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Everyone's mental health is deteriorating in these lockdowns. This interpretation of the data seems lacking. The same study should be done in places with minima

Everyone's mental health is deteriorating in these lockdowns. This interpretation of the data seems lacking. The same study should be done in places with minimal lockdowns with their covid patients: Sweeden and South Dakota. What if it's just mental illness is just up due to the lockdowns, and recovering from COVID is just a false correlation? My mental health is deteriorating. I hate all of humanity. I can't stand most of my friends. I can't even stand reading most of the comments in this thread, which feel like they're going on with this insane hysteria that's sweeping our planet. Yes COVID is bad and has killed many elderly (95% over 55), but the majority of us have been put in lockdowns that are likely very ineffective. We're being told to cover our faces, our primary means of communicating with each other via facial expressions. Anyone trying to say the masks are not very effective (they're not) are being silenced on all platforms. This is insane and it's hysteria. History will not look back kindly at this time. We are not in this together. We're in this alone. Humanity is looking through the world through the eye of a straw.

dehrmann 6y ago
> Anyone trying to say the masks are not very effective (they're not) I need to look into this again. Mid-summer, studies were either in vitro or limited to medical settings. One I saw analyzing a natural experiment didn't make it clear if their numbers were relative or absolute. It reported a 2% benefit, but that can mean very different things. Maybe there's something better out now. There was a comment I read on HN suggesting spread at home is where we should pay more attention. It explains why Bay Area-level masking hasn't ~eliminated new cases, why minority communities (read: larger households) are hit harder, and puts Sweden, a country where most people live alone, in context.

dehrmann 6y ago

> Anyone trying to say the masks are not very effective (they're not) I need to look into this again. Mid-summer, studies were either in vitro or limited to medical settings. One I saw analyzing a natural experiment didn't make it clear if their numbers were relative or absolute. It reported a 2% benefit, but that can mean very different things. Maybe there's something better out now. There was a comment I read on HN suggesting spread at home is where we should pay more attention. It explains why Bay Area-level masking hasn't ~eliminated new cases, why minority communities (read: larger households) are hit harder, and puts Sweden, a country where most people live alone, in context.