COVID-19 isolation drives Brunswick teenager to suicide

Just another innocent victim of the cruel, unscientific, tyrannical lockdowns. Those who support lockdowns are causing massive suffering and death for no reason at all, as lockdowns clearly do nothing to save lives.

The utter insanity of the lockdown culture that has emerged this year is staggering in its viciousness, its callousness, and its disregard for basic humanity.

 

I haven't been driven to suicide by this, but I can imagine why anyone would be. Human beings aren't meant to be locked up in their homes(that, my friends is called house arrest.). The coronavirus does not strip us of our common humanity, and if it does then we lost to the virus without putting up a fight.

A true fight is one that thinks of protections for the most vulnerable, while at the same time allowing people to continue to live their lives in peace.

 

9 months so far

what have we learned? We've learned that despite killing the economy(lockdowns), standing apart from each other and masking up, people still catch the virus. What we've also learned is that the super majority who have been infected have never been tested, because they had mild symptoms. So, we create tyranny based upon only those who were tested and try and justify it. Then, we learned that people have grown to be so afraid of their own shadow, that they will believe anything that statists tell them and if it's on NBC/ABC/CBS et al, then it must be true

We've also learned that in the entire scheme of things, very few die because of covid

yes, it's a virus and yes, we are in flu season and wanna guess how flu deaths will be reported???

 

How many suicides have there been due to their partner, parent or child dying from the Virus?

 

I know of six people dead from the lockdown. All were facing financial ruin because of the lockdown.

 

Currently around 700 per week according to CDC data. 3000 more for the year to date compared to last year
https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6

 

We have had 25 years of Republicans refusing to do any stimulus in recessions.

Now, suddenly, 9 trillion dollars worth of stimulus spending have been expended by Republicans, some of those trillions in the middle of excellent economic recovery, but it is only now with a Democrat chosen lead do we hear the suicide horror stories from Republicans!

But Its only after the Bush Economic Crash and a Democrat is elected does the Republicans become concerned about deficit spending. Then, Trump and the Republicans are in charge, no spending bill is big enough to expend!

And now we have a Democrat in charge, any spending is "too much" and cuts to balance the budget is the Republicans mantra!

But Republicans will point out any suicide is the Democrats' fault!

 

That is weapon grade stupid.

 

Not sure I buy this. Teenagers spend every waking moment on their phones connected to the non-stop gossip party of social media and yet his parents are saying he was isolated? I wouldn't be surprised if there's another layer to this we don't know about.

 

The kid was 100% already mentally unwell.

Many teenagers actually loved lockdown, because they didn't have to do a bunch of stuff they'd previously just done because they felt like they had to. And of course .. no school! In a cheerful family home with plenty of activity, laughter, and conversation - lockdown was a joy for a lot of teens. I know more than a few who were sorry it ended.

 

And the lockdowns pushed him over the edge.

Just another kid killed by the policies that people like you support.

 

There's only so much Facebook, instagram and twitter can do though for these teens/kids. We adults can be content to lay in bed and watch soap operas, but the teens/kids are like "I wanna go out and play/date and do stuff"

 

It appears to me that you don't buy anything at all unless some talking head expert on TV tells you to. Empathy and understanding do not appear to be your strong suits.

 

control the media and you control the people. Democrats do that quite well but sadly, the Democrat voters allow it and don't challenge anything they are told

 

True enough. I see this as nothing out of the normal operational mandate of the family unit. Be there for your kids, know them even what they wont show, and guide them during interesting times be it COVID lockdowns or tide pod eating or any of the other things kids aren't always likely to handle well on their own.

 

Just found out that the reasons for the suicide was nothing to do with forced isolation.

https://people.com/health/maine-teen-dies-suicide-struggling-coronavirus-pandemic/

He chose to skip school. He chose to not see any friends. All because he had to play flag football

ps I could not open the link in the OP so do not know if this was mentioned

 

Gee, I thought the Right believed homeschooling was true way to produce exceptional schooling?

