Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
The US policy response has been far more costly and destructive than it needed to be.<p>The pandemic response completely ignored the costs of shutdowns.  There has been little or no consideration of their impact on physical health, mental health, education, business, employment, worship.  It has been as if COVID was the only risk and the only negative, and any other matter was necessarily secondary.  To even mention these matters was considered obtuse.<p>We have also exaggerated the risks.  The disease has a 0.3 risk of fatality, still less for Omicron, and its fatalities largely occur among people with known risk factors.  Children are essentially immune from serious effects, but this has been ignored by policy.<p>ETA: At some point we need a serious reckoning of how we, as a society, mishandled this so badly.  I think we&#x27;ll find the mistakes we&#x27;ve made aren&#x27;t made on COVID only.