Lockdowns have mostly not been associated with a large increase in suicide rates: a thread of evidence (CW: suicide, mental health) 
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It also doesn't mean that lockdowns definitely aren't causing individual suicides, but it does make it likely that if these are occurring they are being counterbalanced by suicides that didn't happen
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Also important to point out that this certainly does not exclude the pandemic generally causing more suicides. It just shows that none of the evidence to date supports the fears of a huge increase in suicide associated with lockdown that continue to be constantly given air
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9. Another datapoint to add - Saskatchewan, Canada. Only data up to the end of October, but still about 10% fewer suicides than you'd expect in 2020 overallpic.twitter.com/z84Lc9g12c
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IMO This is kind of a hard analysis to do in real time with any validity. I'll be interested to see the thorough analysis done after we're finally out of the woods. From a public policy perspective, I agree that on the one metric current evidence suggests limited effect.
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