By believing the stupid media over hype on Covid; by allowing stupid governments to over react by locking down; by driving the weak minded loonies into distraction and murder - no wonder a few vulnerable bonkers will lose patience and freak out. There is no other explanation for the madness that we inflicted on the feeble minded causing the dreadful madness that overcame them. Would Arthur be alive today had there been no lockdowns? I suspect he would.

I think you have brilliantly described here the process of “displacement”. I’ve found a passage from an article that I think further helps to illustrate the dynamics of displacement.
There’s a military story my dad learned in World War II. It probably dates from well before Roman times. A battle goes badly, and the commanding general chews out his top lieutenants. They, in turn, chew out their attaches, and so on down the ranks. The private first class chews out the buck private, and the buck private kicks the dog. That’s what psychologists call "displacement." One person hurts you, and you blame another. Or, more accurately, one person hurts you and you lash out at another. Placing blame comes after lashing out—to justify it, retroactively.

structureoflies.blogspot.com/2004/08/who...ts-not-anti-war.html

50 000 children have fallen off the radar of social care during lockdowns. There are concerns some will suffer a similar fate to poor Arthur.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/12/03/near...thur-labinjo-hughes/

And the "lucky" majority will now just get to continue living in violence, alcoholism or neglect.

This at the same time as we learn that aprx 740 000 cancer diagnosis have been missed in the same period for the same reason. An historic high.

I just wanted to see this stuff weighed in the balance when we locked down. But most people didn't give a shit; and still don't.