> “The number of young people who showed up at the main University of Missouri hospital emergency room with suicidal ideation was up by 25 percent in February 2

> “The number of young people who showed up at the main University of Missouri hospital emergency room with suicidal ideation was up by 25 percent in February 2021 compared with the same month the year before. Nationwide, those numbers also seem to be elevated, according to research published in Pediatrics in March.” > Though the number of deaths by suicide among young people has decreased during the pandemic, likely due to “greater parental oversight,”... How can you use the first statistic as evidence while simultaneously writing off the lower death rate? You could just as easily make the opposite argument, saying that deaths are down due to reduced pressure on kids but ER visits are up due to higher parental oversight of the subset of kids that are still struggling. (I'm not saying that's more likely than the first interpretation; just poking holes in the logic of the argument laid out in the article.)