Current Events > Surprisingly, the narrative the covid restrictions are leading to mass suicide

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seems to be bullshit:
https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1492389247029952516?t=U1L1CsR9jaEHiL1JcR54ng&s=19

Interesting, would be interested in diving into this more deeply. While it was clear that the whole thing was overblown and politicized, would have expected a small uptick. Important to be careful, confounders can mask a real causal effect.

These are the morons experts face daily:

Reading your tweets for a while now Dr Black and its hard for me to watch you claim that the rising mental health crisis in this country has no correlation to the restrictions we have placed on kids. And that this somehow justifies continuing to mask my 6 yr old. Its odd to me.

His response: the data shows what it shows.

I believe it. People didn't give two shits about the quarantine. If people were getting that lonely, they would've went out. They don't care. They just pretended they did on social media.

My counselor friend is saying her field has turned into a warzone since covid started

Lots of drug abuse and child pornography sharing going on (albeit its mainly amongst peers, still very bad)

Squall28 posted...

I believe it. People didn't give two shits about the quarantine. If people were getting that lonely, they would've went out. They don't care. They just pretended they did on social media.

Yeah the only way to actually enforce the quarantine is like with China, with armed guards.

I don't know anyone who believes the covid suicide narrative that isn't a trumpo/conspiracy theorist nutbag

I'm starting to see non-right wingers adopt this logic now when arguing in favor of dropping restrictions. Fucking infuriating.

Here in South Carolina, local parents keep making the claim that missing school due to Covid is abusive to their kids. They just want to be in school. Um, when I was growing up, the overwhelming majority loved missing school. Did that change? Somehow find it hard to believe that it did.

Probably less suicides among young people because they aren't forced into toxic environments all the time due to stay at home orders.

Didn't you hear? The truth doesn't matter anymore. Whatever Fox news says is reality now.

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Abortions and lower birthrates are preemptive suicide!/s

Squall28 posted...

I believe it. People didn't give two shits about the quarantine. If people were getting that lonely, they would've went out. They don't care. They just pretended they did on social media.

This. I work at a hotel, and as soon as the quarantine and travel restrictions were out in place we started selling out every night. Business and people travelling picked up so much. Most of them used the excuse that they were trying to get home or be with family before quarantining but that stopped being believable when they were back every other week, or after a month and they had supposedly only just then prepared to go home.

Then of course, most of them would threaten me if they caught anything while out. Then getting angry about how busy we were and that we should turn travellers away... Ugh, you realize you're travelling right? Obviously a lot these people are not the brightest, but it really highlighted the ones with no awareness.

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Will Tom Nichols ever appear on Joe Rogan?

...HAS he?