>Two years into the pandemic, something shifted. That’s when I was getting inundated with people who were in crisis and on the brink of divorce.
Yet another unintended consequence of lockdowns
Yet another unintended consequence of lockdowns
The measures have hollowed out the middle class, bolstered the land-owning class, and destituted the lower class.
Anyone who owned any assets - stocks, land, crypto - has seen their net worth increase 50-200%. Meanwhile the waging class has been priced out of ever owning houses or land - first through sheer asset appreciation, then through unaffordable interest rates.
The worst part of it all is that no one even cares to seek accountability. The working class has been led to believe that fighting about gender and race and identity are way more important than the economic war being systematically waged against them.
Detestable.
Uber will happily display pride flags and happily sue the NYC government for its minimum wage laws. That should tell you something.
When it comes to corporate America, believe what they do in the courtroom, not what they do on their social media.
Tl;dr, just like with any other crisis, divorces went down, because people don't divorce in the middle of these. Domestic violence went up, because abusers got more options and victims were locked down with them. After covid crises ended, uptick of 'delayed' divorces.
If there is reasonable doubt about the effectiveness of lockdowns then they were a disaster. Mass suspension of basic human rights isn't something that should be done on the basis that it seems like a good idea in the moment.
Edit: In case this is an invitation for a debate about what exactly is "policy" and whether it was a true intervention or a true forced lockdown... I have no interest in discussing that and I regret even bringing it up. Have a nice weekend.
And you never crossed paths with them because you were living in different worlds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_local_governmen...
We locked down by checkpointing the two land roads in|out of the state and requiring anybody coming in by road | air | ship to quarentine under observation before freely moving about the state.
Truckers dropped or picked up trailer loads w/out contact.
Otherwise people largely moved about freely within the state aside from a few (very few) localised incidents of COVID transfer outside of buffer zones, in each case small areas were asked to restrict movement and mask up until no more cases appeared.
That was kept up until vaccines became available and vaccination exceeded 90%.
As a state with a strong sense of self goverance by people at large this wasn't a draconion top down unwanted imposition, it was very much an overwhelmingly popular broadly supported measure with very proportionally few dissenters.