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It's not suicides: https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/16/the-pandemic-didnt-increase-suicides-that-shouldnt-be-a-surprise/ https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/16/the
by Zigurd 5y ago
It's not suicides: https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/16/the-pandemic-didnt-increase-suicides-that-shouldnt-be-a-surprise/ https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/16/the-pandemic-didnt-incre...
- lettergram 5y ago
- Zigurd 5y agoActually, you did not wait.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- cortesoft 5y agoSo you say you will wait for the full report, because preliminary reports are often inaccurate, but then post a different preliminary report?
- Kranar 5y agoSo preliminary reports are inaccurate when they disagree with your viewpoint, but you had no problem claiming that actual suicides went up by 50% because over the course of 4 months, a preliminary report showed that suspected suicide attempts among girls aged 12 to 17 increased by 50%...
- civilized 5y agoI've never seen such extreme bias and extreme confidence in one place on HN.
- civilized 5y agoYou seem to be citing reports vaguely related to the possibility of increased suicides as "50% increase in suicide" while downplaying reports suggesting the opposite as unreliable. Is this extreme bias intentional or something you stand by?
- Animats 5y agoSuicide attempts by teenage girls are up. Successful suicides are not.[1] Actual suicide rate is about 5.5 per 100,000 population per year. US COVID deaths are around 250 per 100,000 population per year. Overall US suicide rate is about 16 per 100,000 population per year. [1] https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-06-11/big-rise-in-suicide-attempts-by-us-teen-girls-during-pandemic https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-06-11/...