I like how the headline highlights the one study that says it was minimal, but the description points out that other studies found that the opposite happened.
Conclusions High risk of bias in many studies and substantial heterogeneity suggest caution in interpreting results.
from the bmj link in the article
Yeah, that whole covid thing worked wonders for my already fucked up brain
Ahaha :this-is-fine:
Lol I was already struggling hard with a relapse of anxiety leading towards waves of agoraphobia and hypochondria the year before the fucking thing hit.
I was on the mend, back at the gym, sort of getting over it and then bam fuck you specifically.
Most people remained resilient, BMJ research suggests, but others say some groups were badly affected.
Fuck some groups, amirite?
sorry, I think this rules. The biggest stupidest anti vaxxers in the US go around saying, " those covid authoritarians made me have mental issues because I couldn't go to church or restaurants or the gym or online date and I was so victimized." I don't know what they're saying the impact on kids was, but it is also probably being overblown by a media that knows people will pay attention to debates like this
The study just ignored children and teens, which it explicitly notes were most likely to be effected, so it's honestly kind of pointless. I will conveniently ignore that fact when arguing with pro-COVID dipshits though.
Same. I do wonder what the genuine effects on children but I think some parents probably made it worse freaking their kids out about what was being done to them
I imagine the bigger concern is likely the trauma done by COVID (death of parents/family members/friends, long covid, etc).
Childhood poverty did decline during the pandemic, afterward is another story, but at least during the pandemic I could imagine some mental health benefits for kids in addition to the obvious drawbacks.
One of the main functions of libera media is gaslighting the working classes.
sorry everyone I fucked up the stats by becoming less mentally ill due to pandemic. or, well, probably about as mentally ill as I was before but having more fun with it. a touch of jokerfication
Well, seeing as how I now have Agoraphobia, I would disagree with this
I have a different study I'd like to bring up Mr BBC News (World), let me just go get my drill
Oh yeah me downing a fifth of whiskey every night was certainly a sign of resilience
negates the ability to develop strong and adaptable natural immunity
afaik this isn't true, and is a common antivax thing to say. maybe revise this post because I appreciate the last sentence but the rest of it is a little sus
We have the people's cdc here that's definitely better then the official guvmint one. Idk if there's anything similar that's more local for you
The vaccines more or less do very little to stop the spread of the virus, but they do have a moderate impact on severity and hospitalization which alone is enough reason to continue getting vaccinated and is likely the reason that out of like 40 COVID patients I've had, only like 3 have died as a direct result. Could argue for another 3-5 getting pushed down and reaching a tipping point in their health, but compared to about 50% before vaccinations, there's a notable improvement.
The complete abandonment of precautions is a giant mess with countless factors that led to the overall shittier world we live in as a result. Americans were lied to by health officials on a regular basis throughout the pandemic and it's quite clear that the overall impact has been downplayed. With an already significant level of distrust in the American healthcare system as a result of private healthcare and a profit motive driving decisions, people were long-since primed to have massive problems with any health response. Currently, the CDC has stripped most precautions away in even healthcare settings with most of our COVID cases now coming from the hospital rather than families. When people have called the department of health regarding unsafe staffing though, they state that there's nothing to be done since we're in the middle of a pandemic and staffing is going to be stretched thin.
The problem really isn't with the lockdowns and never will be. The problem comes from a system of exploitation that needs to be fed constantly. Workers need to be precarious otherwise they'll start using their labor power and demanding more. As it stands though, the people in power have realized that they're relatively insulated from the worst of the pandemic and no longer care. Short term profits are more important than long term stability. The horrifying thing is that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie has determined that it's acceptable for a continued pandemic to ravage the working class, the tides of global politics are shifting and they can only focus on squeezing what they can out before it's too late, hoping they'll have bunkers that will keep them safe. TL;DR the problem wasn't lockdowns, it was and always will be the bourgeoisie's insatiable greed and the endless lives they will sacrifice for it.
develop strong and adaptable natural immunity
This is like saying people should have developed a natural immunity to polio.
Most people didn’t isolate though. Most people lived their lives the same as before
