Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye...
by disdain_stain on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:12AM
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If that suicide prediction was made it must have been early on in the pandemic when no one really what was going to happen. If there was an increase of 4000-7000 that'd mean 2-3 times the ~3,000 suicides that occurred in Australia last year.
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Re:No new locally-acquired coronavirus cases in Australia ye...
by 0xy on Sunday November 01, 2020 @07:06PM
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Stop repeating this false claim. I never said it'd increase in a single year (strawman).
The Australian Medical Association projects 750-1,000 additional suicides for 5 years. [1] That's an increase of 3,750 - 5,000 additional suicides.
Some have projected a 50% increased suicide rate, if that happened for 5 years it'd be 7,500 additional suicides.
[1] https://ama.com.au/media/joint-statement-covid-19-impact-lik...