Posted on 11/30/2020 11:30:47 AM PST by daniel1212
Federal surveys show 40 percent of Americans are now grappling with at least one mental health or drug-related problem. But young adults have been hit harder than any other age group, with 75 percent struggling...
In Oregon’s Columbia County, the number of suicides by summer had already surpassed last year’s total. DuPage County [Chicago suburb] has reported a 23 percent rise compared with last year. And in the city itself, the number of suicides among African Americans has far surpassed the total for 2019...
Studies have established strong correlations between suicide and financial pressures..
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
See response to Does COVID-19 truly warrant a nationwide shutdown? with over 130 footnotes regarding the Covid-19 shutdown.
The above from WaPO are in addition to reports such as “Calls to suicide and help hotline in Los Angeles increase 8,000% due to coronavirus,”[124] 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,”[125] In addition to which are greatly increased drug overdoses and deaths during COVID.[126] [127]As well as well as significant rise in divorces. [128]
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.[122]
See also this thread: The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic: A probability-based, nationally representative study of mental health in the U.S. ["mental health crisis of unprecedented scope and scale"]
* Adults 65 and older account for 16% of the US population but 80% of COVID-19 deaths in the US. [https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/press-release/8-in-10-people-who-have-died-of-covid-19-were-age-65-or-older-but-the-share-varies-by-state/]
• For reported deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 (94%), on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities]
• According to the CDC "best estimates" in COVID-19 Planning Scenario, updated Sept. 10 [https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html], the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) is 0.02 percent for 20-to-49-year-olds and 0.5 percent for 50-to-69-year-olds. The estimated IFR for people in their 70s is 11 times the rate for 50-to-69-year-olds, 270 times the rate for 20-to-49-year-olds, and 1,800 times the rate for people younger than 20. In the latter two groups, the estimated IFR is lower than the overall IFR for the seasonal flu. [https://reason.com/2020/09/29/the-latest-cdc-estimates-of-covid-19s-infection-fatality-rate-vary-dramatically-with-age/]
• About 40% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html Updated September 16, 2020] with 66% up in MA and 70% in CT [https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investigations/spotlight/2020/09/last-words/part2-forgotten-elderly/index.html?p1=AMPArticle_Recirculation]
• While an estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season [https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm] only 94 children (under 18) out of over 210,000 deaths have died due to COVID-19 (reported 10–02) [https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics] and less than 10 percent of domestic COVID-19 cases are among children under 18 (reported 9–11, [https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200910/Over-half-a-million-reported-child-COVID-19-cases-in-the-United-States.aspx] while the vast majority of children with severe COVID tend to have other risk factors. [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/coronavirus-infection-spread-in-children-cvd/]
• Pediatrician says 80% of kids likely have coronavirus, but they're so asymptomatic you'd never know - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-children-pediatrician-80-percent-asymptomatic/
• 42% of Americans are obese or overweight, and along with hypertension - two conditions the Covid constraint foster - these are to the two most lethal comorbidities. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13128; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-obesity-higher-risk.html]
• Testing data compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada showed that to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus using the PCR test, which is the most widely used diagnostic test for the coronavirus. And which which means they are not likely to be infectious and thus need not be quarantined (the greater the viral load, the more likely an infected person is to be contagious).[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html]
• A new, preliminary study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle says the novel coronavirus is most likely transferred through “super-spreader” events, and that 80% of those who test positive for the virus never infect anyone else. - https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fred-hutchinson-cancer-research-center-study-80-percent-coronavirus-superspreader/281-eb53a16a-632d-4d16-ae31-8cfdce84e570
• 85% of COVID-19 cases in July were people who said they often or always wear masks. [https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf]
• Eighty percent of communicable diseases are transferred by touch, so practicing hand hygiene would understandably be important to help fight disease. [https://www.trinityhealth.org/the-keys-to-fighting-covid-19]
• Also, some Canadian data indicates that those with type A or AB blood are at a higher risk of greater disease severity than those with type O or B blood. [https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/blood-type-covid-19-risk]
• Operation Warp Speed — the government’s agreement to subsidize vaccine companies’ clinical trials and manufacturing costs — appears to have been working with remarkable efficiency...Moncef Slaoui, Operation Warp Speed’s chief scientific adviser and a former pharmaceutical executive who has overseen the development of 14 vaccines, has said repeatedly that he expects some of the candidates that he picked to have 75 to 90 percent efficacy and at least two to win approval by early January. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/health/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-optimism.html?referringSource=articleShare]
• Meanwhile, numerous new studies suggest that Covid-19 infection in recovered persons results in a lasting protective immune response [https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/one-kind-of-immunity-to-the-coronavirus-lasts-at-least-six-months-study-finds/ar-BB1aEWU6?ocid=msedgntp] [not likely full immunity, but helping recovery], even in people who developed only mild symptoms of Covid-19. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/health/coronavirus-immunity-antibodies.html]
• While obesity and hypertension are the two leading comorbidities [https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85855] (both of which the shutdown fosters) and Vitamin D deficiency is common among the infected, and households and prolonged breathing in close quarters are primary means of transmission, yet the importance of losing weight, and exercise and being outdoors is not emphasized, not is even frequent ventilation of indoors.
