[AlecSchueler]

You've misunderstood. I'm asking how you suggest we go about strengthening the family unit or what other steps you believe we could take that would place the responsibility for societal improvement on the right shoulders.

[mothballed]

In this particular case, as crazy as it sounds, I think early attempts by both the parent and school to make reasonable accommodation for in-person students with IBS to take a lot of extra bathroom breaks would have at least tilted the scales a little bit. It looks like the kid was shifted to remote school after he got IBS and some people at school weren't understanding of his situation. This put him on the path where he was staying up all night "doing remote school" but also had a nearly full-worknight amount of unfettered time with suicide-AI for months on end with no daytime obligations, sleeping in and not seeing his parents in the morning, and losing contact with peers.

Of course this is a hindsight analysis, but there's not much evidence that more contact with family and peers would make the situation worse.

I think from my prior comment it's obvious I'd like to prevent a lot of isolating policies on low-risk groups from happening again during another pandemic, so I don't think I need to go over that again.

For broader society, I suppose the concrete action item is if you see a young family or friend, we should aspire to reach out to them and see how to integrate them in something we might like to do with them.