OPINION | COVID revealed that our youth don’t matter By Jemy Gatdula READ:
defines it as “when a large part of the society focuses its attention on the leader or series of occasions and their attention shifts on one small issue or point. Followers can be hypnotized and be led anywhere, nevertheless of data proving otherwise.
All this — the lockdown, masking, mandatory vaccination — are the complete ingredients to destroy the present and future of our youths. All for what? To protect an identified segment of our society that refuses to be identified as aged or less than healthy, that could have been reasonably protected without the disastrous costs being paid by the youth.
The effects are certainly there: Thailand is seeing a rise in suicides; Malaysia and the Philippines saw suicides increase in 2021. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “reported an alarming increase in the number of suicide attempts by adolescent girls during the pandemic. Between February and March 2021, the number of emergency department visits for presumed suicide attempts was 50.6% higher among girls aged 12-17 compared to the same period in 2019.
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