November 24, 2020 | By Jon Miltimore | Foundation for Economic Education | Source
“Unlike Japan, the United States has yet to publish national figures on suicide. But anecdotal evidence suggests the US might be struggling with its own suicide epidemic.”
“Early in the coronavirus pandemic, scientists predicted that forced isolation would be “a perfect storm” for suicide. Evidence suggests they were right.”
“Early in the coronavirus pandemic, scientists warned that economic lockdowns could cause serious mental health repercussions.
“Secondary consequences of social distancing may increase the risk of suicide,” researchers noted in an April 10 paper published by the American Medical Association. “It is important to consider changes in a variety of economic, psycho-social, and health-associated risk factors.”
Essentially, researchers warned, forced isolation could prove to be “a perfect storm” for suicide.
Seven months later, new evidence is emerging to suggest these researchers were right.
“Far more Japanese people are dying of suicide, likely exacerbated by the economic and social repercussions of the pandemic, than of the COVID-19 disease itself,” CBS News reports. “While Japan has managed its coronavirus epidemic far better than many nations, keeping deaths below 2,000 nationwide, provisional statistics from the National Police Agency show suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, marking the fourth straight month of increase.”
For years in Japan, suicides had been on the decline. But the arrival of COVID-19 and strict regulations designed to curb transmission of the virus have changed that trend.
The 2,153 suicides reported last month are about 600 more than the previous year, CBS reports, with the largest gains coming in women, who saw an 80 percent surge in suicide.
“We need to seriously confront reality,” said Katsunobu Kato, Japan’s chief government spokesman, adding that new efforts to counsel potential victims are being made.
Unlike Japan, the United States has yet to publish national figures on suicide. But anecdotal evidence suggests the US might be struggling with its own suicide epidemic.
Prior to the arrival of the coronavirus, suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in America, claiming between 42,000 and 49,000 lives annually in recent years. Though we don’t yet know what 2020’s toll will be, surveys show more than half of Americans say they’ve suffered mentally during the pandemic, which has seen the widespread use of lockdowns and social isolation to combat the virus.
Meanwhile, some localities have reported sharp upticks in suicide. These include Dane County, Wisconsin — the second largest county in the Badger State — which saw suicides in young people nearly double so far in 2020, as well John Muir Medical Center, a health care service headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, which in May reported an “unprecedented” surge in suicide.
“We’ve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time,” Dr. Michael deBoisblanc told an ABC affiliate. “I mean we’ve seen a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.” (Some studies have shown relatively stable suicide rates, it should be pointed out.)
We don’t yet know what the final toll of suicides in the US will be, but the sad truth is the US may very well see an increase similar to that of Japan.”
Let there be no confusion as to the cause of the current economic and social depression. Contrary to official narratives, it is not c*vid-19(84) virus that is ruining lives and destroying small businesses.
It is politician’s orchestrated decisions and the corporate sponsored media that are responsible for the c*vid-19(84) plandemic, resulting in the worst economic disaster and assault on Freedom & Liberty in the history of the modern World.
C*vid doesn’t destroy lives and economies–politician’s decisions and lockdowns do.
“Through the use of force, the government has placed limitations on life, liberty, property, and it’s killing people.” Link
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“A new scientific study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University that contradicts the generally accepted narrative regarding #COVID19 was just pulled from the school’s website. An archived link to the study is here and the original video presentation is here.”
“All of this points to no evidence that COVID-19 created any excess deaths. Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers.” Link
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