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Mental issues have longer term consequence. I wouldn't assume that a few months of lockdown will cause a suicide spike as to compare to most new diseases. Isola
by totony 6y ago
Mental issues have longer term consequence. I wouldn't assume that a few months of lockdown will cause a suicide spike as to compare to most new diseases. Isolation will affect social life which will affect mental health which will affect social life etc. E.g. I'd assume consequences to recursively culmulate even after lockdowns have ended. Which arguably would increase suicides and decrease general happiness for a time longer than the lockdowns.
Lockdowns also reduce other causes of death which may participate in that (reportedly) high correlation between excess death and covid deaths.
- phreeza 6y agoI agree that there may be longer term consequences to a lockdown, but the way I read OPs comment was that they were implying that the current excess deaths were in fact attributable to these effects. Fwiw I can also imagine long term consequences like PTSD in people from heavily affected regions like northern Italy.