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I know you're asking a rhetorical question, but the answer to your question is: none (and in some places like Victoria, suicides were down compared to 2019). h
by quicklime 5y ago
I know you're asking a rhetorical question, but the answer to your question is: none (and in some places like Victoria, suicides were down compared to 2019).
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/health/distress-levels-up-deaths-steady-in-covid-c-3450755 https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/health/distress-levels-up-d...
- jimmy2020 5y agoU.S. drug overdose deaths rise 30% to record during pandemic https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-drug-overdose-deaths-rise-30-record-during-pandemic-2021-07-14/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-drug-overdose-deaths-ris...
- pjc50 5y agoHow does that apply to Australia?
- jimmy2020 5y agoWhy do think Australia is exception when it comes to mental health?
- pjc50 5y agoUS drug overdose deaths were such a huge outlier before COVID, that people were talking of an opiate pandemic. As usual it's America that's the exception. A statement about US drug deaths says nothing about what happened in Australia.
- quicklime 5y agoSure, but that's a different country to the one that the article is talking about. That country has a different safety net, a different strategy for managing the virus, and a different set of vaccines available to it. Australia shouldn't give up on its strategy of COVID eradication just because American drug overdoses are up.
- tomjen3 5y agoIs there a good explanation for why? It seems so unbelievable that the number hasn't gone up that I would assume an error somewhere.
- Dwelve 5y agoThe depression and suicides don't happen during the crisis but afterwards.