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by tboyd47 2141 days ago
Headline is not complete.

"After a rise in negative emotions at the start of the pandemic, wellbeing improved once lockdowns began – but not for everyone."

That's the understatement of the year. Suicides, drug abuse, child sexual abuse, domestic violence, and food insecurity have risen sharply since the lockdown. Deaths of despair have already claimed more lives than COVID, even with the bogus death tallies.

Yet we're all supposed to be okay with this because of some Google Trends data? I want to be far, far away from anyone who thinks like this. Like, catch me on the other side of the planet far.
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rossdavidh 2140 days ago
"Deaths of despair have already claimed more lives than COVID..." is a pretty strong statement. I mostly agree that the headline seems highly questionable, but I'm wondering if you have a source for the "deaths of despair" totals?
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tboyd47 2140 days ago
I said this because I heard it referenced on one of my favorite morning shows. I looked for the source and found the CDC director's webinar.

"We’re seeing, sadly, far greater suicides now than we are deaths from COVID. We’re seeing far greater deaths from drug overdose that are above excess that we had as background than we are seeing the deaths from COVID." [0]

I can't tell from his wording whether he's talking about just young people or all age groups, but the context suggests he's talking about young people.

Unfortunately, neither the CDC nor any other agency has published the nationwide suicide totals for 2020 yet so I can't cross-reference the CDC director's statement.

Searching for anything related to "deaths" on Google or DuckDuckGo within the past month (which I am increasingly seeing as a front for Google) only returns COVID-19 death information.

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[0] https://www.buckinstitute.org/covid-webinar-series-transcrip...

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