Our pages are top-heavy with research and opinion on the political response to COVID19. In most cases, the ‘cure’ is worse than the “disease,” especially for young people who have little to nothing to fear. But one County School District has seen the light, sadly only after the darkness of suicide settled upon them.
Related: Hammers and Nails: Stop Treating COVID As If it is Equally Dangerous to Everybody.
While the political response continues to fail at keeping the sick alive, a growing number of teenagers are committing suicide after months of constant fearmongering, lockdowns, and (what I’ll call) social distancing depression.
The problem has gotten so bad in Clark County, Nevada, that they are going back to school (in-person learning) in the interest of public health.
“The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth-largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible,” the NYT reported Sunday. “This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.”
The real public health threat continues to be the heavy-handed political response applied to everyone when people 65 and older with existing illnesses account for 97% of all deaths (in NH). People we have lost despite the expert’s political and medical interventions.
Actions that are harming the healthy.
Mental health, they say, is intrinsically linked to physical health — something few entities considered during the virus’ first wave — and even though the risk of contracting and spreading the novel coronavirus remains high in places like Nevada, the risk of losing a generation to isolation-driven depression and anxiety is weighing heavy on administrators.
It is not just a generation of kids. The politicians have destroyed generations of wealth as well. Businesses gone, families ruined, jobs lost, education, treatments, and therapies delayed, and sadly, the lives of people whose only crime is being treated as if COVID19 is equally dangerous across the spectrum when, early on, we knew that was untrue.
It is information they needed to hear, but any message of hope was shut-down repeatedly by politicians, the press, and big tech.
Denied a voice and lacking even basic freedoms, many have chosen to escape the world these politicians have crafted through destructive behavior, addiction, and suicide.
COVID didn’t do that; people with a blind agenda did that.
