Gallup Poll: Americans' Mental Health Ratings Hit New Low

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  1. Pollycy

    Pollycy Well-Known Member

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    The information speaks eloquently and disturbingly for itself:

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/327311/americans-mental-health-ratings-sink-new-low.aspx
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/robert...ear-low-as-pandemic-drags-on/?sh=6468597b4a91
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...ntal-health-sinks-20-year-low-poll-finds.html

    No wonder we Americans make so many irrational decisions... no wonder we have cast the votes we did in November... no wonder so many of us are hopelessly in debt... no wonder so many of us are so helplessly unstable that we think we need a "Nanny-government" to take care of us. We are slowly turning into a nation of neurotic imbeciles, morons, and idiots!

    And the truly dangerous thing is that we aren't going crazy in a VACUUM! No, we are in a much larger world with opponents and adversaries who will seek and use every opportunity to weaken and ruin us -- and as we deteriorate mentally, we make it even EASIER for them....

    [​IMG]. President-Elect of 'the Funny Farm'...?
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Both mental and physical health is at an all time low. Did you notice all the commercials for pharm products? Depression, anxiety, lower your A1C, etc? Even before Covid, the percentage of Americans healthy enough to be in the work force was dropping.

    Eventually, it will reach a tipping point and there won't be enough people working to pay the medical expenses for those too sick to work.
     
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    Just look at how our younger generation are being denied a good education due to the virus. We had already fallen behind most of the modern world and this is only going to further deteriorate the situation.
     
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    UnapologeticallyAmerican Well-Known Member

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    Our younger generation has been given sub standard education for decades now. Covid has absolutely nothing to do with it.
    https://www.businessinsider.com/us-ranks-27th-for-healthcare-and-education-2018-9
     
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    Wait.....so other nations young are going to school right now? Don't think so.
     
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    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Legalizing every drug known to man will fix this. When the bills come, Obamacare will pick up the tab.
     
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    Pollycy Well-Known Member

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    I can certainly agree that what passes for "education" in our public education systems is little more than a series of vapid, useless indoctrinations into a neo-socialistic 'new world order', which preaches that fact-based information must be filtered through socially-'correct' interpretations and 'progressive' methods of inculcation.... This alteration of public schools began almost forty years ago.

    The 'virus'? Now, it is being said that because students cannot attend classes at the schools normally, because of the pandemic, that their absorption of information and knowledge is alarming. Hmm... honestly, I wonder if that is so...!

    Hint: I never met a 'home-schooled' student who was scholastically inferior to any student who was 'educated' in a public school....

    During the pandemic, however, it is probably true that the students who must remain at home are left with little more useful than the teaching skills of their parents, who themselves were 'graduates' of public schools, and consequently received sadly inadequate educations.
     

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