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How many of those suicides are from people who are broke for pandemic-related reasons, and could've been prevented had we controlled the pandemic early (i.e, wi
by wonnage 6y ago
How many of those suicides are from people who are broke for pandemic-related reasons, and could've been prevented had we controlled the pandemic early (i.e, with a strict lockdown)?
- scarby2 6y agoDevils advocate: how many of those suicides are caused directly by the restrictions and not the pandemic, how many extra would have lost their sanity due to a stricter lockdown? Truth is we're not taking much time to measure the non-covid, non economic outcomes
- wonnage 6y agoThe whole point of a strict lockdown would've been to nip the problem in the bud via drastic measures. Based on the experiences of other countries, it should've lasted about 3-4 weeks.
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI think this idea is idealistic. It's easy to say now that we should've reacted immediately. But try just getting public support for drastic lockdown measures when the virus was new enough to have about as much impact on people's daily lives as the latest hospital bombing somewhere in Afghanistan.
- winocm 6y agoI lost my sanity during this year's "lockdowns".
- read_if_gay_ 6y agoI wish you the best. Hope you get better.