Re:No excess deaths in Sweden compared to the last ten years
by DanBC on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:56AM
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Here's some stuff from actual research orgs, and we haven't yet seen an increase in deaths by suicide.
http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=51861
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4352.full?ijkey=NDYZgh6...
Lots of caution needed about the data, and these are early data and the situation may change so we do need to pay attention to prevention, but:
> Nevertheless, a reasonably consistent picture is beginning to emerge from high income countries. Reports suggest either no rise in suicide rates (Massachusetts, USA11; Victoria, Australia13; England14) or a fall (Japan,9 Norway15) in the early months of the pandemic.
There's been tons of articles and research supporting this if you care to look. And honestly, while citations are always good, this claim is so common-sensical that the knee-jerk "Citation needed.", as though OP were suggesting that there was a teapot floating in space halfway between here and Mars, comes off as unnecessarily disrespectful.