Surely you are not suggesting that we're not seeing any economic distress due to the shutdown? None, nobody, not a single family has any financial distress due to this? I guess every single person who lost a job, every business owner who has closed down, all of them to the last man and woman has made less than 600 bucks a week and now all is just peachy. Who knew the entire fucking nation was working at the poverty level.Did the individual display symptoms of COVID-19. There are a clear list of symptoms that must be displayed in a hospital in the U.S. before a death can be attributed in any manner as COVID-19 related. The claims that hospitals are simply marking every death as "COVID-19" for more Medicaid/Medicare money is absurd.
Due to a proper public health response in most states the hospitals were not over-run with patients and ventilators were available. This is all attributable to the lock-downs.
An increase in suicide is much more likely to be driven by economic distress than COVID-19 lock-downs. As of now in the U.S. we have $600 extra weekly in unemployment, $1200 payments, freezes on evictions and other relief measures. We are not currently seeing the economic distress at the family level yet. This may change in a few months once the government measures are completed and people are being evicted & can't pay their bills. This would likely drive an increase in suicides -- being locked-down with your family due to COVID-19 is not.
