This is CNN, so it's a lie on multiple levels. We should say due to Covid lockdown. The truth allows us to address costs better. Additional suicides 'due' to

This is CNN, so it's a lie on multiple levels. We should say due to Covid lockdown. The truth allows us to address costs better. Additional suicides 'due' to Covid lockdown in October was only ~600 deaths vs 2000 direct Covid deaths for the year. This years suicide count in Japan is overall the same as last year at the same time. More men are dying from Covid lockdown suicides. This month is the first month it became about women, and only this particular month. Not when you look at yearly data. You could argue when we see such a big jump in one month for women it means we need to start targeting them. This is 100% true. Sadly the reverse about men has not happened for the other months so if we are gender neutral about people dying it's be nice to target everyone, just a thought. I'd speculate Japan will foretell the USA. This will keep increasing. We are just starting to hit the economic and social downfall stage. But suicide will jump back to men, and I'd guess again forgotten. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00864/october-saw-rapid-increase-in-suicides-in-japan.html https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h00864/october-saw-rapi...