Study: Covid-19 closures can harm kids' mental health (CNN)

[ItsjustMe]

A new study says that children and adolescents have experienced physical and mental health problems related to school closures and lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic.

[PSPS]

1. So let's kill them instead, amirite?

[lapfog_1]

2. And the actual disease can damage their actual brains

I think I would rather risk therapy

https://dana.org/article/the-brain-and-covid-strides-and-speculations/?gclid=CjwKCAiA55mPBhBOEiwANmzoQskUa6pDwhjVee7COyrpW9DNPYpkBp07vQg4Y-C4320geMdt4BKEARoCtncQAvD_BwE

[Salviati]

3. Right.

We're living through a global pandemic. No one is getting through this without any adverse effects. The only thing we can do is choose the effects that have the fewest and least severe long term consequences.

[Texaswitchy]

4. But getting sick is better.

This is just stupid.

[Claire Oh Nette]

5. know what else traumatizes kids?

Their teachers dying mid year.

[Phoenix61]

10. Not to mention their caregivers, grandparents etc...nt

[Runningdawg]

6. It must be difficult to make it to therapy session when you are in a coma.

Maybe we could give their slot to their nurse or parent?

[onecaliberal]

7. Dead children are DEAD.

I hate this fucked up world.

[Irish_Dem]

8. First rule of mental health: you cannot help a dead patient.

I am a retired mental health professional. From time to time when I was in practice, a medical professional or family would call me concerned that a medical procedure might do some psychological damage.

The first thing I would ask is what happens if you don't do the procedure?
When I got an answer saying the patient could die, I always said "you keep the patient alive, I will take care of the psych issues afterwards."

Seems obvious to me.

[Phoenix61]

9. I'm calling bullshit on this.

You can’t separate the effects of school closures from the effects of the pandemic because they happen at the same time. This is spinning data to support keeping schools open.