So, I wasn't advocating the implication the original commenter might have been, but I think you're being pretty unreasonable in this post. > let's put in persp

So, I wasn't advocating the implication the original commenter might have been, but I think you're being pretty unreasonable in this post. > let's put in perspective that those two suicides are dwarfed by the close to two million covid19 deaths so far These aren't comparable numbers, so I don't see how it provides perspective. You're comparing the global number of deaths to the number of suicides within a tiny population. You have to use actual counterfactuals: you're currently comparing apples to oranges. You'd need to compare the number of ADDITIONAL deaths if these folks weren't confined to these two deaths by suicide or, more interestingly, the number of additional global deaths we would have seen without lockdowns (not that total!) to the the global spike in suicide, if there was one. (I didn't address your point about the employer's malfeasance because I don't feel like I have anything useful to say there. With that conceded, I am just responding to the other part of your post.)