Photo-shoot this morning: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at an Axios forum on youth mental health, interviewed by Caitlin Owens, Axios health reporter.
“#PublicHealth experts were taken aback by seeing a state #SurgeonGeneral effectively tell parents they can ignore what public health considers to be best practice for containment of a measles outbreak”
“This is pretty stunning public health guidance to get from a state health commissioner in 2024. And it would be absolutely baffling to see if it wasn’t frankly so consistent with the kinds of things we’ve seen and heard from … this office over the past few years,” https://scicomm.xyz/@HelenBranswell/111975752525469367
IMO, the Surgeon General's scaremongering over kids and social media is part of an anti-encryption push by world authorities.
If the powers that be convince the public that social media harms kids, they can establish a system where internet users must identify themselves under the guise of proving they're not children.
Über die schädlichen Auswirkungen von #SocialMedia auf Kinder und Jugendliche wird viel zu wenig geforscht:
"Not enough evidence to determine whether #SocialMedia is safe enough for children & adolescents when it comes to their mental #health: [US] #SurgeonGeneral.
Advisory notes that although there are some benefits, 👉social media use presents “a profound risk of harm” for kids👈. It calls for increased research into social media’s..."
"...entire experience of the digital world. It's reminiscent of how big tobacco genetically engineered their crops to have
twice the nicotine levels. But this time they've even tricked us
into creating the lure, beckoning us into..."