UNEXPECTEDLY, OF COURSE: Americans’ mental health hits 20-year low ahead of renewed lockdowns.

Replacing individual decision-making of hundreds of millions’ of peoples’ everyday lives with centralized government mandates intended to slow the spread of COVID-19 inevitably causes enormous ripple effects. Our retrospective analysis of lockdown policies—the effectiveness which is seriously disputed—must be weighed against the loss of life and human suffering they caused in their own right.

Obvious, but I would argue that it's more than the coronavirus; it's the increasing government control of the minutiae of American life in the name of safety, or health, or ... something.