{"id":1433735,"date":"2022-04-12T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433735"},"modified":"2022-04-12T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:29:41","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-horror-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-19-lockdown-horror-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Lockdown Horror Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcovid-19-lockdown-horror-stories%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/COVID-19-lockdown-horror-stories.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The legacy media presented COVID-19 as the cruelest of all killers, but two years later we may begin to look back and see that government lockdowns and other measures designed to fight the novel coronavirus caused untold damage. Some people, no longer content to suffer in silence, have shared their stories of the pain, grief, and even additional deaths triggered by government anti-COVID policies. While the world will never know the full extent of the harms inflicted by overly restrictive government <em>diktats<\/em>, we can begin to appreciate some of the most painful vignettes people have shared about their life under lockdown \u2014 and vow they will never happen again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Families denied the chance to visit dying loved ones or attend their funerals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Public health orders separated even the closest loved ones, including in their final days \u2014 depriving family members of the chance to kiss their parents, hold their hand, or whisper one last \u201cI love you\u201d at their death bed. The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2020\/12\/31\/mothers-memorial-possible-covid-superspreading-event\/\">reports<\/a> one such instance:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Heather, waging her own battle with covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, said goodbye to her younger sister on a live stream, tears running down her face as she watched doctors unplug the machine that had helped her sister breathe. Heidi, in a hospital room just down the road, was suddenly gone. Heather longed to rush to her, to hug her and touch her one last time, but she couldn\u2019t. The feed went dark, and she sat with her head in her hands, crying.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The pain deepens when mourners found themselves unable to say goodbye to their loved ones during their funeral services. \u201cYou should be there at the end, and I wasn\u2019t. I felt ashamed in case other people were judging me. This is what was in my head \u2013 guilt and shame,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2020\/apr\/14\/its-grief-upon-grief-the-harsh-reality-of-funerals-in-lockdown\">said<\/a> Michael Cooper, who was unable to attend his 87-year-old mother\u2019s funeral in person, thanks to the UK\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions. \u201cThe ceremony was impeccable, except there was no one there who should have been there. I felt my mother was alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government-enforced harvest of loneliness overlooked no socioeconomic class. Juren Klopp, who manages the Premier League\u2019s Liverpool soccer (\u201cfootball\u201d) franchise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11669\/12214247\/jurgen-klopp-unable-to-attend-his-mothers-funeral-in-germany-due-to-covid-19-travel-restrictions\">could not attend<\/a> his 81-year-old mother\u2019s funeral last February, because Germany had restricted travel from the UK over the coronavirus. \u201cShe meant everything to me,\u201d\u00a0the grief-stricken star told a German newspaper. \u201cAs a devout Christian, I know she\u2019s now in a better place. The fact that I can\u2019t be there at the funeral is because of these awful times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/prince-george-princess-charlotte-prince-philip-memorial-service-rcna21960\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a> and the royal family had to postpone part of its funeral ceremonies for Prince Philip, who died last April at age 99, for nearly a year, because the government forbade churches from singing hymns (when it deigned to let the churches to open at all).<\/p>\n<p>For all mourners, the emotional wallop of being unable to attend a loved one\u2019s funeral does not end when the funeral video stream shuts down. \u201cIt\u2019s not a lack of emotion at all, but a swelling tide of it, unchecked by the reassurance, the scant but real comfort, that can and does often accompany the rituals we are usually able to participate in when a loved one dies. These rituals can still leave us feeling incomplete, but they can also act as signposts, guiding us from one phase of mourning to another,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5912884\/grief-pandemic\/\">wrote<\/a> Nicole Chung, who lost her mother in 2020. \u201cWhen my father died, being at his funeral, seeing his casket lowered into the ground, crying with my mother were all things that helped me to acknowledge and feel the loss, to begin to process and live with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Too many people felt this double grief during COVID\u2019s never-ending winter \u2014 particularly when the loss did not involve an elderly relative. Last May, when 8-year-old Cooper Onyett drowned at school camp, his mother petitioned for an exemption to strict limits imposed by Australia\u2019s southeastern state of Victoria, which decreed only 10 people may attend a funeral. His mother, Skye Meinen, asked that his classmates be able to attend the service while maintaining social distance, outdoors. When the state denied her request, Meinen was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-05-28\/family-of-boy-who-died-at-camp-denied-exemption\/100174218\">quite disturbed and distressed<\/a>,\u201d