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...

So I think it's fair to ask if these people have been denied the vaccine more than they've rejected it.

Meanwhile, the stats fairly clearly show political affiliation to be a bigger factor:

> According to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) released on Sept. 28, gaps in vaccination rates across racial and ethnic groups have virtually disappeared—while gaps reflecting political affiliation have widened substantially.

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