"A year's worth of suicide attempts, in the last 4 weeks." Bay Area, California: “Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by #suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19™ virus.”

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most informed people knew knew this was going to happen, it's just a matter of if it offset the deaths from corona. And now we know it doesn't, because we know the corona death rate is 1/10th what we originally thought it was. So therefore as long as the hospitals aren't overwhelmed (when they aren't, most are half-empty because people are scared to go to the doctor) then no shutdowns should be occurring.

One thing about this crisis is that it's highlighting how much science and governance are divorced from each others.

[–]SoundEffectsFactory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"science" has been hijacked for some time. Hate to break it to ya