Posted on 03/28/2020 3:01:37 PM PDT by USA Conservative
The link between unemployment and suicides will be a concern that has to be addressed while the majority of the population stays-in to duck the coronavirus pandemic
Even a pandemic can’t shock the media out of its blinding hostility to President Trump — witness this week’s absurd press eruption after he warned of a likely rise in suicides.
“People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies,” Trump noted at a briefing, adding that he believes the isolation many Americans face thanks to social distancing will also lead to more mental health issues.
There’s nothing incorrect — or even controversial — in those remarks. But media outlets that would normally echo any concern about higher mental-health risks proceed to be outraged.
I wonder if the mainstream media will report the fact that more people have died from suicide in one county than people have from the virus in the entire state, we are talking about Knox County in Tennessee.
As the Federalist reported Knox County, Tennessee saw nine deaths by suicide within 48 hours this week as doomsday predictions over the novel Wuhan coronavirus panic an already anxious public and leave millions unemployed and isolated.
In Tennessee, the crisis is taking its toll on those who were not physically sick but who appear to have fallen victim to the virus anyway. As of this writing, more people have died from suicide in Knox County than people have from the virus in the entire state, where there have been 6 fatalities from the disease, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.
“That number is completely shocking and makes me wonder if what we are doing now is really the best approach,” said Knoxville, Tennessee Mayor Glenn Jacobs. “We have to determine how we can respond to COVID-19 in a way that keeps our economy intact, keeps people employed and empowers them with a feeling of hope and optimism – not desperation and despair.”
While it is unclear at this point whether the recent suicides were directly linked to the epidemic of the spread virus, their timing alone is strongly indicative, if not proof that they were. According to local Knoxville news station WBIR, the county’s suicides over the span of two days this week equates to about 10 percent of last year’s total where 83 lives were lost to suicide.
The National Suicide Prevention Hotline has reportedly seen incoming calls triple.
Much of the media would rush to contradict Trump if he announced that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow. At a time of national crisis, it’s beyond pathetic.
The national suicide hotline is 1-800-273-8255. More resources are here.
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President Trump mentioned suicides several time during his call to re-start things.
Did they test them for the ‘rat virus. It has to affect them more.
Agree
The Shelter At Home is depressing and then they have us where they want us
Don’t cross Hillary and you’ll be fine.
It will be interesting to compare data year over year. I would suspect suicides, domestic violence other deaths to be up this year. Traffic fatalities should be way down, as well as homicides aside from domestic violence. Due to the social distancing, increased awareness of handwashing, closed schools and businesses, overall death from all infectious diseases may be down.
As an aside, I keep seeing people speak in disgust about Trump or others weighing economics vs lives, but governments do this all the time, even when the data is far cleaner.
One example: it is widely known that for every 5MPH increase of the traffic speed, traffic deaths are expected to go up by 8.5%. Knowing this, some governments still increase or keep speed limits higher.
An increase of suicides due to each 1% increase in unemployment is estimated to be a low of 4,000 to 40,000. With a projected unemployment rate of 30% , the annual deaths from suicide would range from 120,000 as a low to 1,200,000 and may exceed that of deaths from COVID-19.
ICU Bed days per suicide: 0
ICU Bed Days for 10 Cornoavirus patients: 200
You are missing the point.
“I think that Leftists want an economic and a psychological collapse.”
That is a given. What amazes me is that the means seems to appear just in time for an election. Just as in 2008, the crisis appears just at the right time, as if on que. It stretches the imagination to think that the leftists could organize something like this, but sometimes I wonder.
I believe that this “Pandemic” is one of the if not the largest “Con Jobs” in world history. If Trump is re-elected and has a GOP Congress there will be hell to pay for the perpetrators of this gigantic hoax. At least I hope this will happen. Enough is enough.
Dying from coronavirus is not a choice.
Suicide is a choice. It’s also murder.
Stupid to compare the two.
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
UofWA study this week projects 81K deaths due to the Wuhan through to Aug 1st.
Please go to your local ER and explain your theory to the nurses, doctors and other hospital personnel there. But bring your pajamas and a toothbrush. I'm sure they have a rubber room for you.
It is not just suicide. The week after 9/11 I remember reading that there was a big increase in heart attacks.
For those who do not read the whole article, the state is Tennessee. The county is Knox, home to Knoxville and the mighty Vols.
I clicked on the article and the guy who posted this here is the one and only person to have left a comment. Weirdos all over the place.
And more heart attack victims will die because hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus patients.
"In sections of the motorway system without speed limit it is common to be overtaken by cars or motorcycles travelling over 200 km/h (125 mph)."
I can attest to that. And they don't use their horns...they flash their lights when they tear ass past you like you are standing still.
I predicted this kind of suicide spike from the moment I first heard of wide-spread shutdowns. That isn’t a boast—it’s just a statement over how dense our “movers and shakers” are. They’re either dense, too lazy to think things through, or they’re evil. And I’m not blaming Trump for the shutdowns. For the first time, the media has truly handcuffed Trump. He’s been a “light-at-the-end-of-tunnel” force from the beginning. That’s probably the best he can do.
Please feel free to rake me over the coals for anything I’ve written above. This article hurts.
I don’t minimize this but this whole thing has been a total leftist tool from the beginning. The left are f-ing evil.
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