Australia: More people to die from lockdown suicide, than the actual virus <-- by a factor of 10!

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</header>The rise in the suicide rate caused by lockdowns in Australia is predicted to exceed deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus by a factor of ten, the Australian reported Thursday.
Researchers from Sydney University’s Brain and Mind Centre forecast a 50 percent rise in the national suicide rate because of the economic and social impact of government responses to the virus, which would drive deaths to as much as ten times higher than those causes by the coronavirus itself.

Already this year global deaths by suicide are significantly higher than those attributed to the coronavirus. According to the respected Worldometers running tallies, there have already been 374,225 suicides since the start of 2020, whereas the Wuhan coronavirus has claimed 251,898 lives, Johns Hopkins University reveals.
If the Australian research holds up for other nations as well, the global suicide rate could end up far outpacing the death toll from COVID-19.
The uptick in Australian suicides will be felt over a number of years, the Australian scholars suggest, and the coronavirus response could produce “a generational mental health crisis” resulting in an extra 1500 deaths each year over the next five years.
The university forecast has received backing from the Australian Medical Association, and Health Minister Greg Hunt is expected to present the results at the national cabinet next week.

Along with the sharp rise in suicides, the research also foresees substantial economic fallout from reduced productivity from the mental health effects of unemployment, school dropouts, and family crises.
According to Ian Hickie, Australia’s former mental health commissioner and the head of the Brain and Mind Centre, the annual rate of suicide could rise from 3000 to up to 4500, with youth suicides making up nearly half that figure.
“We are facing a situation where between an extra 750 and 1500 suicides may occur annually, this in addition to the 3000-plus lives that are lost to suicide already every year,” Professor Hickie said.
Deaths from mental health issues are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the long-term health impacts from the lockdowns, however, leading some observers to propose that “locking down whole populations in the hope of ‘flattening the curve’ was a catastrophic error, perhaps the worst policy mistake ever committed by Western governments during peacetime.”
For instance, national lockdowns have forced countries across the globe to close down TB treatment programs, which reportedly could lead to 6.3 million additional cases of TB and 1.4 million deaths over the next five years.
 

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This is very interesting. I don't know much about Australia suicide rates, in the US it has been around 100 per day for a while. For the past month, coronavirus deaths has been around 2,000 per day. For suicide deaths to exceed that by a factor of 10, they would reach 20,000 per day, or 600,000 in the next month. That is a horrible tragedy. For as much focus that our public health system is putting on the coronvirus, we must put even more focus on suicide prevention and the 7,000,000 potential suicide deaths in America in the next 12 months. Thank you so much, FZ, for getting everyone here on therxforum started on that.
 

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This is very interesting. I don't know much about Australia suicide rates, in the US it has been around 100 per day for a while. For the past month, coronavirus deaths has been around 2,000 per day. For suicide deaths to exceed that by a factor of 10, they would reach 20,000 per day, or 600,000 in the next month. That is a horrible tragedy. For as much focus that our public health system is putting on the coronvirus, we must put even more focus on suicide prevention and the 7,000,000 potential suicide deaths in America in the next 12 months. Thank you so much, FZ, for getting everyone here on therxforum started on that.

Won't be anywhere near 7 million. But why would you limit it to the next 12 months ? Economic ramifications of this virus will have repercussions long past 12 months. Not just talking about suicides either
 

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Won't be anywhere near 7 million. But why would you limit it to the next 12 months ? Economic ramifications of this virus will have repercussions long past 12 months. Not just talking about suicides either

It is extremely doubtful there will be negative economic ramifications at all, let alone long past the next year, for a lot of reasons:
-Any American who wants to can take personal responsibility for their economic situation.
-Americans have the freedom to do something about their economic situation.
-Trump agreed to give trillions in government handouts to anyone who doesn't want to take responsibility for their economic situation.
-Trump will continue to Make America Great Again.
-Anyone who disagrees with this cannot provide any reasons to support the idea of economic problems. All they can do is say it will happen with zero evidence.
-The only people who will experience economic problems are those who expect it to happen. It is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies. So all anyone has to do to avoid these economic ramifications you keep going on and on about is to accept their outcomes are based on how much responsibility they take for themselves.
 

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It’s certainly an interesting and important topic, one which I would agree will see a surge globally due to economic factors, increases in stress, anxiety and depression, etc. However, this is the type of media reporting that adds nothing to the discussion. It’s an agenda driven piece making outlandish assumptions, skewing numbers and attempting to drive home it’s predetermined narrative, no different than the constant shit CNN spews.

Australia has less than 100 deaths due to COVID-19 and appears to be one of the least impacted areas in the world. The 3,000+ suicide deaths referenced is a 2018 figure, which increased in 2019 and was expected to increase to 3,500-3,600 in 2020 pre-COVID19. The most important figure is how much higher is the actual 2020 suicide deaths going to be compared to what was already anticipated.

I’m not discrediting the thought process, but the author is clearly cherry picking one of the least impacted areas in the world and using those blueprints for the rest of the world, which is naive at best and idiotic at worst. Throwing in the ten times shock value factor for their readers is icing on the cake and is nothing more than faulty analysis, which includes all the suicide deaths that were already expected devoid of COVID-19. In addition, the global suicide deaths YTD, if accurate, align with what was expected, once again devoid of COVID-19, but sure add more shock value.

It’s certainly an important topic and one which will surge, especially as this madness goes on, but keeping these discussions on the level only helps everyone as we try and navigate through this. Bullshit media on the right or left only muddy the waters and hides anything of value in the discussion.
 

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rip for those that bailed . may their children be more resilient


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