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The Loss of Human Contact


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As the UK takes the first steps back to normality, and not the new-normal but the normal we knew before 2020. It is important to remember what we went through, what was done to us, the stories that were told and those that didn’t get a chance to be heard.

References:

  • https://twitter.com/TheKashmiriyat/status/1490315703467253761?s=20&t=cyJ0fkU9cZYUeJpT6kD98A
  • Independant - Coronavirus lockdown may have led to increased child suicides, new report warns -https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-uk-child-suicide-mental-health-nhs-a9617671.html
  • July 2020 - Disability Rights UK - Five disabled children die by suicide in one county in lockdown - https://www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/2020/july/five-disabled-children-die-suicide-one-county-lockdown
  • March 2021 - BBC - Covid lockdown: Children as young as eight self-harming, doctor says - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-56417014
  • March 2021 - BMJ - Mental health of children and young people during pandemic - https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n614
  • Children in the UK made Anxiety the word of 2021 -  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/18/uk-children-pick-anxiety-as-their-word-of-2021
  • September 2020 - News 4 San Antonio - 'He didn't wanna die alone,' local nurse holds onto COVID-19 patient as he dies - https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/he-didnt-wanna-die-alone-local-nurse-holds-onto-covid-19-patient-as-he-dies
  • September 2020 - ABC30 - 'It's heartbreaking dying alone': Doctors, nurses take the place of families at COVID-19 deathbeds - https://abc30.com/community-health-center-interview-nurses-covid-19-toll-doctors/6400447/
  • John Hopkins Study - A LITERATURE REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECTS OF LOCKDOWNS ON COVID-19 MORTALITY - https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
  • https://www.foxnews.com/media/johns-hopkins-university-study-lockdowns-media-blackout - “CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo completely avoid Johns Hopkins study finding COVID lockdowns ineffective”
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    Let's TalkBy Jonty Ellis