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Suicide rate went down 6%: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-suicides-have-decreased-during-the-covid-19-pandemic https://www.healthline.com/health-new

• logicalmonster 5y ago
  Thank you for the information. Personally I'd be really interested in some time based statistics. Seeing a weekly or monthly breakdown of suicides since the pandemic started would be interesting. I'd guess that initially suicides plummeted sharply (even depressed people might have been willing to hold out a while to see what happened with Covid) but the longer this dystopia exists, the more despair people will find themselves in and suicide rates will IMO increase. I can't imagine that bad public policy like vaccine passports in places like NYC are going to do wonders for the mental health of people who are not vaccinated. Just as another data point for my overall argument, drug overdose deaths went up 29.4% according to the CDC. https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2021-07-14-cdc-drug-overdose-deaths-294-2020 https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2021-07-14-cdc-drug-overdo... I think calculating a statistic like "net deaths" from Covid is going to be very hard. I think this data is going to be very muddled, very hard to parse out with possibly multiple explanations, and we're going to again be left with a 2-movies-on-one-screen scenario where essentially different groups perceive different realities based on the same data.