08-04-2021, 12:35 AM
(08-03-2021, 11:21 PM)Dana Wrote:(08-03-2021, 12:53 PM)searchinmyroots Wrote:(08-03-2021, 10:48 AM)Blue Bird Wrote: This is not about vaccines, I just read this article about people who are indirectly affected by the current events. They can't talk about their lives anymore.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021...ecord-high
Yes, there is another pandemic with loss of lives that is happening.
“We’re living in a parallel pandemic: a drug, alcohol, and mental health pandemic that has only worsened due to the virus. Enough is enough … we need to come together as a society and take real action.”
“Covid-19 has impacted on the nation’s mental health, but the effect of isolation, financial insecurity and fear has hit many of those who were already vulnerable..."
A very sad reality are the deaths due to the reaction of the virus not the virus itself. Newslink after newslink continue to report the virus as the main culprit rather than the reaction to it. Why is that? We've had flu viruses in the past and did not respond by crushing livelihoods and destroying peoples lives. We dealt with it as a part of life and death. While the death rate remains incredibly low especially among children and young people the impact of the lockdown and mandated mask wearing has certainly caused its share of harm.
Absolutely!
Our poor children who have lost so much precious time both learning and interacting. A lot more children have died year after year from the flu than from this virus. Why weren't there any lockdowns then?
So many loved ones who died without being able to see their own family.
How many people who lost their jobs, their businesses and livelihoods.
If the ones with obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and cardio vascular disease are the top contributors to death from/with Covid, why are they giving out free donuts and other things that add to their diseases? Where is the concern to help prevent, stabilize or even reverse those diseases where it is clearly documented as contributing to the most deaths?
That is what irks me, that all they talk about is an injection and continue to ignore the biggest contributors to deaths, even if there wasn't any Covid. Even if they spoke about it just as often, saying how just as important it is as the injection, then I wouldn't see things as so one-sided.