I’m skeptical but open to changing my mind. The suicide paper was interesting, I think it makes sense that early in the pandemic suicides would decrease. I woul

I’m skeptical but open to changing my mind. The suicide paper was interesting, I think it makes sense that early in the pandemic suicides would decrease. I would be interested to see a similar analysis for 2022 and 2023 since I would expect there to be many second-order suicides (not a suicide during the lockdown but a later suicide as a result of lost social interactions, additional addictions and economic impacts). Are there any particular papers in the report that you think are evidence that lockdowns prevented health system collapse and were beneficial overall? I had a preliminary skim of it and decided to check the first relevant citation for lockdown effectiveness. It has the same problems as most of the studies I have seen: it does not include any of the second order effects. Of course virus transmission is reduced by limiting interactions but this is only one part of the story. This may be answered in some of the other references but I need to put it aside for now.