during the Great Depression, which lasted years, the suicide rate increased from about 17/100000 to 21.3/100000, over the course of three years. This is an increase of about 25%
so we can extrapolate this to our current suicide rate of 129 suicides per day and see that a 25% increase would mean 161 people per day. Meanwhile covid is still averaging 1000/day. At its peak over 3000/day. 100,000 in two months.
a literally unprecedented 300% increase in suicides to 387 per day still wouldnt come close to the amount of deaths being caused by Covid.
and here were comparing this to the worst economic crisis in modern history. If you think for some reason this is comparable to the Great Depression, why is our economy so precarious that people want to push a narrator that a shutdown of a couple months literally drives people to suicide? Likewise why is our healthcare so bad That we cant address the mental health issues that would lead to it?
This is my biggest issue with conservative commentary along with cherrypicking anecdotal evidence. Its this implication that the correct course of action is never doing anything because everything was already perfect. Its always stuff like lockdowns are bad for the economy and bad for people, but never years of degradation in the workplace and social security coupled with a mistrust in science caused this issue and then made it worse, and the people in power arent doing anything to make it better even though all that information is right in front of them. Ive never seen a worse case of collective denial.