Thursday, April 08, 2021

Opinion: Stop harming our children, follow the medical facts

Opinion: Stop harming our children, follow the medical facts
  • The forced isolation of adolescents through COVID guidelines should be withdrawn immediately as a national policy to protect our youth from the severe epidemic of suicide that is far more dangerous to youth than is COVID.
"On March 20, 2021, some 10,000 people engaged in a London rally protesting the severe COVID lockdowns of schools, businesses, restaurants, bars, and even playgrounds. I was particularly struck by a sign carried by a woman that read “Stop Harming Our Children”.
As a busy psychiatrist who has been hearing of growing numbers of adolescent suicides from acquaintances of patients and friends, the extent of this reality was brought home by a March 25, 2021 report from Boston Children’s Hospital. 
It states that between July and October of last year there was a 47% increase, over the same time period the year before, in adolescents needing to be hospitalized for suicidal ideation and attempts...Read all.

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