2022-06-02
50 分钟When the world went into lockdown, experts predicted a rise in intimate-partner assaults. What actually happened was more complicated.
You remember the pandemic shutdown, don't you?
At first they called it sheltering in place.
That was an interesting phrase.
It evoked a cozy snow day mixed with some cold war duck and cover.
It was later on they took to calling it a shutdown, even a lockdown, whatever name you prefer.
This extraordinary event produced a massive spike in certain behaviors.
We all learned to conduct our business on Zoom.
Everyone in Brooklyn learned to bake sourdough bread.
There were runs on jigsaw puzzles and peloton bikes.
But there were darker sides, too, of all this staying at home as many.
People stay home to stay safe, that can be the worst place to be for victims of domestic violence.
Organizations aiming to prevent violence say this is a particularly scary time for victims who may be forced to stay home with their abusers.
Domestic violence surges during Covid-19 pandemic that was an NBC News headline in May of 2020, and you could find similar headlines pretty much everywhere.
And there were other dark headlines, even aside from the pandemic itself.
We were told that suicides would spike and that birth rates would plummet.
All these predictions had a certain logic around them.
The pandemic was a sudden, unprecedented tragedy, and of course it would produce additional tragedies.
But how accurate did these predictions turn out?
It's a bit of a false narrative.
Today on freakonomics radio, the difference between some of the COVID headlines and the.