I had a meeting arranged with one of my undergraduate students for 10am last Friday. At around 9.30 I received an email from her saying that since she was “struggling with [her] mental health” she wouldn’t be able to physically come to the building. It would be “too much”. So could we please have the meeting via Zoom instead?
This kind of thing has become completely normal. Vast swathes of students have diagnoses of ADHD or the ubiquitous ‘anxiety and depression’; the rest, who don’t, still feel no compunction in disclosing their ‘struggles’ at the drop of a hat. Working around these issues is now simply a fact of life for academics. We confront them literally on a daily basis.
Debate around the mental health crisis among the young tends to bifurcate into two camps – which, unusually in our times, doesn’t tend to cleave neatly to the political Left or Right. On the one hand, there are those who think it is real and that the conditions young people grow up in (too much screen time, too little socialising, too much pressure in school, family breakdown, consumer capitalism, structural racism or sexism, worries about climate change, take your pick) are conducive to bad mental health. On the other there are those who think the issue is overblown and probably a matter of overdiagnosis (either because adults are too soft or because of financial incentives for child psychologists and doctors and ultimately ‘Big Pharma’).
To my eye, there is no doubt that young people generally have objectively worse lives on average than those of my generation (I came of age in the late 90s). I of course generalise, but: they spend way too much time on their phones and sat in front of screens; they are inadequately socialised; they don’t get outside enough; too many of them come from broken homes or single parent families; society has become much too cut-throat and wealth-obsessed; they are under huge pressure to look good and say the right things at all times; they depend too much on passive forms of entertainment and they don’t seem to have hobbies. The day-to-day experience of life, in other words, is for a lot of them just a bit shit – and who wouldn’t be depressed in those circumstances?
But on the other hand the incentives all now seem to point in the same direction. Getting a diagnosis for ‘anxiety’, for instance, is ludicrously easy, and once you have it, doors are simply opened for you (at my institution, for instance, if you suffer from this ‘condition’ – I thought it was a normal human emotion – you automatically get 25% more time when sitting an exam). And if you don’t fancy coming to campus because it’s raining or you’ve got a hangover, ‘struggling with my mental health’ is a readymade excuse that nobody can really inquire into – the 2023 equivalent of ‘my grandma died’. To what extent the crisis is real or fake is therefore difficult to answer. It’s both.
In a sense, though, the cause is irrelevant, because the fact remains: we have an entire generation now – really anybody under the age of 25 – which seems to think a) that mental health problems are common, b) that having one is a legitimate reason either to avoid doing something undesirable or to receive special treatment of some kind, and c) that it’s wrong to ‘judge’ or stigmatise anybody if he or she suffers from such a problem. And the effect of those beliefs is the same, however sincerely they are held: avoidance of responsibility; self-centredness and navel-gazing; excuse-making and shoddiness. Each year a growing number of undergraduate students on my course don’t sit their final exam in May, when they should, but during the re-sit period in August, because their mental health issues are purportedly so crippling. Does it matter whether this is because they are just pretending and want a few more months to revise, or because they are genuinely in dire mental straits? At the sharp end, the consequences are identical.
One used to be able to convince oneself that kids would grow out of this kind of thing once they entered the ‘real world’ of employment – just as one used to be able to convince oneself that they would grow out of being woke when surrounded by real adults. The truth is that the opposite is happening: society is being forced not just to accommodate but to encourage the eccentricities of the young. Hence my institution and its 25% exam extension bonus for the anxious, and every employer on LinkedIn advertising its ‘duvet days’ and ‘mental health afternoons’ and therapeutic working environments. What’s worse is that the grown adults, who have no excuse because they were raised in the good old days of the stiff upper lip, are getting in on the act. Last year, when a student at my institution unfortunately died, the other students in his various seminar groups (who barely knew him) were encouraged to apply for extensions to the submission deadlines for their coursework by their 40-something module tutor on the basis that “I’m sure you guys are struggling”. The same staff member later himself went off work for four months (at full pay, of course) with that other favourite, ‘stress’.
I don’t therefore believe that a solution can be found to this issue now; these attitudes are ingrained and almost universal among younger people (though I am aware, of course, that there are plenty of exceptions) and, as I have suggested, are even infecting the old. I’m afraid we are simply going to have to watch a vast experiment unfold – the political and cultural consequences that follow when, for the first time in human history, the majority of society describes itself as suffering from a mental health problem and deploys it as a ‘get out of jail free’ card at the drop of a hat. When, indeed (consider the absurdity of the times in which we live!), having an abnormally low mood has become normal. And when this condition is at its rifest among the professional classes – doctors, teachers, lawyers, accountants, architects, civil servants – who have graduated from university and basically run society. The only advice I can give is to hold on to your hat – because things are about to get interesting, and not in a good way.
