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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot has changed in the last three years. Their policies need to be reviewed, because we are no longer dealing with isolated incidents anymore. I'm the PP who said it wasn't Yale's responsibility to deal with mental illness. I still believe that, but in retrospect, none of us can behave as if it's pre-COVID. It's not. These kids have been through a lot. I think more support so they don't get to the point of taking their lives should be mandatory.[/quote]

This has nothing to do with Covid.  [/quote]

There is no way to know that. By all accounts, the pandemic has greatly increased mental health problems in young adults, including those on college campuses everywhere. Do you not read?[/quote]

Actually that's not what studies have shown and [b]things have been back to normal for several years[/b] so stop using covid as an excuse for mental health issues.  Those students had mental health issues and should never have gone away to school without a therapist/psychiatrist and care plan in place.  Suicides are actually down per the actual numbers, not up.[/quote]

Several years? What are you talking about? I feel like Rip Van Winkle. Please set me straight -- when I went to bed, the pandemic hadn't even started several years ago. How many years have passed since I went to sleep?[/quote]

Everything has been back to normal except for a select few of us who are still careful.  [/quote]

COVID wasn't even an issue several years ago. How could things "be back to normal for several years"?? That makes zero sense. Several years ago COVID was a common cold.[/quote]

How are things different for you as of today?  Are you traveling?  Seeing friends and family?  Shopping in stores?  Working in an office?  Eating at restaurants indoors?[/quote]

Yes, but not for several years now. For a year. Several years ago there was no such thing as the pandemic.[/quote]

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