There is now some reasonably strong evidence that non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 ("lockdowns") were associated with decreased short-term suicides in several locations in the worldhttps://twitter.com/jeremyfaust/status/1395829954256977927 …
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One of the most bizarre things is that whenever you point out the fact that suicide rates have not generally increased during lockdowns or indeed the pandemic, people get very angry at you Personally, I think it's quite a good thing that there have been fewer suicides
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It is almost as if people would be happier had suicides risen as some were worried they could, so that their political arguments would be stronger But that can't be the case, surely?
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The other quite funny thing is that everyone takes this as an explicit argument about mental health, which it is not - suicide and mental health are linked, but not the same issue by any means
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What is short-term to you?
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Of course not...just like the argument that somehow kids have been completely damaged because they didn’t go to school
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Suicides *decreased* 16% during peak of shelter-in-place, and 9% over first 6 months of pandemic.