Posted on 07/02/2021 12:25:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Beth Palmer was 17 and dreaming of becoming a singer in March 2020 when the United Kingdom went into lockdown because of the coronavirus. One month later, she was dead.
"She was a wonderful, wonderful daughter. She was just funny, she lit up the room.," said Mike Palmer, Beth’s father. "She was so affectionate and loving as well. She basically had the world at her feet. She had everything, everything to live for.”
Palmer didn’t die of the coronavirus. She took her own life.
An aspiring singer and vocal student at the Access Creative College in Manchester, Palmer crumbled in isolation. Her family states that she had previously shown no signs of struggling with her mental health. However, she claimed the mandated stay-at-home order felt like centuries.
"She couldn't finish college, she couldn't go out and see her friends. She felt as though this three-month lockdown was to her 300 years,” her father said in a video that went viral last year.
Unable to finish college, see her friends, or pursue her passion, the usually vivacious and affectionate Palmer became obsessive in her fear that the lockdown would never end....
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Messaging from schools, feministas, government, MSM, social media, their single parent, GLBTQ activists, all combined, have created really messed up youths.
They’ve no idea what is true and real, who and what to believe, what they are, what they should be. They likely suffer cognitive dissonance frequently.
American progressives are a spreading cancer here, and our young girls are infected.
I noticed when I was volunteering at Cub Scout camp last week that kids aged 6 to 10 have almost zero ability to understand speech. They just stare at you blankly while you say, for example, “Drop those arrows to the ground!” over and over.
I was surprised at how bad it was, even compared to two years ago...
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Interesting.
How much of our learning is facilitated by subtle visual clues from adults? A correct answer likely elicits a smile from an adult which provides positive feedback to the child.
Now imagine children in this environment of the past 18 months where outside of home, everyone around them is literally a blank face. This has to have caused deleterious effects in learning and socializing.
Just you and a thousand venomous snakes.
Well, they’re noisy and messy and disobedient and break things and eat a lot ...
I think it’s also related to the emphasis on pictures, video, and other screen content in schools. Listening to and comprehending a person speaking to you isn’t emphasized.
I don’t think that we will ever know the totality of the huge emotional impact on children and teenagers of the lockdown.
Yes, the adults who lost jobs, businesses and relationships suffered. The
World has been destroyed to some extent.
But adults have more resources and wisdom (hopefully) to come back from this.
Without their friends and boyfriends or girlfriends, teens lose themselves and texting or facetime doesn’t cut it.
And babies learn what it means when people make different faces (smiling, laughing, angry, etc.). Toddlers and young children lose out as well. Toddlers need to learn how to play with others; young children as well, plus they lost a year of school.
The world will probably be a very different place in 20 years.
It’s really tragic.
If I lived in one of those isolated places, I sure wouldn’t wear a mask.
The stupid is everywhere. Here in NM, the lockdown on Harding County was the same as Albuquerque. Harding has 600 residents in 2200 square miles.
but its all okay because the 88 yrs NEEDED to shut down the country and destroy society and business because they needed to feel “safe”.....
Thank you for the links. Very interesting.
At least FR has intelligent people posting.
I once went to Twitter and spent an hour defending President Trump. The posts people made were incredibly ignorant.
That you can even hold their attention that long seems amazing to me.
I am, in fact, amazing.
😀
Yeah, that pretty much completes it. A trifecta.
Us older folks must remember the hopeful innocence of youth.
“Us older folks must remember the hopeful innocence of youth.”
That’s such a terrible thing to have been smashed and lost.
Hope in a good future, good job, good life.
Innocence from fornication, meanness, perversity.
So very saddening.
>> So very saddening.
Yes.
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