COVID-19 Is Killing People Who Did Not Get The Virus

A father’s sad story

Children may be suffering too

After looking at a video on Facebook, another video came up as they often do. It was a father speaking about his son whose death he attributed to COVID-19. The boy was just twelve years old. He killed himself right before his birthday. He did not have the coronavirus, but his life took dramatic turns because of it. The father blamed the pandemic for his son’s death.

The young boy liked playing video games. He was doing online schooling and seldom saw friends. He did not spend a lot of time outdoors. He would become angry while playing the games. Sometimes he would throw things and ruin his possessions. He had seemed well earlier in the day, but then he hanged himself. It was a traumatic experience for his younger sister who found him as well as the father and the whole family. The father said he considers it the coronavirus which caused his son to kill himself.

There have been many instances of people becoming more depressed during the pandemic. People who are isolated and seldom able to see others may be at high risk for suicide. Others have suffered from domestic abuse and substance abuse due to the changes of life which the pandemic has caused.

Public health specialists have reported on the uptick in the nation of suicides, drug overdoses, and domestic violence during the pandemic. It is not only the COVID-19 virus that is causing people to become ill and die. The social effects of the pandemic has caused all kinds of serious problems.

It has been a long year with most of it consumed with the pandemic. There have been many unusual changes and challenges to life as it once was. There is now a new normal.

Along with the pandemic came very contentious elections across the United States. Then racism became a factor with killings of Black people seemingly escalated. Racism against Asian Americans became a factor as well as they were being blamed for the coronavirus because references to China.

Hopefully, we can get back to the old normal or close to it.