The Independent: Using “mental health” as an anti-lockdown argument is unhelpful
Natasha Devon writes:
“The tactics of lockdown sceptics are manyfold, one of them is to present coronavirus restrictions as a binary choice between physical and mental health (if we lockdown mental health suffers, if we don’t, physical health does) and to appropriate the voices of those who suffer from mental illness into their arguments. As founder of the mental health media charter, I’ve done my best to fight back against this with an open letter co-signed by charity leaders, academics, campaigners and service users, which I published last month.”
