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I mean fuck I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but cmon… this draws attention to poor mental health following COVID. Has no one seen the developed world

I mean fuck I know correlation doesn’t equal causation but cmon… this draws attention to poor mental health following COVID. Has no one seen the developed world lately? It’s fucking terrible for mental health. The news tells you the sky is falling every five minutes, the loudest and most observable voices are full of spite and anguish. For god sakes they shut everything down. Business owners have their livelihoods stolen from them, poor and middle class can actively observe those above them keep going up while they stay put. Children cannot be allowed around around other children because adults who have already lived their lives get to choose what’s best. In general the rules being made in the past 2 years have been vehemently opposed to maintaining peoples mental health. I know this study was not exactly opinionated, but the world shitting out and then people are also exhibiting symptoms of poor mental health…Quite the fucking coincidence if you ask me.

PraetorianGourd 5y ago
Yeah I think it’s reasonable that even the self-reported mentally a-ok people may have some latent depression, anxiety etc. just from the impacts of literally every aspect of life being dominated by one thing for the past 2 years.
fivea 5y ago
> I know this study was not exactly opinionated, but the world shitting out and then people are also exhibiting symptoms of poor mental health…Quite the fucking coincidence if you ask me. The alternative was having dead bodies stacked high in makeshift morgues like commandeered ice rinks with the military running frenetically to keep emergency field hospitals from collapsing while gather up the dead. I know that because I lived through it in Spain in its first covid wave. I remember very vividly the army trucks speeding through the streets, and the covid hotline being totally overwhelmed without a better answer to give people beyond "just stay put and don't go to hospitals because they already can't cope". I recall experiencing covid symptoms which were gradually getting worse to the point I didn't knew I was going to wake up the next day, without anyone or anything to turn to. I recall their mobile app to report symptoms, and how they called back when I stopped using the app to perform a death check. I also recall that rigorous 3 week lockdowns were all it took to decimate the spread of the disease and death rate, and how their effect is sabotaged by those who refuse basic higiene, health and safety measures like social distancing, washing hands, and wear a face mask. Is it hard to endure a lockdown? Yes it is. But I lived the alternative first-hand and I need to say it is much much harder. Perhaps the hardest is seeing all these people actively sabotaging any chance to make covid stop being a problem

PraetorianGourd 5y ago

Yeah I think it’s reasonable that even the self-reported mentally a-ok people may have some latent depression, anxiety etc. just from the impacts of literally every aspect of life being dominated by one thing for the past 2 years.

fivea 5y ago

> I know this study was not exactly opinionated, but the world shitting out and then people are also exhibiting symptoms of poor mental health…Quite the fucking coincidence if you ask me. The alternative was having dead bodies stacked high in makeshift morgues like commandeered ice rinks with the military running frenetically to keep emergency field hospitals from collapsing while gather up the dead. I know that because I lived through it in Spain in its first covid wave. I remember very vividly the army trucks speeding through the streets, and the covid hotline being totally overwhelmed without a better answer to give people beyond "just stay put and don't go to hospitals because they already can't cope". I recall experiencing covid symptoms which were gradually getting worse to the point I didn't knew I was going to wake up the next day, without anyone or anything to turn to. I recall their mobile app to report symptoms, and how they called back when I stopped using the app to perform a death check. I also recall that rigorous 3 week lockdowns were all it took to decimate the spread of the disease and death rate, and how their effect is sabotaged by those who refuse basic higiene, health and safety measures like social distancing, washing hands, and wear a face mask. Is it hard to endure a lockdown? Yes it is. But I lived the alternative first-hand and I need to say it is much much harder. Perhaps the hardest is seeing all these people actively sabotaging any chance to make covid stop being a problem