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rinselberg
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APR 21, 12:17 PM
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"The Suicide Wave That Never Was"
| quote | | The notion that lockdowns increased the rate of death by suicide last year has become common knowledge. It’s not backed up by data. |
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Tom Bartlett for The Atlantic; April 21, 2021.
https://www.theatlantic.com...pported-data/618660/
Were (are) the Covid lockdowns and restrictions a "Faustian" bargain?
| quote | A new paper in The Lancet Psychiatry found that in 21 countries, “suicide numbers ... remained largely unchanged or declined in the early months of the pandemic,” while an analysis of national mortality data for the U.S. concluded that suicide numbers went down during the first five months of the pandemic. Jeremy Faust, an author of both of those papers and a doctor in the emergency-medicine department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston, says he’s noticed that any news of a drop in suicides, however welcome it might seem, leads to pushback. “There’s this knee-jerk reaction to say, ‘Ah, well, that doesn’t mean that everyone’s fine,’” Faust told me. Of course the pandemic has led to mental-health fallout, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that deaths by suicide went up.
As for whether a spike in suicides might be hidden in other categories, such as drug overdoses, Faust calls that idea “extremely unlikely.” Deaths by suicide or overdose undergo medical investigation, and while some misclassification is inevitable, those determinations are considered largely reliable. Black noted, likewise, that the CDC’s final mortality numbers don’t usually differ by more than a percentage point or two from its preliminary numbers, so the suicide total from 2020 will “almost certainly be a decrease when all is said and done.” |
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Was there a Covid restrictions-related crime wave?
The word "crime" does not appear anywhere in this report.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 04-21-2021).]
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williegoat
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APR 21, 02:47 PM
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| quote | | As for whether a spike in suicides might be hidden in other categories, such as drug overdoses, Faust calls that idea “extremely unlikely.” |
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That's because they were all listed as dying from Covid.
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