Has The COVID Shutdown Been Worth It? A Mental Health Worker's Perspective
I’m not one to wade into hot button issues, but I feel like I need to speak up. Barely a week goes by where I don’t hear a comment about how the COVID shutdown is doing more harm than the virus transmission problem it’s addressing. Because of my field of work, most of the comments I see are ones that are centred on the untold damage we are doing to peoples’ mental health as a result of social distancing measures. While I have virtually no authority to speak to issues of scien