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A third of Americans reporting anxiety and depression symptoms during the COVID pandemic

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  1. Kuromantis
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    This is a pretty decent summary of what the data of the survey this article talks about shows: Tl;dr This is an accelerationists' dream event.

    How are Americans coping with the crushing realities of the pandemic and the economic crisis forming in its wake? Not well, according to a new survey from the Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    The CDC and Census Bureau data also show some groups of people are suffering more than others. Namely: women, the young, and the less educated. Some ethnic minority groups are also reporting greater mental health strain.

    The trend is most striking among the youngest people in the CDC survey. Upward of 46 percent of people ages 18-29 are feeling these mental health strains (the highest of any group in the survey). Each successive older age group is less burdened, according to the data.

    These younger people, while not most heavily impacted by the illness, are facing extreme financial uncertainty and missed opportunities from the economic crisis that could shadow them for decades, as the Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey writes.

    This is a pretty decent summary of what the data of the survey this article talks about shows:

    The Covid-19 pandemic has a knack for exacerbating underlying problems in the United States.

    Tl;dr This is an accelerationists' dream event.

    5 votes
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    FishFingus
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    JFC, I think most people I know seem to have regular anxiety and/or depression symptoms. Increasingly, I think the black humour memes are a cry for help.

    JFC, I think most people I know seem to have regular anxiety and/or depression symptoms. Increasingly, I think the black humour memes are a cry for help.

    4 votes
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      teaearlgraycold
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      I’m glad that depression memes are less popular than they used to be. There are a lot of wholesome memes to drown them out.

      I’m glad that depression memes are less popular than they used to be. There are a lot of wholesome memes to drown them out.

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      1. FishFingus
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        I can't honestly say I've noticed that at all.

        I can't honestly say I've noticed that at all.

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    JoylessAubergine
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    A big worry i have is when the climate-aware kids and young adults realise that not even a pandemic that shut down much of the world with visible, positive results was enough to change peoples...

    A big worry i have is when the climate-aware kids and young adults realise that not even a pandemic that shut down much of the world with visible, positive results was enough to change peoples habits and the environmental death spiral we are in. I predict we'll see a massive spike in under 21 suicides later in the year or early next year when "normalcy" has returned. .

    4 votes
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      babypuncher
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      I dunno about that, it seems insane to me that people would literally kill themselves over environmental inaction.

      I dunno about that, it seems insane to me that people would literally kill themselves over environmental inaction.

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      1. Kuromantis
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        I'm not so sure. It's a little long but here goes: No environmental action to stop tens/hundreds of millions of immigrants, increase of hurricanes and other radical events -> with erosion of...

        I'm not so sure. It's a little long but here goes:

        No environmental action to stop tens/hundreds of millions of immigrants, increase of hurricanes and other radical events -> with erosion of democracy, no action to stop anything by our regimes, ever -> inability to win a civil war without guns -> inability to change anything -> eternal serfhood -> no reason to live -> "kill yourself"

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