> About 1 in 5 adults has a mental illness in any given year
This talks about people who may already have mental illness -
> Mental illness can begin at any age, from childhood through later adult years, but most cases begin earlier in life.
The OP is about new cases...
Take out a sketchpad, draw an exponential representing the # of COVID cases everyday, over 90 days. The area under that curve / 5 is the number of new mental illness patients added every 90 days. Now extrapolate that over the year, and add it to the 1/5 (Total population) number, and that's where it starts to sound alarming.
> About 1 in 5 adults has a mental illness in any given year
This talks about people who may already have mental illness -
> Mental illness can begin at any age, from childhood through later adult years, but most cases begin earlier in life.
The OP is about new cases...
Take out a sketchpad, draw an exponential representing the # of COVID cases everyday, over 90 days. The area under that curve / 5 is the number of new mental illness patients added every 90 days. Now extrapolate that over the year, and add it to the 1/5 (Total population) number, and that's where it starts to sound alarming.