Darwin at work.
An FR thread from this weekend stated that Japan is not the only nation to experience an increase in suicides at a level more than COVID 19 deaths.
Early in the “pandemic” someone did an analysis to find that there was an increase in suicides by county in Texas. The increased level of suicides was observed in counties which had no COVID 19 deaths.
Also, early in the year, my wife and I had sequestered at a family cabin in Payson, AZ. On one of our forays into town for supplies, we talked to a shopkeeper about the local COVID 19 situation. She knew of no COVID 19 cases, but she had read about a 14 year old boy who committed suicide, apparently due to the stress of the situation.
If "he" wanted to save his son, "he" shouldn't have voted Democrat.
Famotidine + Zicam + vitamin C + vitamin D + SLEEP
Will improve your chances.
So the survey to determine 1 in 4 was based on what sample? I once again call BS on the politically motivated CDC
Trump was right? Schools should be open?
Just don’t ever drink if you take Famotidine.....
Also, a zinc supplement is better than Zicam...
Si, re “don’t drink”
My actual pref:
Famotidine + Zinc + Emergen-C + vitamin D + SLEEP
My nephew (college freshman this fall) has had two acquaintances/friends from his high school commit suicide earlier this year.
Not drink!?!
LOL, I’d rather get Covid!
All part of the population-reduction plan.
What a waste of life. Decades of life ahead of teens in which they can improve their conditions, and they throw it away because they can't struggle though a year or two. Someone needs to counsel these teens to hang in there, because life can get better when conditions improve. Life is all about change.
One in 4 young adults have struggled with suicidal thoughts since the coronavirus hit, CDC says.
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No f*%ing sh*t, sherlock. Who would have ever seen this coming?s/
The child in the article was mentally ill. They’re one of the groups most at risk for suicide.
Another group is fatherless teens, “63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (U.S. Dept. Of Health/Census) ...”
It’s never a good year to be a teen with either of those two issues. This year makes it worse.
Culling the herd. Snowflakes finally given a chance to melt.
The article also states that 40% of Americans have mental health issues as a result. I honestly think that is on the low side. I would say it is more in the 70 to 80% range who have begun to suffer some level of mental health crisis as a result of this.
To me, it boils down to the fact that for months now you’ve had these elected officials, primarily in democrat run states, but also people like Dr. Fauci and Dr. scarf who have been telling you everyone around you is a deadly disease that will kill you, and you probably have it too and will kill them if they don’t have it. I’m no expert, but I cannot be good for anyone’s mental health. Now you add in the crippling financial crisis this has resulted in And I don’t see a easy recovery path for millions of people.
I can’t speak for the survey, but I do know someone who works for a fairly large regional hospital system. Well they don’t have any hard numbers, they have seen what they believe to be an increase in mental health related cases That they have dealt with, and also speaking with their peers they have seen similar things as well.
They have said that they don’t believe We can economically or mentally sustain another crippling lockdown without much longer lasting and devastating side effects to completely healthy people.
Early in the “pandemic” there was actually a slight decrease. As the article states, Immediately after a crisis, suicides sometimes decrease briefly because of a “pulling together effect.” In the first six months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, suicide rates among New Yorkers declined.
Not only, but more importantly as regards health, since most transmission occurs in household-type settings (A new (Oct 29, 2020) Massachusetts report on clusters found that household transmission was at the center of the vast majority (almost 94 percent[26] ) of recent COVID-19 cases.[https://www.wcvb.com/article/5-investigates-new-data-shows-households-at-center-of-most-covid-19-clusters/34524107#], then rather than closing beaches and parks, getting out to exercise and play should have been enabled and exhorted. And perhaps turning cruise ships into nursing homes for many.
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