As of May 20, with 2.43 million in America filing for an unemployment,[97] the rate was at least 20%.[98] Also, according to one meta-analysis of 42 studies involving 20 million people, the risk of death increases 63 percent when one loses their job, and that for every one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate, there are 37,000 deaths, mainly from heart attacks, but another 1,000 from suicides and another 650 from homicides.[99] All of which can mean that the lockdown measures can end up being responsible for more deaths than the Coronavirus itself, which is what a German official warns of across the globe.[100]
And as concerns just suicide, we have reports such as “Calls to suicide and help hotline in Los Angeles increase 8,000% due to coronavirus,”[102] and “Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19 virus,”[103] In addition to which is a high increase of overdose in some places during COVID. [104] Sources.