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The ruling classes have put the NWO into place, vaccinations and uncontrolled immigration, exorbitant Green policies, are what has been decided for us
Uncontrolled migration from outside Europe and the US. Try to “uncontrollably migrate” to any other country and see how that goes. I don’t think you’ll make it past the border.
Who lives on Rents (the things most boosted by subsidised migration)?
The establishment, they absolutely despise people who work for a living.
Well, multiple members of Parliament bragged about how they get tested very often, including Boris. Considering it costs us £200 to get a test if we want to travel, I do have to wonder why no journalist ever asked the PM just who exactly is paying for all these tests…? I swear, it’s almost like journalists don’t have a spine, but that surely cannot be true, right?
What bothers me is that so-called opposition groups like Big Brother Watch are sponsored by György Schwartz, better known as the arch bastard, George Soros. He is arguably the biggest financier of mass [illegal] immigration as well as sponsoring countless political agitator groups around the world.
The simple fact this man is, himself, a driving force behind the Covid fraud while funding Big Brother Watch (his organisation is called Open Society Foundations, seen half-way down this page) should be a major cause for concern to everyone.
We’re being shafted from all sides as always.
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I wonder, will the uncontrolled migrants be required to carry vaccine passports?
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I suspect that the government does not know what it wants. It is being TOLD what it wants by a set of activist scientists who support the idea of compulsory world-wide vaccination, and the highly lucrative infrastructure which goes with this.
If these people want to encourage more people to get vaccinated there is one good way they could encourage voluntary compliance. Just arrange for more ‘Covid’ deaths. I wonder how long it will be before that thought occurs to them?
“majority of older people – for whom vaccination does offer clear benefits” and your evidence for this statement is what? What was the clear benefit to the 1400 people that have already died as a result of the “vaccines” in this country alone?
“And SARS-COV-2 will almost certainly become endemic, which means that most of us will catch it several times during our lives.” Once more what is your evidence that “most people” will catch it several times? There is strong evidence that people that contracted the original SARS have long term immunity so every reason to expect a similar situation with Cov2. It also appears you don’t believe the “vaccines” work which totally contradicts your previous statement.
Thank you for asking those fundamental questions about knee-jerk assumptions.
I (as a potentially ‘vulnerable’ old fart) am heartily sick of hearing narrative propaganda about vaccine ‘benefits’ here, when the actuality is that there is no good RCT information of benefit to the vulnerable (they were never included in what trials there were), and where observational data shows a massive upturn in (probably) ‘vulnerable’ deaths following the start of the experimental inoculation.
… and that leaves aside the wider problems of exceptional adverse reactions.
As to on-going immunity. Swine ‘Flu was the last time a similar scam scenario was tried. Who gets unduly worried about it now?
STOP CALLING IT A FUCKING U-TURN
It’s a lie.
Exactly! A u-turn is a change of mind. A lie is a change of words.
Zoe app website
“We’re working on an important update to our incidence calculation, we will be releasing the update on Wednesday 21 July 2021”
lol
multiply everything by 2?
Multiply by 4 for for the unvaccinated?
Bless, he still believes this is about ‘vaccines’ to save people.
Ha ha. But so true
Yes I expected better from Noah
Did you not hear Trudeau’s slip up from last week? When he announced Canada working out a vaccine deal with Pfizer lasting all the way into 2024, he let slip that Canada is one of the first countries to do so, implying there are many more to come
Now, you may say that he didn’t mean anything by it. But remember that these people were just at a world summit. They all got together and set their stories straight. Other countries will start announcing vaccine deals soon, including the UK.
So to answer your question: The UK won’t donate remaining vaccines to other countries because there are no remaining vaccines. They will be used in the 2022 vaccination campaign. And the 2023 one. And the 2024 one… and so on. Just one more yearly visa in your vaccine passport…
Yearly? They want to Boost their profits with booster shots more often than once per year.
What, give our poisons away?
