COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Anyone trying to paint the mental health aspect of school closings down as unique to students, and not a part of the greater overall collective trauma we are all suffering, is simply pushing propaganda.

The American Psychological Association has produced massive amounts of materials about this being a "collective trauma event."

While obviously some populations are effected more than others, K-12 students are not in the top 3 (Healthcare workers, Elderly, and COVID death survivors) and suicide rates are up in every statistical category.


Trying to frame mental health issues of children as specific to school's closing is just denying science, or purposefully mis-representing data to justify a cognitive bias.


Supporting scholarly articles:

https://www.verywellmind.com/collective-trauma-from-covid-19-4844357https://oitecareersblog.od.nih.gov/...s-pandemic-is-a-collective-trauma-experience/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifting-the-veil-trauma/202005/what-is-collective-traumahttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32539153/https://www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/trauma-health-providers