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Apparently suicides and deaths from starvation were also up significantly. It will indeed be interesting to see how the distribution of deaths plays out.
by claytongulick 5y ago
Apparently suicides and deaths from starvation were also up significantly.
It will indeed be interesting to see how the distribution of deaths plays out.
- msbarnett 5y ago> Apparently suicides and deaths from starvation were also up significantly Out of curiosity, do you have any sources on that? I’ve been interested in this topic after observing, locally, a number of politicians who had previously pushed hard to cut funding for mental health and who were ideologically opposed to the concept of lockdowns suddenly and vocally expressing a great deal of concern about mental health & a supposed uptick in suicides that was (they claimed) going to be worse than COVID itself. When all was said and done, though, suicide rates in my locality were significantly lower than average: https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/suicide-deaths-in-alberta-in-2020-fewer-than-what-was-recorded-last-year-1.5228242 https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/suicide-deaths-in-alberta-in-2020...
- licyeus 5y agoSuicides were down (in USA) for 2020: https://www.axios.com/suicide-decreased-in-2020-pandemmic-mental-health-26196eaf-a245-4d21-85eb-eeb864a24449.html https://www.axios.com/suicide-decreased-in-2020-pandemmic-me...
- sellyme 5y agoWhoever told you that was almost certainly lying. This was a very common claim amongst anti-lockdown protestors where I live, turns out when the yearly national suicide prevention report was published suicides had gone down significantly.
- belltaco 5y agoHow is it "apparent"? Suicides have been down https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-suicides-have-decreased-during-the-covid-19-pandemic https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-suicides-have-dec... Where are you getting your information from.