Last week, the BBC reported on a meta-analysis published in The British Medical Journal that found the "mental-health crisis from [the] pandemic was minimal."
Mental-health crisis from pandemic was minimal, study suggests https://t.co/mboTLgFv0m
The article literally begins, "People's general mental health and anxiety symptoms hardly deteriorated at all during the pandemic, research suggests." Like, what?!
Furthermore, the BBC still decided to report on the study despite the fact that the "review did not look at lower-income countries, or specifically focus on children, young people and those with existing problems," which, to their credit, they did state in the story.
As you can imagine, the tweet/study did not sit right with, well, anyone who lived through the pandemic, whose realities more closely aligned with a World Health Organization report that the pandemic had triggered a "25% increase in [the] prevalence of anxiety and depression worldwide."
People began responding to the tweet with their lockdown behaviors that undermined the questionable study and better reflected what we all went through in 2020. Here are the best ones:
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my roommates and I started a glass corner where we would throw and shatter our beer bottles after we finished them but ok https://t.co/Vkd6sxsiYy
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i made dua lipa in the Sims and locked her in a burning building because her new song annoyed me https://t.co/UBBDuMJxpm
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I crocheted a roll of toilet paper… https://t.co/X0n0X7Ei6u
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I put googly-eyes on everything around the house and tried to make a zoom call between the main characters https://t.co/8sAjDgMTsy
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I did a pub crawl (had a beer in every room of my house) for my 25th birthday https://t.co/3jOwARwCje
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I literally painted Gritty as the Mona Lisa https://t.co/Ss2fGM4zFW
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I was fine personally https://t.co/4pCWOkfFc5
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I created a shrine to ned flanders https://t.co/4zchoCVaY0
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Started painting again and had a breakdown half way through n gave Billy Connolly fried eggs for eyes https://t.co/NdGz4ekd41
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my mum hired a unicorn https://t.co/N8eMr2DkCM
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I made an art museum for my hamster …!? https://t.co/nwyEEHtq3U
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This was one month in https://t.co/GH8f5sL1C6
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I mean, I made a new friend...?🤷🏻♀️ https://t.co/QSJri9xTM6
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My friends paid for a goat to come on a Zoom call we did for my birthday and I cried https://t.co/QiqiQ0Zyog
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March 30, 2020 https://t.co/rWfMc7p7g6
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Over 2 weeks I brought nearly 150 rubber ducks and at one point they had a wedding https://t.co/hG0Mcj8sg4
So basically this:
Same energy: https://t.co/lapjX7cxlb