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Lockdown Costs, Suicide, and Pre-Existing Conditions
from #198 - I'm A Hero | The Tim Dillon Show · #198
4 min
He weighs the economic devastation and mental health costs of lockdown against real deaths in New York, mocking people who dismiss deaths by citing "pre-existing conditions" while being obese themselves.
- Tim describes how lockdown isolation with kids and spouses increased domestic violence, noting men are primarily responsible though women also participate.
- Domestic abuse is spiking during lockdown, which people blame alongside suicide and the economic collapse.
- Tim acknowledges the economy is genuinely heading toward a Great Depression but insists he's not being entirely negative.
- When people discuss lockdown costs, they bring up suicide and domestic violence as inevitable consequences of confinement.
- Tim defends initial lockdown understanding given the severity in New York, where young people were dying from COVID.
- People on Facebook dismiss COVID deaths by citing pre-existing conditions, while ignoring they themselves qualify as pre-existing conditions from obesity.
- You can criticize the lockdown without denying that real people died and ended up in body bags.