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The economic cost of isolation is massive but I also believe there is a hidden human cost - mental illness and suicide. The suicide rate is already massive, much bigger than the COVID-19 death rate. In months or years to come we will eventually see data on how isolation affected the suicide rate. It may well be that additional lives lost is greater than the lives saved. Unfortunately we won't know until it's too late
SoooourceThe economic cost of isolation is massive but I also believe there is a hidden human cost - mental illness and suicide. The suicide rate is already massive, much bigger than the COVID-19 death rate. In months or years to come we will eventually see data on how isolation affected the suicide rate. It may well be that additional lives lost is greater than the lives saved. Unfortunately we won't know until it's too late
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Suicide data 2018 – ABS (released 2019)
- In 2018, preliminary data showed a total of 3,046 deaths by suicide (age-specific suicide rate 12.2 per 100,000).
- In comparison, a total of 2017 there was a recorded 3,128 deaths (age-specific suicide rate of 12.7 per 100,000).
- In 2018, preliminary data showed an average of 8.3 deaths by suicide in Australia each day (Mindframe, 2019).
- Of all causes of death, 1.9% was attributed to suicide in 2018.
What nothing.what!!!!!
you need a source to tell you that after 1,600,000 plus extra people are unemployed, 800,000 businesses on jobkeeper (which is basically the same as the dole) that depression, divorce, bankruptcy, crime, drug use, domestic violence and suicide etc will increase .
What planet you living on!!
not earth that's for sure
You intimated that the suicide rate is much higher due to covid - wheres your source for that?![]()
Australian Bureau of Statistics Causes of Death data - Life in Mind Australia
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Causes of Death data includes the latest suicide data for Australia and provides the suicide prevention sect...lifeinmindaustralia.com.au
Here you go. Not that you care given how blase you are to suicides. Be prepared for it to swell this year.
95 people have died from COVID-19 A vast majority of those that died were elderly citizens with a heavily compromised immune system and that has been played ad nauseam. Meanwhile we have yet to hear a news item of people that have commuted suicide, not in the media zeitgeist ya see.
You intimated that the suicide rate is much higher due to covid - wheres your source for that?
i know a lot of people commit suicide - im an ex soldier whos part of a support network for suicidal ex soldiers so im about as aware as i can be on suicide. Its a bane 24/7/365
we havnt had any calls for help since this started - whether that means people are distracted by this or they are just not asking for help and are going ahead with it im not sure of.
id wait till the data is out - clearly there will be many people distressed by this - on the other hand there maybe a lot of people on newstart that find getting double the dole is like manna from heaven and has improved their lives.
too many variables.
1) day to day yeah - faced with something to do and a clear goal yeah. Facing up to themselves.. notsomuch1)As an ex soldier do you find that members of the armed forces are more mentally sturdy and it takes a lot more to rattle them than us non-soldiers?
2) I think it is probably to do with the fear of their calls not being "important" enough in these times and they err on not calling rather than calling.
3) You could say that money has alleviated their problems. However, for others, you could pay them a million dollars and they still would be miserable and need socialising. Money for some is not enough.
4) Well its a wait and see.
Just to reiterate: be prepared for a spike in suicide rates this year. Especially with the heightened cases of depression and anxiety.
Ophidian Old Boys
on the other hand there maybe a lot of people on newstart that find getting double the dole is like manna from heaven and has improved their lives.
I'm one of them. For the first time in 3 years I've been able to pay the rent, the power AND get my licence renewed without having to worry about existing on nothing except what's already in the cupboards.
Ophidian Old Boys
what!!!!!
you need a source to tell you that after 1,600,000 plus extra people are unemployed, 800,000 businesses on jobkeeper (which is basically the same as the dole) that depression, divorce, bankruptcy, crime, drug use, domestic violence and suicide etc will increase .
What planet you living on!!
not earth that's for sure
your denial is like circle work - around and around
the death rates were based on not locking down, they didn't and other countries did not as well, the disease is like any respiratory disease it comes and goes, it reaches its peak which it has done in Sweden ( stockholm) about 2 weeks ago, so where is the huge death rate in Sweden - the infection has peaked?
Its just a seasonal virus, its not the bubonic plague, it has mortality rates similar to the flu and not every flu has the same rate, it has hospital admittance rates similar to the flu, it actually has lower death and hospital rates for young people.
why the fear ?, why do you keep believing the propaganda, are you a public servant ?
Oh Les, it's like you never did Maths at school, or went to school. Classic RWNJ. Gets shown proof, asks for proof that proves he's right not you. Doesn't provide proof himself.quite triggered aren't you, get back to me when Sweden has about 80,000 deaths because using the model we locked down on that's what they should have.
Ray Hadley asked Scomo about maybe using the Swedish model and he replied if we use that we will have ten of thousands of deaths.
Well, where are Sweden's tens of thousands of deaths.
Please send when you have photos of the mass graves in Sweden preferably shots from the air.
thanks
quite triggered aren't you, get back to me when Sweden has about 80,000 deaths because using the model we locked down on that's what they should have.
Ray Hadley asked Scomo about maybe using the Swedish model and he replied if we use that we will have ten of thousands of deaths.
Well, where are Sweden's tens of thousands of deaths.
Please send when you have photos of the mass graves in Sweden preferably shots from the air.
thanks
Oh Les, it's like you never did Maths at school, or went to school. Classic RWNJ. Gets shown proof, asks for proof that proves he's right not you. Doesn't provide proof himself.
quite triggered aren't you, get back to me when Sweden has about 80,000 deaths because using the model we locked down on that's what they should have.
Ray Hadley asked Scomo about maybe using the Swedish model and he replied if we use that we will have ten of thousands of deaths.
Well, where are Sweden's tens of thousands of deaths.
Please send when you have photos of the mass graves in Sweden preferably shots from the air.
thanks