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?
All part of the population-reduction plan.
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.
“One in 4 young adults have struggled with suicidal thoughts since the coronavirus hit, CDC says.”
Anybody else find that to be ridiculously improbable?