<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">What happened to tough love? OK, so some people are not happy. Too damned bad. It will cost lives if we loosen a lot. There are times when we should ignore our empathy and do the right thing, and this is one of them. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:23 AM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 at 16:05, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
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> As an experimental psychologist, and not one of those silly clinical people, I think they should get serious about mental illness.<br>
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Re getting serious about mental illness,<br>
People are starting to notice that the protection measures against<br>
COVID are causing many new medical problems.<br>
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<<a href="https://summit.news/2020/10/23/sweden-refuses-to-impose-new-lockdown-measures-saying-people-have-suffered-enough/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://summit.news/2020/10/23/sweden-refuses-to-impose-new-lockdown-measures-saying-people-have-suffered-enough/</a>><br>
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Quotes:<br>
Sweden Refuses to Impose New Lockdown Measures, Saying People Have<br>
Suffered Enough<br>
Loneliness, mental health impact of lockdown balanced against COVID threat.<br>
Paul Joseph Watson Published 23 October, 2020<br>
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“The elderly, they said, have suffered enough,” writes Fraser Nelson.<br>
“They have spent months being advised to avoid public transport,<br>
shopping malls and other parts of everyday life. And the result?<br>
Loneliness. Misery. This is more than unpleasant: it quickly<br>
translates into depression, mental health issues and mortality. “We<br>
cannot only think about infection control,” said Lena Hallengren,<br>
Sweden’s health minister, “we also need to think about public health.”<br>
An important distinction: focus on Covid to the exclusion of other<br>
conditions and you risk lives.”<br>
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In the UK, hospitals have concentrated on COVID patients and cut back<br>
or stopped all other illness treatments and cancelled hospital<br>
appointments. This has led to many obvious problems and deaths.<br>
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BillK<br>
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