4 ms·
In Japan more people died from suicide last month than smallpox, so I guess the whole smallpox vaccine was a bust? Tbh I can’t wrap my head around why people ke
by QuadmasterXLII 6y ago
In Japan more people died from suicide last month than smallpox, so I guess the whole smallpox vaccine was a bust? Tbh I can’t wrap my head around why people keep sharing this article like it means something. Is it just math illiteracy? The question that they are clearly trying to answer is ‘is the problem worse than the cure’ but instead of measuring the change in covid deaths due to lockdown and comparing that to the change in suicides due to lockdown, they are comparing the total deaths in each category. That makes as much sense as “I’m currently 120 miles from Chicago and it’s 2:00, so dividing 120 by 2 I figure I’m going 60 mph.”
- xupybd 6y agoWell yes but it shows how bad suicide is in Japan. If you compare it to covid it shows how bad depression is in Japan not how unimportant covid is.
- QuadmasterXLII 6y agoIt is not a valid way to “show” how bad suicide is. Otherwise you could make the same comparison in New Zealand and the US and “show” that suicide is an orders of magnitude smaller problem in the US and an orders of magnitude greater problem in New Zealand.
- xupybd 6y agoHow is that not a valid comparison. That is exactly the sort of thing people use over here to show our terrible youth suicide rate. NZ is not far behind Japan it's a problem worth talking about.