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The new public gathering limits do not apply to school districts. Sisolak stated that the closure of schools has had a huge negative effect on students.
"We have seen more deaths by suicide among students this fall than in years prior, and it breaks my heart to share that victims have included students as young as 8 years old," Sisolak said
Quotes Kid, who only cares about such things when it advances his agenda.
Kid, I posted this article months ago:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/09/11/youth-suicide-rate-increases-cdc-report-finds/3463549001/You had nothing to say about it then.
This is from a couple weeks ago:
https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/us-suicide-attempts-have-increased-11-since-2015-study/Elsewhere:
Monday's conference also addressed what Hoffman called twin crises -- the virus itself and youth suicide. In 2019, there were 38 suicides in Arizona among those under age 17. This year, there have already been 43.
~AZFamily.com
But it is not uniform:
There does not yet appear to be an overall change in the suspected suicide rate in the 7 months since Queensland declared a public health emergency. Despite this, COVID-19 has contributed to some suspected suicides in Queensland. Ongoing community spread and increasing death rates of COVID-19, and its impact on national economies and mental health, reinforces the need for governments to maintain the monitoring and reporting of suicide mortality in real time.
~The Lancet
This, absurdly enough, is the best discussion I have read on it:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/yout-n20.htmlNew data from a nationwide survey of young Americans, ages 18-24, has shed further light on the scale of the unfolding mental health crisis. The survey, “The State of the Nation,” examined depressive symptoms among these young adults, including thoughts of suicide, generalized anxiety and disruption in sleep.
Overall, across four national waves (in late May, late June, late August and mid-October), researchers found alarming rates of depression, with nearly half of this young adult population—47.3 percent—showing at least moderate depressive symptoms in October, the highest level since June.
This figure is close to 10 times the pre-pandemic rate, which was already staggering.
The source of this crisis is no mystery. The youthful years are meant to be a time filled with hope, optimism and idealism. For those coming of age in 2020, this time presents itself instead as a nightmare.
Young people have suffered immensely from isolation, not being able to see their friends and socialize in the way that is so necessary for healthy human development. Those who are a bit older have watched the death toll from the virus climb each day, in disbelief, as it now surpasses a quarter of a million people.
They have heard the stories, or know first-hand, of the social misery taking place—people dying alone in hospital beds without a loved one allowed in the room to say goodbye. Millions have themselves waited with their parents in the food lines that stretch for miles. Others have lost their homes, ruthlessly evicted even as millions more are added to the list of unemployed each month.
They have been violently shaken into adulthood watching their parents suffer from the anxiety, grief and depression brought on by the economic catastrophe sweeping the country.
There are millions of working-class parents and young people struggling to survive who are looking for answers to this immense crisis. They want what is best for their children and are willing to sacrifice whatever is necessary to secure for them a safe environment and hopeful future.
In this context, the Democratic and Republican parties, aided by their mouthpieces in the bourgeois media, are attempting to exploit the severe mental health crisis among youth, and the anxiety felt by parents, to force the reopening of schools on the basis that the “cure cannot be worse than the disease.”
The failure of Congress and the President to provide aid - and not just the PPP - to families and the failure of the president to provide national leadership on COVID-19 has exacerbated the problem, though I freely grant that determining how much impact what has on what is pretty tough.
But with more than a million kids already diagnosed with COVID-19 and no measure to actually improve the lives of the majority of Americans who are struggling financially, just putting the kids back in school won't solve the depression problem that leads to those suicides.
And as the AZ family piece makes clear, the problem
before the pandemic was far worse and insufficiently addressed.
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