I am constantly irritated that this site thinks that there is no agenda and that ministers are running around like headless chickens doing what scientists tell them to do. This whole vaccine roll out with compulsion behind it is PURE EVIL. These vaccines are killing people. Other vaccines are taken off the market (e.g. swine flu) when deaths were still only in double figures. The is not the Black death, it is a flu like illness with comparable mortality rates, and if it hadn’t been for the relentless media coverage and the fatuous testing we would be going about our daily lives as normal. The stench of this agenda is .is so acrid I don’t get why people don’t see it. To vaccinate the young to protect the elderly (ha ha) is also PURE EVIL.(And if anyone uses the seat belt analogy I’ll kick ’em in the teeth.) Go onto UK Column to see the real VAERS data. It is sickening. I’m in my sixties and reckon I am more in danger from the vaccine than I am from the virus. I won’t have it. They can exclude me from society, lock me up, kill me. But I am not complying with this fascist agenda. The Daily Sceptic should be sceptical about vaccines given the current data, methinks you support the agenda.
Quite so: I am starting to wonder how much financial support comes from the other side!
Feel exactly the same
I, too, am in my (early!) sixties and feel exactly as you do. They’ll have to take me kicking and screaming.
Me too. I won’t have it.
He’s said he is awaiting his second jab, so he cannot be sceptical about the jab. I wonder if all the other 5 staff have also been jabbed? I would think its likely given the tone of articles about vaccines. Will puts out some stuff which seems against the forced nature of injections, but its quite tame in terms of anti-vax.
So our ‘sceptical site’ is run by people whose actions imply they are not sceptical about vaccines.
Where exactly that leaves us anti-vaxers ‘BTL’ only time will tell.
I agree. It’s curious though, why the team here is not sceptical about the vaccines, don’t you think?
I mean, the data clearly show they are more dangerous than COVID for all but the very elderly or very comorbid. And I am not talking about the supposed efficacy of the vaccines, but just the raw death data…which we all know are under reported for the jabs and over reported for the virus.
“ if anyone uses the seat belt analogy I’ll kick ’em in the teeth”
You can borrow my boot.
I completely agree with you and given you an uptick. I absolutely feel your anger.
I think though, in fairness, if they didn’t in some way look as though they are being balanced in their reporting on vaccinations, the site would be closed down or censored very quickly indeed
UK Column seem to manage though
For months, when people ask if I’ve had the vaccine I always say that I’ve donated it to an elderly, frail woman in Uttah Pradesh.
When, not if, I’m next asked my reply will be “have you had a sexually transmitted disease recently?” since I will have as much right to ask as they do for my vaccination status.
Join the vax control group! I did. vaxcontrolgroup.com
At least it’s made me feel a bit better.
Yes, I have a nice official-looking Vax Control Group ID card now! I don’t know where this project is going. An official phase 3 control group should have been in place. But as the phases 1 and 2 control groups were unblinded by jabbing the participants, I suppose it’s par for the course.
out of interest – if we did donate our unused vaccines to another country and they killed or seriously maimed some of the people in that country injected with them would the UK then be liable?
Toxic waste facilities are scarce?
Speculation 1: If it were the case that depopulation was the agenda, then only the wealthier countries would get the jab. Poorer countries are more prone to mortality from other causes.
Speculation 2: If there were to be an intended connection between jab and hi-tech (e.g. 5g), then that would only apply to wealthier countries.
Without holding to any specific theory or hypothesis here, I am still totting-up possibilities to understand reasons behind the government’s behaviour.
Ohhhh! I think you’ve got it with point 2 there. I’ve been flummoxed by the focus on developed nations and the complete lack of focus on developing ones (which have faster growing populations).
i thought all the 5g stuff was bollocks from the get go, but with people being reportedly magnetised by the vaccines, and it exacerbated by MRI scans etc, could this be it?
I can’t believe I am writing this stuff.
The sole point of the vaccines is the vaccine passport, plus a bit of dough and establishing cheap mRNA ‘technology’ as the basis of future drugs and of further mandatory poisonings which these vaccine passports enable them to mandate, as the drug industry would otherwise be finished.
It hasn’t come up with anything useful since Epo, is squeezed by trial demands and patent laws favoring generics etc..
If they ever gave a fig about poor souls in the 3rd world, they would never have contemplated lockdowns in the first place.
The UK alone has killed about 5 million people there through its own lockdown already, almost as many as Hitler killed Jews- the Germans are already about even in that regard, the Americans have the blood of more than 30 million on their hands already (120 million as per World Bank, allocated by share of World GDP, rounded up due to Sweden and Asia not locking down). Fauci will go down in history as a bigger monster and killer than the Big Three combined.
And absolutely noone bothers, many were and still are in favour of that happening and quite a few actually enjoyed and continue to enjoy it.
Forced vaccination over here is just a bit of sadistic icing on the cake for them.
