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The isolation, grief and economic hardship related to Covid-19 are creating a mental health crisis in the U.S. that researchers warn could make the already-rising suicide rate worse.
A study tried to quantify the toll. The paper, which was not peer-reviewed, found that over the next decade as many as 75,000 additional people could die from “deaths of despair” as a result of the coronavirus crisis, a term that refers to suicides and substance-abuse-related deaths.
“One of the main things people should take away from this paper is that employment matters,” said Benjamin Miller, chief strategy officer at the Well Being Trust and a clinical psychologist who worked on the paper. “It matters for our economic livelihood, and for our mental and emotional health.”
Comment:
Lunacy the state of being a lunatic; insanity (not in technical use). extreme folly or eccentricity.
intermittent insanity once believed to be related to phases of the moon wild foolishness : extravagant folly a foolish act Absurdity, stupidity, idiocy,
The cheap prices we pay for high quality under priced imports and Chinese products is GREAT!! But obviously long term, now a global virus, is not worth it. Tobacco, cocaine, heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl, morphine etc all feel great too, but not worth it.
Some Things Matter Too Much, like Plastic bags and straws, and Some Things Like Gold And Isolationism Don’t Matter Enough.