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COVID-19 pandemic’s mental health toll on young adults
According to the CDC, 75% of young adults have reported struggling with anxiety or depression during the pandemic while 25% reported serious suicidal ideation.ABC
Members of the Robbins family have gathered at the gravesite of Christian Robbins every day since the 16-year-old high school sophomore died by suicide in April. His loss has weighed heavy on the family ever since.
“He was goofy, he was funny,” said father Ted Robbins.
“He had a warrior spirit too,” added Sarah Robbins, Christian s mother.
We re not going to rank them 1-10, but here s the first round of some of, or at least, the biggest stories of 2020.
Not all of them have to do with COVID, some did, some not. Some were truly local, others were the local effect from COVID or other events. With that in mind, here we go.
NO Dust Devils Baseball.Thousands were crushed when the Northwest League, along with all of Minor League Baseball, announced June 30 that the Tri City Dust Devils would not have a season. It was due to begin a few weeks earlier, but was delayed. Then MiLB and MLB announced, no minor leagues. GESA Stadium sat empty for the first time in it s history during the season. CLICK HERE for the story.
In my 23 years as an educator, I have learned to roll with the changes. From No Child Left Behind to Common Core Standards and now distance learning, thousands of
Kids Are Being Sacrificed For The Adults Now
The common refrain during this pandemic has been “The kids are resilient! They will adapt, we have time to recover later!”
The kids are not resilient in the face of endless lockdowns, virtual school, and the stripping of friends and family and social interactions away from them. The numbers on youth suicide are reaching shocking levels. How can dead kids be “resilient,” I ask you?
In the course of world history, child sacrifice has been part of some of the most barbaric practices. We are seeing the 21st century version of child sacrifice. The mental health and physical well-being of our kids is currently being sacrificed to satisfy the fears and demands of adults. Those who have no power, authority, agency, or voice are being ignored, run over, mocked, and left out by those who are making the rules right now. The teachers’ unions are full-out resisting going back, even as Joe Biden makes tepid noise about sending
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