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That’s just the tip of the iceberg too. A quick summary of the lockdown harms: missed hospital visits for heart attacks and cancer screening, cancelled childho

That’s just the tip of the iceberg too. A quick summary of the lockdown harms: missed hospital visits for heart attacks and cancer screening, cancelled childhood vaccinations, school closures, child and spousal abuse, kids growing up without seeing facial expressions on others, pain from postponed elective (including dental) procedures, food shortages in the third world (and even in developed countries), the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in the US, massive economic damage, closed gyms and sports, suicide & mental illness

mynameishere 6y ago
To put this into concrete terms, imagine the number of breast cancer screenings that were delayed by two or three months--or more, as some people were so terrified by the pandemic that they pushed back appointments beyond that required. How many? Five hundred thousand? A million? Now how many of those might have caught cancer early? All of those are much more dangerous or even deadly than they might have been. That's one type of preventative treatment. Now picture all the prostate exams, blood work, colonoscopies, skin cancer screenings, etc, etc, etc. Multiply it out and you have a massive scourge caused by the media's promotion of a flu-like disease. But multiplication is hard.
1experience 6y ago
And you aren't even considering the effects on developing countries 150 Million pushed into Extreme Poverty by 2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/covid-19-to-add-as-many-as-150-million-extreme-poor-by-2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/c... 168k child hunger deaths predicted in Africa https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-children-0e2a17d63163d8558d203b2824a844fe https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-c...
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  The effects on developing countries are not just on poverty levels but the natural environment as well. Wildlife conservation effects in East Africa and Madagascar are funded predominantly by tourists being able to come in and look at the animals; state support is meagre. A year of no travel has meant no income and some park staff being laid off, which means opening the door to more poaching and illegal land use.
croes 6y ago
Vs traumatized from death of relatives, death from overloaded hospitals, food shortages because death of working family members. And why are kids grow up without seeing facial expressions? They are not isolated but spend more time with their parents, what's wrong with the world if this leads to mental health problems. Year after year it was told parents need to spend more time with their children to built up their confidence and now this? Could it ve it's not the lockdown, that causes the mental health problems but the pandemic?
- 1experience 6y ago
  Please tell me where are all these deaths in Sweden, Belarus, Brazil, Florida... https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-... So you're telling me that in places like Brazil more people are being traumatized by deaths in overloaded hospitals compared to Westerners (who are less traumatized) thanks to a year of isolation? uhmm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q
  - croes 6y ago
    Ask yourself, what's the bigger trauma for you. Your partner dies of COVID-19, you can't see your parents for a year.
    - soupbowl 6y ago
      COVID is not a death sentence for the majority of people that get it.
      - croes 6y ago
        Neither is the lockdown
        throwaway53453 6y ago

mynameishere 6y ago

To put this into concrete terms, imagine the number of breast cancer screenings that were delayed by two or three months--or more, as some people were so terrified by the pandemic that they pushed back appointments beyond that required. How many? Five hundred thousand? A million? Now how many of those might have caught cancer early? All of those are much more dangerous or even deadly than they might have been. That's one type of preventative treatment. Now picture all the prostate exams, blood work, colonoscopies, skin cancer screenings, etc, etc, etc. Multiply it out and you have a massive scourge caused by the media's promotion of a flu-like disease. But multiplication is hard.

1experience 6y ago

And you aren't even considering the effects on developing countries 150 Million pushed into Extreme Poverty by 2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/covid-19-to-add-as-many-as-150-million-extreme-poor-by-2021 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/10/07/c... 168k child hunger deaths predicted in Africa https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-children-0e2a17d63163d8558d203b2824a844fe https://apnews.com/article/africa-hunger-study-coronavirus-c...

Mediterraneo10 6y ago
The effects on developing countries are not just on poverty levels but the natural environment as well. Wildlife conservation effects in East Africa and Madagascar are funded predominantly by tourists being able to come in and look at the animals; state support is meagre. A year of no travel has meant no income and some park staff being laid off, which means opening the door to more poaching and illegal land use.

croes 6y ago

Vs traumatized from death of relatives, death from overloaded hospitals, food shortages because death of working family members. And why are kids grow up without seeing facial expressions? They are not isolated but spend more time with their parents, what's wrong with the world if this leads to mental health problems. Year after year it was told parents need to spend more time with their children to built up their confidence and now this? Could it ve it's not the lockdown, that causes the mental health problems but the pandemic?

1experience 6y ago
Please tell me where are all these deaths in Sweden, Belarus, Brazil, Florida... https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-deaths/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-... So you're telling me that in places like Brazil more people are being traumatized by deaths in overloaded hospitals compared to Westerners (who are less traumatized) thanks to a year of isolation? uhmm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcAYObnlehE&t=2623s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnKke19Ow8Q
- croes 6y ago
  Ask yourself, what's the bigger trauma for you. Your partner dies of COVID-19, you can't see your parents for a year.
  - soupbowl 6y ago
    COVID is not a death sentence for the majority of people that get it.
    - croes 6y ago
      Neither is the lockdown
      - throwaway53453 6y ago