and all of his schoolmates were \u201csad and confused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, not a single member of one British family could attend their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-london-52150141\">13-year-old son\u2019s funeral<\/a> in 2020, thanks to COVID restrictions. After Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab died in London of a cardiac arrest, his family developed mild symptoms of the virus and had to quarantine. \u201cIt\u2019s extremely upsetting for everyone involved,\u201d said the celebrant at the teen\u2019s outdoor ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Physical abuse, substance abuse, mental health issues, and suicide<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stress of COVID-19 \u2014 the social isolation, the job loss, the tedium \u2014 pushed an already drug-riddled nation to a breaking point concerning substance abuse. \u201cThe disruption to daily life due to the COVID-19 pandemic has hit those with substance use disorder hard,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/drug-overdose-deaths-at-record-high-in-2020\">admitted<\/a> then-CDC Director Robert Redfield, M.D.<\/p>\n<p>Often, the simmering tensions caused by COVID-19 caused children to inflict self-harm \u2014 or be harmed by others. A CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchhstp\/newsroom\/2022\/2021-ABES-findings-press-release.html\">report<\/a> released on March 31 says that \u201cin 2021, more than a third (37%) of high school students reported they experienced poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 44% reported they persistently felt sad or hopeless during the past year.\u201d\u00a0The report adds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>More than half (55%) reported they experienced emotional abuse by a parent or other adult in the home, including swearing at, insulting, or putting down the student.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>11% experienced physical abuse by a parent or other adult in the home, including hitting, beating, kicking, or physically hurting the student.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>More than a quarter (29%) reported a parent or other adult in their home lost a job.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Often, young people snapped under the pressure. William (\u201cJack\u201d) Green of Huntington Beach, California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/03\/29\/huntington-beach-family-blames-coronavirus-pandemic-after-son-19-killed-himself\">committed suicide<\/a> in September 2020, in the middle of his freshman year at the University of California at Irvine. The lifelong athlete found himself cut off from social life, competition, and exercise. \u201cHis rapid decline in mental health was caused by many factors, central to which was the COVID-19 quarantine,\u201d read his <a href=\"http:\/\/southtahoenow.com\/story\/09\/14\/2020\/jack-green-2001-2020\">obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some suicides stem from another side effect of COVID-19: Guilt over the possibility that normal social interaction would inadvertently cause someone else\u2019s death. Last December 28, 17-year-old Anthony Reyes Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/son-dies-of-suicide-after-fathers-death-from-covid-19\/\">took his own life<\/a> after he became convinced he bore responsibility for his father\u2019s fatal COVID infection after the family attended a school event together. \u201cHe felt guilty. He felt like he was the one who got us sick,\u201d\u00a0his mother, Stephanie Reyes, told People magazine. \u201cHe felt like he was the reason why his dad was gone.\u201d His father\u2019s loss may have built upon the emotional problems Anthony Jr. suffered due to the COVID-19 lockdowns. \u201cThe whole coronavirus affected me in many ways, and the way the pandemic affected me the most was through my mental state,\u201d\u00a0he wrote in August 2020. \u201cWith everything being closed, it was becoming increasingly harder to stay home with my depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, not all suicide attempts succeeded. In the United States, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-happened-after-sweden-took-a-hands-off-approach-to-covid-19\">attempted suicides<\/a> among teenage girls\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/06\/11\/suicide-attempts-among-young-girls-surge-by-more-than-50percent-during-pandemic-cdc-says-.html\">rose 51%<\/a>\u00a0during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>We will likely never know the damages inflicted by the COVID-19 lockdowns \u2014 in part, because the fight against COVID gave too many people a sense of purpose and accomplishment. They did not merely go to work; they were <em>heroes<\/em>. They did not simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/what-does-the-science-actually-say-about-face-masks-for-children\">wrap their faces with nearly useless cloth<\/a>; they <em>stopped the spread<\/em>! In addition to the trauma caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the government\u2019s frequently flawed response to it, some Americans may be traumatized to learn the futility and harm of the cause they so ardently, so innocently supported. But the time has come, for those who are able to, to look Anthony Reyes Jr., Jack Green, Skye Meinen, Michael Cooper, and a million other nameless victims squarely in their eyes, if we can wipe the tears out of our own.<\/p>\n<p><em>The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24\/7 at 1-800-273-8255.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legacy media presented COVID-19 as the cruelest of all killers, but two years later we may begin to look back and see that government lockdowns and other measures designed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":1894192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}