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Re:Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinfo... by nostrebored on Saturday February 06, 2021 @07:07AM (#26046002)
Saving is an interesting viewpoint given

1. Excess deaths are high after lockdown measures

2. These deaths are no longer explained by covid 19 death counts

I know tons of people who have relapsed, regressed, and are just generally unwell at this point. .3% of my Facebook friends have made a suicide attempt since lockdowns began.

The longer this goes on, the more dramatic these incidents are going to become.

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Re:Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinfo... by nenadst on Saturday February 06, 2021 @08:05AM (#26046243)
according to Tyler Black (1) who compiled all official numbers he could find there is no evidence of an increase in suicides for the US

https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1357765466601775106

1) MD, Suicidologist, emergency psychiatrist and pharmacologist

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Re:Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinfo... by iso1210 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @11:17AM (#26047507)
Similar in the UK, although with a caveat that in the UK at least it can take a long time to register suicdes. Even in normal times only 50% of suicides are registered in the year they happen, and with covid there's a backlog. I suspect we won't know the real level of suicide in 2020 until 2022.

That said, the data that is available doesn't point to an increase outside of the historical increase (suicides in the UK have been increasing for a long time)

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Re:Cambridge Analytica psychologist advising Covid19 disinfo... by DanBC on Sunday February 07, 2021 @06:01PM (#26059041)
The data that's been released in the UK was using a newer rapid method, looking at death before coroners issue a conclusion. NCISH are calling this real time monitoring data. Some local areas sometimes call this data "suspected self inflicted deaths".

Suicides in the UK have not been increasing for a long time. They increased this year for the first time since 2007. There are a few reasons for this, but part of it is a change in the standard of proof used by coroner's after the Maughan case. Coroner's used to have to use "beyond all reasonable doubt", and now have to use "balance of probabilities" for a conclusion of suicide.

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