disdain_stain

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.

where did you get the 4,000-7,000 figure? There were 3,048 suicides in Australia in 2018[1]. Data from the Victorian coroner shows that there's been roughly the same number of suicides in the state this year up to August 27 as last year(466 this year vs. 468 last year)[2].

[1] https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/australias-health/suicide-an...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/no-spike-in-suicide-r...