agree on all and every 1% increase in unemployment results in thousands more committing suicide. ( medical journal Lancet). I can tell you that suicide intervention centers are getting more calls in 72 hours than we usually see in 3 months. For a concise analysis see the following excerpt below that estimates an increase from suicide and drugs of 70,000 this is from https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/13/shutdown_could_kill_more_americans_than_covid-19_142934.html
No model or guesswork is required to foresee the deadly impact. Job losses cause extreme suffering. Every 1% hike in the unemployment rate will likely produce a 3.3% increase in drug overdose deaths and a 0.99% increase in suicides according to data provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the medical journal Lancet. These are facts based on experience, not models. If unemployment hits 32%, some 77,000 Americans are likely to die from suicide and drug overdoses as a result of layoffs. Scientists call these fatalities deaths of despair.
Then add the predictable deaths from alcohol abuse caused by unemployment. Health economist Michael French from the University of Miami and a co-author found a “significant association between job loss” and binge drinking and alcoholism.
The impact of layoffs goes beyond suicide, drug overdosing and drinking. Overall, the death rate for an unemployed person is 63% higher than for someone with a job, according to findings in Social Science & Medicine.
It’s a fraud. Open your business and go back to work. If they ticket you demand a jury trial. What jury would convict on the BS they are using to destroy America.
Yea, I know the gov has deep pockets. But what do you have to loose? If you own your own business you will be out of business before too long if not already.
Screw these thugocrats that are destroying our economy.
Well, I’m sure enough head-firmly-in-the-trough career politicians and other elitist FYIGM types offering their ‘thoughts and prayers’ will just make it all go away. That, and of course, getting Orange Man Bad out of office, because Orange Man Bad!
They’re playing with fire. Lightly concerned about devastating the economy. And expecting its magical return.
Or expecting we will all climb out of our shelters, look around at a barren lunar landscape littered with destroyed businesses and masses of unemployed, and we will all say, “Ain’t it grand, Ma! The virus wind stopped blowing!”
“....No model or guesswork is required to foresee the deadly impact....”
Thank you for posting these important facts! Those of us who deal in reality understand the consequences of what is happening. We’ve been sold the biggest bottle of snake-oil that ever existed. You know what? It’s only going to get worse. Everyone knows the reason that all of us are alive today is very simple. We shut down the largest economy in the world. That saved our once great country! I’m not sure I fully blame Trump, but he has played his part in this hoax.
Only time will tell if we make it out of this debacle — and not much time, either.