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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Oct 10

#astrophotography

If you had told me 2 years ago that I'd be able to take pictures like this from my light-polluted Vancouver balcony, 🤯🤯.

Not even slightly visible to the naked eye in the city, this rich nebula of Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Sulfur is known as the Pelican Nebula.

far les saturated but just as clear!

(i like this better, I think!!!)

a closeup of the "pelican" - can you see the pelicans head?

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Oct 7

https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1578445555826839553

One of the easiest tricks in the book is to create a straw man and then attack it. "Showing suicide data to prove kids weren't impacted by school closures" isn't what anyone is doing.

I have a few things to say about this.

https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1578445555826839553

Data can either support or not support a claim. Suicide data doesn't support the claim of "increasing suicide rates due to lockdowns."

If the data doesn't support the claim, stop making the claim.

If you want to move on to other areas of child mental health (which is great!), then be sure to take a look at the evidence that we ARE getting, because it is varied, nuanced, and extremely hard to describe very easily.

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Oct 7

Covid created over 7.5 million orphans (loss of a parent), and over 10.5 million kids lost a primary or secondary caregiver.

But sure, "child experts," tell me how vaccinations or masking or a month or two without school is awful for kids and "impairs their development."

On top of this, 16,000 kids worldwide have died of COVID, by the most conservative estimate. 47% under ten.

To put that into perspective, an estimate of 90 countries across the world counted ~14,000 childhood suicides in one year.

16,000 kids worldwide dying is equivalent to 11 YEARS of all child suicides in the US.

So no, 0.4% of covid deaths occuring in children isn't a "small deal."

And that's before we think about illness/disability effects of this virus which has severe organ damaging properties.

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Oct 2

Suicidology Update
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

The CDC has released their preliminary data. Contrary to the moral panic, there was NO "wave" or "spike" of childhood suicides in the 2nd year of the pandemic.

Youth suicide rates simply continued their trends.

/1

For boys<20 years of age, the weekly suicide rate overlaps with some minor variance compared to the 2018 and 2019 years, except for the significant drop in suicides during the first two months of the pandemic.

/2

For girls <20 years of age, the weekly suicide rate shows:

decrease in early pandemic
(mar-aug 2020)

increase during school peaks
(fall 2020, spring 2021, fall 2021)

IE) Girls showed increases when school is in (not during summer/winter, nor first months of the pandemic)

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Sep 30

"Canada’s residential school system for Aboriginal children was an education system in name only for much of its existence. These residential schools were created for the purpose of separating Aboriginal children from their families, ..."

"... in order to minimize and weaken family ties and cultural linkages, and to indoctrinate children into a new culture—the culture of the legally dominant Euro-Christian Canadian society, led by Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald."

"The Commission heard from more than 6,000 witnesses, most of whom survived the experience of living in the schools as students. The stories of that experience are sometimes difficult to accept as something that could have happened in a country such as Canada... "

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Tyler Black, MD

@tylerblack32

Sep 29

If you call ECT "electrical torture", you are either:

Tragically misinformed (you can correct that by learning more about ECT)

Influenced by inaccurate media portrayals (it sucks, update your info and learn like above)

Or

Firmly anti-psych (crusader immune to reason)

@sanilrege

ECT is a lifesaving treatment that comes with risks and benefits, but is a powerful tool in combatting against life-threatening catatonia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.

psychscenehub.com/psychinsights/…

Thanks @sanilrege for this excellent primer

If for some reason you belong to a group of people who were not given proper consent or proper treatment, there is a carveout for you. You matter, you exist, and you are right in your rage, and I share it with you.

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