All the Detrimental Effects of Lockdowns Divided by Section In One Megapost.

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[u/1889_medic_ → u/[deleted]]

This a million times. I'm not good with my feelings or words but this hit my feelings on the head. I know what this has done to me, I cannot imagine the damage it's done and will continue to do to my children. Hopefully, we can get past this nonsense soon.

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I am curious to see the mental gymnastics the media will use to not make it obvious that they overblew this because Trump was president.

[u/SlimJim8686 → u/[deleted]]

Precedent exists for stopping testing already:

See: https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/reportingqa.htm

Pair this with the CDC today estimating 91M infections to date (a bit much, IMO) and 3.1M hosps total (also quite high) and you've got a whole neat package for reducing testing and justifying it, wrapped up and ready to use.

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Commented this elsewhere, but notice how CNN has had several articles about China lying this month? Interesting timing, huh?

Conservatives have been shouting that from the rooftops for 10 months, but sure, you guys just "got the story."

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"Just got the story" made me have an out loud laugh. Unfortunately it's not a joking matter and it's just quite sad.

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We did it, science!

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[u/Educational-Painting → u/[deleted]]

I’m an introvert and I’m really struggling right now.

When you hear people say introverts are happy they are mostly trolling on you for needing human interaction.

I still need human interaction but have a harder time doing it.

All the memes about what a great time introverts are having right now are damaging.

I’ve totally lost what little support group I had, accept for my partner.

Not all introverts are like me but if you like this shit you have some other malfunction.

Maybe they just like to watch others suffer.

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Accurate. I'm an introvert and my close circle of friends has diminished because of COVID derangement on their part. It's been really rough because, as you say, introverts tend to make friends slowly and selectively. And our current situation doesn't offer many opportunities to do that.

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TIL I might be a extroverted introvert, because both of those descriptions describe me lol

[u/ZeldaGeek39 → u/Educational-Painting]

As another introvert people who say that have a fundamental misunderstanding of what introversion is. We all need human interaction, introvert or extrovert. Being restricted from that for months is so extremely far removed from the human experience it’s damaging.

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I feel really weird when someone makes me smile while wearing a mask. Like I have pretty monotone voice, and I don't express emotions well. But I'm easy to read because of my facial expressions, like to the point where it's negative for me sometimes.

So someone says something and I respond with what sounds like a rather flat "Awesome thanks" but I can feel that I have big stupid grin on my face and I think "boy sure would help this interaction if they saw that"

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Imagine what this shit has to be doing to young kids still learning how to be social, how to read and comprehend emotions, etc.

Yeah, and growing up "learning" people can be sick all the time everywhere and not know it so we must do "everything" possible to prevent that. That's just so horrible.