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Focusing on covid would have completely misdirected from the important point that this trend has been in place for decades. I know the comments section is every
by gdulli 5y ago
Focusing on covid would have completely misdirected from the important point that this trend has been in place for decades. I know the comments section is everyone's chance to project their personal covid grievance on whatever they're reading. But if you truly take this issue seriously you should be interested in its actual causes, which clearly predate covid. If you'd rather weaponize the cause in service of partisan nudging of the line on public health policy back and forth around the middle, go ahead I guess.
- jeffbee 5y agoIt would have been intellectually dishonest because actual youth suicides were not up in 2020 compared to 2019, were down considerably from 2018, and among the focus of this article, urban youth in New York, were in fact way way down, by over 50%. Personally I would have chosen to focus on the nihilism of consumer materialism, starting with this poor child's list of empty "goals".