On: The teen mental illness epidemic began around 2012

[Wyoming23]

Which is why a million Americans died and tens of millions have long term neurological, lung or other organ damage from the disease.

[stormfather → Wyoming23]

Lockdowns or not, nobody could've avoided getting covid in the long term. It's just too contagious. The only way out is letting it run through the population and mutate. Flattening the curve might alleviate strain on the medical system but it also prolongs the time to benign mutations.