From CNN:
Adolescents — especially girls — who spend more time in extracurricular activities and less than two hours of screen time after school have better mental health, according to a study from the University of British Columbia and published in the journal Preventive Medicine.
Both factors were associated with higher levels of life satisfaction and optimism and lower levels of anxiety and depression, the study said. Longer screen time was particularly harmful for girls, as researchers saw a “significantly more pronounced” association between more screen time and worse mental health, the study said.
No. Fucking. Shit.
So what have we done?
We shut down the schools, canceled all the extracurricular activities, and forced people to stay and home and connect via Zoom, Facebook Live, and all other sorts of soul-killing social media.
No wonder we are facing a teen suicide pandemic.
I guarantee that when the smoke clears on this, more people under the age of 21 will have died from suicide due to lockdown anxiety and a lack of human contact than died of COVID.
And, simply to Make! It! All! Better, Mr. Biden has said he would initiate a national mask mandate, as well as a national lockdown, “if the SCIENCE! says to do so”
(uh, Mr. Biden? The voices in your head need a different name than “SCIENCE!”)
Together- alone….. aint THAT brilliant. All this bullshit cause “orange man bad!!” When are We the People gonna say enough????????
Great question. Will it be Puerto Rico and DC as new states (constitutional amendment required for DC)?
Will it be justices numbers 10, 11, 12 ,13 and 14 nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court?
Will it be Robert O’Rourke as Gun Tsar? (Whatever that may be)?
Will it be “Reconciliation Commission Hearings” ? (Robert Reich’s idea)
Or, will several of the states invite Fed Gov to FOAD?
It ended poorly circa 150 years ago, but Churchill’s statement on resistance comes to mind.
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948) Chapter 19 (Prague, Albania, and the Polish Guarantee).