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It doesn’t just suck to be stuck inside, we have data now linking the isolation with increase drug overdoses, domestic abuse, depression and even suicide. If you’ve been in public at all in the last year, you can see it- people are going absolutely bat shit insane at an alarming rate.
There is a cost to the message that it’s too dangerous to be outside *at all* when we should merely be telling people to keep their distance, mask up and utilize barriers when near others, and of course, get fucking vaccinated. Literally confining people to their homes like in Australia is fucking *insane*.
Comment by solidpenguin at 31/08/2021 at 00:28 UTC
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It's kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.
There are definitely negative repercussions for people being in isolation, especially those the most susceptible to the situations you laid out above. Telling everyone to stay inside is not a perfect solution by any means, but, and although it feels fucked up or utilitarian to say it, we are talking about life and death here, a complete isolation would have saved more lives than what's happened. And while we wouldn't need to be as extreme as some countries, if we had a stronger lockdown we would have been in the clear quicker and then things would have returned a bit closer to normal a lot faster. Instead states all over eased up, and then had to pull the reign in more with rising cases, eased up again, and now who knows.