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2020-05-24 Economy

SF Bay Area Docs warn: We see more deaths by suicide during quarantine period than deaths from COVID-19

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Posted by Lex 2020-05-24 08:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 You were warned.
Sickening.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-24 11:10|| 2020-05-24 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 F'in disgusting. And, of course, sad.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-24 11:12|| 2020-05-24 11:12|| Front Page Top

#3 It's bad enough we have NY's Cuomo, the Grandma Killer, but when all is said and done, how much savagery will we discover based on the response to the COVID-19 "crisis" as opposed to the COVID-19 itself?

Posted by Clem 2020-05-24 11:15|| 2020-05-24 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 WALNUT CREEK, Calif. (KGO) -- 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.

The head of the trauma [unit] in the department believes mental health is suffering so much, it is time to end the shelter-in-place order. ...

The numbers are unprecedented, he said.

"We've never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time," he said. "I mean we've seen a year's worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks."

Posted by Lex 2020-05-24 11:31|| 2020-05-24 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 This is just one metric. Deaths from other causes are rising too. ER's are empty, doctors are being furloughed, tent hospitals are closing after never treating a single patient, and people are dying because they can't access routine healthcare.

Posted by Iblis 2020-05-24 11:49|| 2020-05-24 11:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Indeed.

Deaths from foregone surgeries and other forms of urgent care denied because of the retarded lockdown will be even greater than the toll from increased suicides, addiction and violence.

We're already seeing this increase in the CDC's own data. The lockdown is killing as many people as it is saving lives.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-24 11:57|| 2020-05-24 11:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Culling the herd.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-24 15:21|| 2020-05-24 15:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Sure. What does a course of chemo cost? $1m or something like that? Well, if you kill off 1000 people who otherwise would have needed cancer treatment, you just saved your state a cool $1B.

Posted by Iblis 2020-05-24 18:09|| 2020-05-24 18:09|| Front Page Top

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