To the Lockdown Lovers (who kept working and got paid) - time to acknowledge you were wrong and caused devastating unintended though well-prognosticated consequences.
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The pandemic has exacerbated a troublesome trend. Hospital admissions and emergency room visits for suicide attempts doubled at children's hospitals from 2008 to 2015. This past summer, as the pandemic raged and social isolation limited access to school, friends and other support systems, hospitalizations at children's hospitals significantly increased. These included an increase of nearly 20% increase in suicide attempts and more than 40% in disruptive behavior disorders.
"Almost a year into the pandemic, what began as a public health emergency is turning into a mental health crisis among our nation's children and adolescents," added Dr. Lee Beers, president of the AAP, medical director of Community Health and Advocacy at Children's National Hospital and founding director of the DC Mental Health Access in Pediatrics Program. "The duration of the pandemic, isolation from friends and family, effects of parental stress and economic hardship, and loss of loved ones are all taking their toll on children's mental health. Now is the time for us to step up and invest in a broad-scale, comprehensive approach to prevention, early intervention and treatment."
Mental and Behavioral Health in Children: A Crisis Made Worse by the Pandemic
At the start of the pandemic last year, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti chose “safer at home” as the motto for his lockdown policies. If the past year has shown us anything, it’s how misguided that notion is. Lockdowns have created not just economic devastation for America’s small businesses, restaurants, museums, and zoos. They have also taken a significant toll on the mental and physical health of everyone from small children to the elderly (while doing little to contain the virus itself). To get a sense of this, compare two states that took opposite approaches: New York and Florida.
Despite the hysteria about how bad things were in Florida and the Biden administration’s recent threat to restrict travel to the state, statistics suggest that you’re better off in the Sunshine State. Currently, Florida has 224 people per 1 million in hospitals for Covid-19; New York State has 338 per million, or 50 percent more. In New York, blacks are 2.3 times more likely than whites to die of Covid; in Florida, blacks are equally as likely as whites to die. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s disastrous policies have resulted in much higher mortality rates in New York’s nursing homes than in Florida’s.
The lockdowns themselves have also been deeply destructive. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Florida saw a 4.6 percent drop in employment from December 2019 to December 2020. New York’s drop was more than twice that, at 10.4 percent. To judge by recent news coverage of businesses fleeing New York for Florida, it’s possible that a number of those jobs simply went from one state to the other.

Lockdowns’ Impact on Mental and Physical Health | City Journal
While making only a limited impact on Covid-19, lockdowns are taking a severe toll on physical and mental health.