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Suicidal ideation among kids in the US is up 100%, suicide attempts are up 50%, actual suicides are up 20%. Dead kids are also pretty &¤#&%#!" permanent. And

Suicidal ideation among kids in the US is up 100%, suicide attempts are up 50%, actual suicides are up 20%. Dead kids are also pretty &¤#&%#!" permanent. And this is the thing that's been missing for the past two years: A sensible cost/benefit discussion. Hell, we haven't even acknowledged that every single pandemic rule and restriction and measure has a cost in human life. Instead, we've been getting shitty platitudes about how "kids are resilient", or "it's just two weeks", or "your surgery is non-essential and therefore postponed".

tablespoon 5y ago
>> [Column A] People dying because hospitals filled up and cases climbed is permanent. > [Column B] Dead kids are also pretty &¤#&%#!" permanent. > And this is the thing that's been missing for the past two years: A sensible cost/benefit discussion. So, which is higher: Column A or Column B? I haven't checked the numbers, but I'd be astounded if there wasn't at least and order of magnitude more COVID deaths during this pandemic than total number of teen suicides (i.e. all of them, not just the increase due to the pandemic).