Still paying your college debt or mortgage and you have to get few people(including myself) killed !!???? You are the biggest risk to public - a political threat of highest degree which is screaming for return of colonialism and even neanazism for which your owners hired you. Your sickening gesture about video ratings which your try to impose against general American population with hope of psychiatric terror and hopefully psychiatric hospitalization for those whom you will deem publish threatening to your kind a video material online deserves a Donald Trump question - how did your parents and your wife arrive to United States of America. Legally or illegally and what was their purpose of stay in United States of America !!???? A domestic and international terrorism in which you became involved against me or pursuit of American way of life !!???? I personally don't care about Donald Trump, but your ass needs to be kicked enough for you to land in the part of the world where your psychiatric ideas indeed will be welcome enough to become a part of reality rather than a malicious instigation purchased from you by your white owners. Look look, they have one you as a prime minster also in greater than Great Brittainia...I wonder Hindu why....
ME AT UNITED NATIONS TO KICK ASSES OF YOUR KIN IF NECESSARY TO GET MY VOICE HEARD YOU FILTHY SCUMBAG.
Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms
IT’S TIME FOR DECISIVE ACTION TO PROTECT OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don’t have the luxury to wait for perfect information. You assess the available facts, you use your best judgment, and you act quickly.
The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor. Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of anxiety and depression symptoms, and the average daily use in this age group, as of the summer of 2023, was 4.8 hours. Additionally, nearly half of adolescents say social media makes them feel worse about their bodies.
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It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents. A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe. Evidence from tobacco studies show that warning labels can increase awareness and change behavior. When asked if a warning from the surgeon general would prompt them to limit or monitor their children’s social media use, 76 percent of people in one recent survey of Latino parents said yes.
To be clear, a warning label would not, on its own, make social media safe for young people. The advisory I issued a year ago about social media and young people’s mental health included specific recommendations for policymakers, platforms and the public to make social media safer for kids. Such measures, which already have strong bipartisan support, remain the priority.
Legislation from Congress should shield young people from online harassment, abuse and exploitation and from exposure to extreme violence and sexual content that too often appears in algorithm-driven feeds. The measures should prevent platforms from collecting sensitive data from children and should restrict the use of features like push notifications, autoplay and infinite scroll, which prey on developing brains and contribute to excessive use.
Additionally, companies must be required to share all of their data on health effects with independent scientists and the public — currently they do not — and allow independent safety audits. While the platforms claim they are making their products safer, Americans need more than words. We need proof.
The rest of society can play a role also. Schools should ensure that classroom learning and social time are phone-free experiences. Parents, too, should create phone-free zones around bedtime, meals and social gatherings to safeguard their kids’ sleep and real-life connections — both of which have direct effects on mental health. And they should wait until after middle school to allow their kids access to social media. This is much easier said than done, which is why parents should work together with other families to establish shared rules, so no parents have to struggle alone or feel guilty when their teens say they are the only one who has to endure limits. And young people can build on teen-focused efforts like the Log Off movement and Wired Human to support one another in reforming their relationship with social media and navigating online environments safely.
Others must help, too. Public health leaders should demand healthy digital environments for young people. Doctors, nurses and other clinicians should raise the issue of social media with kids and parents and guide them toward safer practices. And the federal Kids Online Health & Safety Task Force must continue its leadership in bringing together the best minds from inside and outside government to recommend changes that will make social media safer for our children.
One of the worst things for a parent is to know your children are in danger yet be unable to do anything about it. That is how parents tell me they feel when it comes to social media — helpless and alone in the face of toxic content and hidden harms. I think about Lori, a woman from Colorado who fought back tears as she told me about her teenage daughter, who took her life after being bullied on social media. Lori had been diligent, monitoring her daughter’s accounts and phone daily, but harm still found her child.
There is no seatbelt for parents to click, no helmet to snap in place, no assurance that trusted experts have investigated and ensured that these platforms are safe for our kids. There are just parents and their children, trying to figure it out on their own, pitted against some of the best product engineers and most well-resourced companies in the world.
Parents aren’t the only ones yearning for solutions. Last fall, I gathered with students to talk about mental health and loneliness. As often happens in such gatherings, they raised the issue of social media.