Kids running around with other kids, playing football and having sex was why kids go crazy, take drugs and commit suicide.

But, apparently, not being able go to school, play football and not being able to hook up each other is why kids commit suicide.

Life is rough for the Right, those Liberals and the MSM just corrupt the youth in every way they can!

 

Hate to break it to you this way .. but when someone is that fragile, something is always going to push them over the edge. Life in its ordinary form will do it.

We should be raising kids who are resilient, and we should be making sure their home life is full of laughter, support, companionship, and conversation. Essentials for surviving life + disasters.

 

Except this is a purely man-made disaster. The lockdowns are a disaster. Easily the biggest disaster in modern history. It will take decades for society to recover, assuming this madness even ends.

And I find it ironic that you're extoling the virtues of resiliency while quivering in fear of a virus with over a 99% survival rate. Maybe you should take your own advice?

 

Studies have shown that liberals often struggle to explain the positions of their opponents accurately. Thanks for confirming that hypothesis.

Is it really that hard to understand the concept of school CHOICE? When it comes to abortions, gay sex, and drug use, liberals seem to love the concept of choice. But when it comes to everything else in life, they just don't get it.

It's almost as if liberals lack the ability to empathize with anything that happens outside their liberal bubble.

Anyway, homeschooling is only one aspect of school choice, not the sole focus. School choice isn't about promoting one form of schooling over another, it's about giving people more options. Naturally, liberals, who are in bed with teachers unions, don't want people to have more options. They want people to be stuck in the union-dominated "public" schools, which are more like indoctrination centers than actual places of learning.

This kid committed suicide because he was locked down by liberals. That is the bottom line. Lockdowns are causing huge amounts of death and suffering. And the only people who deny this are the liberals behind the lockdowns.

 

1) The jury is still out on whether this a naturally occurring virus, or was produced in a lab.

2) What lockdowns? America never had lockdowns.

3) Duh. Do you expect disasters to be fun and comfortable, and over with in an instant?

4) Given your apparently endless terror of the disruption to life that disasters bring, the fear appears to be solely yours. I'm not afraid of masks, or lockdowns. I'm not afraid of joining the fight, you are.

5) The survival rate was never the issue .. overloaded health systems were. Your fear driven denial won't make that very real problem go away. Your refusal to join the fight won't make it go away, either .. it will just bring it on sooner and more horribly.

 

I've noticed in the last week or so Democrats trotting out a new talking point: Pretending that lockdowns don't exist.

Probably Democrats are looking at the polls which show people increasingly angry at lockdowns and the liberal politicians who imposed them on society.

Obviously, this laughable talking point will convince the partisan dummies who vote Democrat no matter what. And it will probably manage to gaslight a few weak people on the margins. But there is no way that large numbers of people are going to believe this stupid, dishonest talking point.

Most everyone has been living under a lockdown for months, imposed largely by Democrat governors and mayors acting like tyrants. Millions of Americans have had their businesses destroyed or jobs lost or happiness stolen away from them by power-mad Democrats. And they KNOW who is responsible: DEMOCRATS.

Democrats OWN the lockdowns. Lockdowns and the insidious "new normal" are a DEMOCRAT policy regime. And no amount of gaslighting by Democrat partisans and mouthpieces is going to convince anyone that they weren't locked down for the past nine months by DEMOCRATS.

Another talking point I've seen Democrats pushing is that the opponents of mask mandates, lockdowns, and antisocial distancing are somehow governed by fear. This is just another wacky Democrat attempt to project their own flaws on to their opponents. The dystopian "new normal" that Democrats created is based ENTIRELY on fear. Adherence to the "new normal" is based ENTIRELY on cowardice. I do not fear Democrats. I do not fear their wacky "new normal" cult. My position is not governed by fear, it's governed by contempt for the idiocy and cowardice of the "new normal" cultists who quiver with fear at the thought of a virus with over a 99% survival rate.