“Bracing for grim” is all many people have been able to do for 6 months (& counting) as they live the devastation of these mitigation measures, including:

* hunger
* non-Covid disease progression
* suicide
* poverty
* domestic violence
* child abuse...

(stay with me here..1/7)

* civil unrest
* lost livelihoods
* unemployment
* deaths of despair
* interrupted childhood development
* evications/loss of shelter
* debt accrual
* economic instability
* loss of trust in gov’t/public health
* social isolation
* shuttered businesses

(2/7)

* people forced to die alone
* people unable to be w/ loved ones as they died
* no funerals
* supply chain disruptions/impaired access to staples/medications
* deterioration of mental health
* unmanageable anxiety
* somatic manifestations of stress
* delayed healthcare

(3/7)

* depressed immune systems
* loss of accommodations for the disabled
* cancelled life trajectories
* substance abuse/overdoses
* uncertainty about the future
* deteriorating physical health
* amplified social anxiety
* economically & socially destabilized communities

(4/7)

* loss of access to education
* loss of future earnings
* loss of civil liberties
* loss of dreams/hope
* suffering children

Pls add more or tell your story. You deserve to be heard, too.

(5/7)

I, for one, am eager for 2nd & 3rd order effects to be authoritatively analyzed & acknowledged.

The lack of accounting for harm is inexplicable to me.

Covid myopia isn’t justice of any kind—certainly not social—& public health has never been a single-variable equation.

(6/7)

Pretending that the moral position is to inflict all of the above on the masses w/ the goal of preventing all Covid infections serves only the few who are affected by none of them.

Bring on the report, @BallouxFrancois

Finally something that gives me hope.

>Fin<