r/unitedkingdom • u/[deleted] • Sep 09 '24

Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/09/covid-lockdowns-prematurely-aged-girls-brains-more-than-boys-study-finds
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '24

People talk about lockdowns as if we were all literally locked inside our homes.

We could still go out, get some air, do some exercise etc provided we weren’t Covid positive. We could also speak to friends and family over the phone or FaceTime. I know it’s not the same, but still.

I was stressed during lockdowns but that was mostly because I was working from home for what felt like 18 hours per day. I was also worried for my grandparents and parents.

Obviously there are people in the world with more issues but to be blunt, if you needed a support network before Covid it’s likely your life wouldn’t turn out to be an easy ride in the future.

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u/-strawberryfrog- Sep 10 '24

This is sad and I feel for you, I do. I hope you are getting help to get past it and move on.

But you do realize that lockdowns were an attempt at helping people like your hospital worker parent, no? With no lockdowns the contagion rate would have caused the NHS to collapse. The pandemic already had a devastating effect on our healthcare workers, I can’t imagine what would have happened with no “lower the curve” measures and I don’t see what the alternative was supposed to be. Refuse people turning up at the hospital, tell HCW to let people die without treatment and just let it rip through the old and the immunocompromised?