To the ruling class of the (faux) acclamation-driven gerontocracy, “prolong our own lives somewhat more” is the only thing which counts.
People still aren’t getting it! This isn’t about our health, they don’t give a damn about out health, this is about the Elites having power over the masses!
RESIST, DO NOT COMPLY!
What is truly frightening is that the “establishment view” is so far off the reservation Full Fact are even calling the vaccine safe, writing words implying it is safe even for young children, while on the very same page giving risk figures showing young children have a higher risk of dying if they take the vaccine than if the catch Covid-19. Yet they don’t feel they should point this out. What!!! Really!!! It is now not over dramatic to say a kind of mass insanity has descended on the “caution first” virtue signalling class.
This link is worthy of an article in it’s own right. These people have become an actual menace and danger to children and should be treated as the dangerous intellectual cowards they are:
https://fullfact.org/online/risk-children-death-covid/
There is indeed a massive irony in the massive overplaying of the ‘precautionary principle’ in terms of SARS and everyday hygiene (thus immense immunity deficits building up), whilst sensible precautionary measures re. vaccine approval are thrown to the winds.
So much to take issue with in this piece, but lets just start with this one, “But the vast majority of older people – for whom vaccination does offer clear benefits – are already vaccinated”
Can the writer provide any evidence to support this claim? Is the writer aware that claims to 95% efficacy are completely bogus and absolute efficacy is close to zero? Now factor in all the reported side effects and deaths, and take into account all those graphs showing how in nearly every country in the world the accelerating ‘covid’ death rate matched the rate of delivery of the injection, and the picture looks very different.
“Having offered the vaccine to every high-risk person in Britain, isn’t it time we did something for countries with less resources than our own?”
What? Like dump leaky snake oil on them for the fun of it?
Note the latest propaganda stunt (courtesty the Bollocks BC) : because Indian mortality figures are stubbornly below the world average, they must be massively inaccurate.
No mention of data crap closer to home!
I don’t think we should give them away, no, because I think the benefits are unclear. I don’t think we’d be doing anyone any favours.
“Having offered the vaccine to every high-risk person in Britain, isn’t it time we did something for countries with less resources than our own?”
In my view the answer is a resounding YES. But this is so, so political now it won’t happen.
“ Of course, young people should have the right to get vaccinated.”
No no no. Nobody has the right to demand that the taxpayer funded NHS provide them with medical treatment that they do not need! NHS treatments are divvied out based on how much they cost vs. how much benefit they’ll bring you. Or at least they used to be anyway! No one is allowed to just rock up and ask for stuff based on the fact they want it.
Flu jab is free if you’re elderly or vulnerable. If you’ve decided that you fancy it anyway then you pay! Women under the age of 25 are not allowed cervical cancer screening. Lots of people are denied expensive cancer treatments on the basis that their lives won’t be extended by enough. Health economics still exists!
Remember that last year the NHS did widen the age range for free ‘flu jabs to 51 and older – not just the ‘elderly’ now. I received the paperwork for this, quite late, and given the timing etc it didn’t make sense to me, so I ignored it. I’m guessing, but wouldn’t be surprised that they had to chuck out a lot of surplus stock, and cash down the pan – not a long shelf life for that. Autumn is a reasonable time, late winter is too late – anyway, there wasn’t much ‘flu (or at least it wasn’t diagnosed).
I wonder how much the cost of the mass vaccination rollouts (flu and covid) affect the costs for other treatments
Not to mention the cost of testing and ppe. I don’t understand the NHS funding, they had all this extra money last year and all their billions of debts written off, and now they’re saying that they don’t have enough to pay the 3% pay rise they demanded.
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We’ve injected the poison into the arms of all those at home who have been stupid enough to have rolled up their sleeves. So surely it must be time that we helped some other countries to kill their own people. Marvellous idea.
Why force our surplus sh*t on innocents abroad? Oh, hang on a sec…
Why not flush remaining “vaccines” down the toilet, closely followed by the bodies of all members of SAGE and Bozo & Co.
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Noah, doesn’t: let’s vaccinate everyone in the world regardless of whether they need or want it, whilst completely ignoring and suppressing effective early treatment protocols and, just as worrying, data on injection injuries and deaths not lead you to think something is very very wrong? Have you ever thought how a person living in a remote village in India or Africa is going to survive an acute cardiac event, or a blood clot. The under reporting of these instances is unreliable in the Europe and the USA. Imagine how little is known about the true damage in remote areas of the world.
I’ve got a suggestion what they can do with the ‘vaccines’ but I’m too polite to write it…