After they talked about what they liked about social media — a way to stay in touch with old friends, find communities of shared identity and express themselves creatively — a young woman named Tina raised her hand. “I just don’t feel good when I use social media,” she said softly, a hint of embarrassment in her voice. Her confession opened the door for her classmates. One by one, they spoke about their experiences with social media: the endless comparison with other people that shredded their self-esteem, the feeling of being addicted and unable to set limits and the difficulty having real conversations on platforms that too often fostered outrage and bullying. There was a sadness in their voices, as if they knew what was happening to them but felt powerless to change it.
As a father of a 6- and a 7-year-old who have already asked about social media, I worry about how my wife and I will know when to let them have accounts. How will we monitor their activity, given the increasingly sophisticated techniques for concealing it? How will we know if our children are being exposed to harmful content or dangerous people? It’s no wonder that when it comes to managing social media for their kids, so many parents are feeling stress and anxiety — and even shame.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Faced with high levels of car-accident-related deaths in the mid- to late 20th century, lawmakers successfully demanded seatbelts, airbags, crash testing and a host of other measures that ultimately made cars safer. This January the F.A.A. grounded about 170 planes when a door plug came off one Boeing 737 Max 9 while the plane was in the air. And the following month, a massive recall of dairy products was conducted because of a listeria contamination that claimed two lives.
Why is it that we have failed to respond to the harms of social media when they are no less urgent or widespread than those posed by unsafe cars, planes or food? These harms are not a failure of willpower and parenting; they are the consequence of unleashing powerful technology without adequate safety measures, transparency or accountability.
The moral test of any society is how well it protects its children. Students like Tina and mothers like Lori do not want to be told that change takes time, that the issue is too complicated or that the status quo is too hard to alter. We have the expertise, resources and tools to make social media safe for our kids. Now is the time to summon the will to act. Our children’s well-being is at stake.
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PREFERENCES BE GIVEN TO NON CHINESE NON INDIAN IN US - TILL THEY TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR POLITICAL BUFFOONERY.
Alice Chen
Alice Chen | |
|---|---|
| Education | Yale University (BS) Cornell University (MD) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Harvard Kennedy School |
Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and assistant clinical professor position at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Chen was a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America.
Early life and education[edit]
Chen is from the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] She studied biology at Yale University.[2][3] When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano but she picked up several more extracurricular activities including Russian and Chinese calligraphy during the course of her undergraduate studies.[3] She lived in Morse College.[3]
Chen was a student at Yale when she first became involved with campaigning, taking part in a protest on New Haven Green to stand against land mines.[3] She moved to the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University for her medical degree, and graduated in 2005.[1]
In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Chen volunteered as a caseworker for the American Red Cross.[4] For the following six months she helped to lead the largest service center in Manhattan. Chen was an internal medicine resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.[3] Here she served as director of the UCLA residency program in Malawi.[4]
Research and career[edit]
In the leadup to the 2008 United States presidential election, Chen signed an open letter from Doctors for Obama calling for reform of the United States healthcare system.[3][5] After the election of Barack Obama, the doctors regrouped and renamed themselves Doctors for America.[6] Chen became an advocate for engaging members of the academic community in policy issues.[3]
In 2011, she became the executive of Doctors for America, and led the organisation for six years.[4][7] Doctors for America is a nonprofit which mobilizes physicians and medical students to improve the health of people in the United States.[8] In this capacity she was at the forefront of policy changes, such as the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[9] She called for mass shootings to be treated as a public health issue.[10]
In 2017, Chen was appointed a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government.[4] During her position Chen studied the epidemic of loneliness, which was thought to impact almost half of American adults, as well as the health impacts of global warming.[11][12] She studied how public health policy changed in the post-Obama administration world.[2]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chen called for people who were isolating to remember to set aside time everyday to check-in with their friends and families, and to use their time in lockdown to find ways to help others.[13][14]
In an interview with CBC News, Chen said that the social isolation "can spiral into depression or anxiety, and this can have serious ramifications on a person's physical and mental health".[13] Writing with her husband and fellow physician, Vivek Murthy, in The Atlantic, Chen argued that the lingering damage of breaking up communities would be more difficult to measure than the effect of SARS-CoV-2 on the economy.[15] She was appointed to Kishan Putta's [who?] COVID-19 advisory board, which looked to advise the council member on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.[16]
Personal life[edit]
In 2015, Chen married Vivek Murthy, M.D., Surgeon General of the United States.[17][18] They have a son and a daughter.[2]
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