Mental health aspects those who oppose mitigation efforts never seem to consider:

1. The mental health of doctors and nurses fighting to save the lives of covid patients, who have seen far too many patients die lonely, painful deaths over the past year, most of which were preve https://twitter.com/markusoff/status/1380249404284657665

2. The mental health of those who survived the virus, but who cannot function physically or intellectually at the level they could before they became ill.

3. The mental health of those who are primary breadwinners, but who have no paid time off and whose workplaces are unsafe.

4. The mental health of entire families after loved ones die of covid, compounded by the inability to be w/ them in death or gather for a proper funeral.

In the end, the virus is the cause. Choose not to contain the virus, and everyone's mental health will deteriorate further.

5. The mental health of non-covid patients whose care -- diagnostic, treatment, surgery, etc -- has been interrupted or postponed due to resources being redirected to dealing with the surge in covid patients.

A surge which, with good mitigation policies, never had to happen.

6. The mental health of non-covid patients whose care has continued, but with the added stress of being confined to hospital spaces near (clearly very ill) covid patients.

7. The mental health of children, specifically, who have lost one or both parents and/or siblings to covid.