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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 22

      Health Nerd Retweeted Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)

      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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      Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician)Verified account @jeremyfaust
      Trump: People are dying of suicide by the thousands. 😤 Us: ☝️Suicides *decreased* 16% during peak of shelter-in-place, and 9% over first 6 months of pandemic. #data https://ja.ma/3f8H2Fj  via @JAMA_current part of @JAMANetwork @tylerblack32 @hmkyale @ml_barnett
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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 22

      In a number of other places, while not associated with a decrease, they were also not associated with an increase either. In fact, best evidence suggests no link between lockdowns and an increased short-term suicide rate

      3 replies 17 retweets 237 likes
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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 22

      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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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 22

      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?

      5:55 PM - 22 May 2021
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        1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 22

          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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        2. Don Yezerski‏ @therealyez May 22
          Replying to @GidMK

          I find this hard to accept given how I felt in March, April, May, and June of 2020.

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        1. IrmaGherd (Retired Nurse Thug) ✳ 💉 💉‏ @maureenchuck1 May 22
          Replying to @GidMK

          I think it might be. They're more concerned about being right than actually preventing suicides.

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        2. Jonathan Howard‏ @JHowardBrainMD May 22
          Replying to @GidMK

          Once people had staked their identity on suicide rates rising and such, news to the contrary would not be welcome.

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. Ono no Komachi‏ @OnoNoKomachi1 May 22
          Replying to @JHowardBrainMD @GidMK

          The best explanation I’ve seen is the difficulty people experienced from lockdowns does not cause the type of depression that leads to suicide. The lockdowns = suicide privileges environmental causes over people’s internal mental state. Mental illness does not work this way.

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        1. Matt Tenan, PhD ATC‏ @TenanATC May 22
          Replying to @GidMK

          Some people *ahem Nate* will just give a hot take saying they'll wait for more data, and then not comment when "more data" corroborates previous data. Why bother being a Bayesian if you don't evaluate the posterior?

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        1. justforbiatching‏ @justtobiatch May 22
          Replying to @GidMK

          Figures I saw showed suicides overall down 5%, but increased among minorities which is a concern. But bad sign overall was calls to national mental health crisis line was up ~900%. I would not make a strong stance either way on this one. Not as clear cut as you make it out to be

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        2. Jaime Trick‏ @jaime_trick May 22
          Replying to @GidMK @YoniFreedhoff

          Can mental health be individually perceived as worse, without reaching a point of being suicidal? Perhaps everyone is just “languishing”?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK May 22
          Replying to @jaime_trick @YoniFreedhoff

          Yes. Suicide and mental health, while related, are not perfectly linked

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