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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by ya_throw on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:06PM (#29865138)
>It has been one of the deadliest pandemics in history.

By percentage of global population, I beg to differ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics

It also overwhelmingly killed the very elderly, an age category which didn't even exist at the times of most of those other pandemics in the list.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by giraffe_lady on Monday January 10, 2022 @12:10PM (#29877944)
> an age category which didn't even exist at the times of most of those other pandemics in the list

They exist now though? And they died, so we must count them among the dead. Nothing else makes sense here.

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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by computerphage on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:35PM (#29865443)
There have always been 80 and 90 year olds in society.
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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by josephcsible on Sunday January 09, 2022 @04:28PM (#29867492)
Sure, "didn't even exist" was an exaggeration, but you can't deny that it was a much, much smaller age category before.
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Re:Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report... by ya_throw on Sunday January 09, 2022 @01:05PM (#29865768)
False.
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