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Originally Posted by Lathum
There is zero chance we are even close to that many suicides caused by shelter in place.
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The fairly long-standing expectation is that for every 1% rise in unemployment, there is a roughly corresponding 1% rise in suicides.
If the restrictions lead to the 20-30 unemployment rate that some predict, that would equate to a five figure increase in suicides alone.
And the associated deaths from unemployment increases - which include a significant increase in heart attack deaths and homicides - is close to 40,000 _per each additional percent of unemployment_. (
“Corporate Flight: The Causes and Consequences of Economic Dislocation” by Barry Bluestone, Bennett Harrison and Lawrence Baker")
So yes, the deaths via "cure" are quite likely to dwarf the virus itself.