The self-serving mantra of the pandemic dictators and their bootlicking snitches is “Stay home, save lives”.
But do they really care about saving lives? Because, if they did, why would they support a policy which the evidence clearly shows not only does not save lives, but in fact costs even more lives than the Wuhan plague?
Epidemiologists are already projecting a surge in deaths from illnesses other than the China virus, due to lockdowns. There is already evidence of a spike in suicides, especially in young people.
Another grim statistic can now be added to the roster of lives lost due to flawed COVID policies.
Elementary school students are heading back to in person learning after eighteen students in Clark County, Nevada, took their own lives in the last nine months of 2020, according to The New York Times.
The fears of more tragedies are outweighing the concerns of spreading the coronavirus as the youngest student to kill themselves was nine years old.
In Australia, too, there has been a dire spike in child suicides. This should be a cause for utmost alarm, given that child suicides are normally extremely rare.
The government mandated shutdowns have had a devastating effect on students’ mental health, grades and attendance. Health and education experts around the world have struggled with the best way to protect students, faculty and families, especially those in the at risk category, while balancing student’s need for education and socialization.
Student’s academics have also suffered. According to The Hill, “In Virginia’s largest school district, the number of F’s nearly doubled among middle school and high school students.” School districts across the country have experimented with different solutions, none of which have proved an adequate substitution for in person instruction.
The lives of young people are being robbed and blighted, all in the name of a disease which kills hardly anyone but the very old and already very sick.
Clark County superintendent Jesus Jara told The Times, “When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the COVID numbers we need to look at anymore”[…]
Jara added that the 18 suicides in 9 months was double the number of suicides recorded in the school district in 2019.
As of November 23, 2020 suicide rates among Seattle youth rose almost 30 percent. In 2019, youth suicides accounted for 8.33 percent of the county’s suicides, now youth suicide comprises 38.46 percent of the total suicides[…]
A survey, released by Parents Together, found that the majority of kids surveyed, 70 percent, “reported feeling sad, overwhelmed and worried. Nearly half the parents, 44 percent, are saying that their kids are struggling with mental wellness since the start of the pandemic.”
In July 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield said that suicides and drug overdoses had surpassed the death rate for COVID-19 among high school students.
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So much for “save lives”.
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