I don't know if I necessarily buy some of this articles arguments. It mentions the effects of stay at home, such as increases in deaths of despair. Wouldn't tha

I don't know if I necessarily buy some of this articles arguments. It mentions the effects of stay at home, such as increases in deaths of despair. Wouldn't that also have gone up because many of those might've been caregivers or breadwinners of a family? And for the domestic abuse (which imo is the worst), a lot of those victims were already undergoing mental abuse since that's largely a precursor to physical and these reports already should've been happening because imo mental abuse is equal to physical, it's just that people are less likely to report this behavior. It just has such long lasting effects. I can't back up either of those claims, so maybe I'm being dumb, but those two takes seem a bit strange. The stats on cancer or heart related treatment seems to be backed up though, so I can't comment on that. The real issue with all of this is that the Trump administration is incompetent and American government in general is reactionary and only promotes policies that are selfish. Its been known for years that people have no safety net, just put on NPR and like once a week this comes up, and it's always been known that small businesses really aren't racking in the cash to stay afloat for a long time without money. The government just needs to step up and support people, with health care for all, with long term financial assistance, and they need to increase taxes to do this. They are sort of doing it now with checks, but that's going to go away once the pandemic is over and everybody who is not in tech or generally upper middle class will go back to being on edge because one disaster will eff to their lives. You also can't blame this on epidimiologists. They provide their assessment and policy makers have to weigh those options with all the other ones and come up with a strategy. That'd be like be like blaming the person who came up with the hail marry when it is a coach's decision to use it every play.