Some data comparing deaths of young people from Covid versus the spikes in suicides, traffic fatalities, homicides and drug overdoses stemming from the trauma of the last two years.
Fascinating statistics and argumentation. Thank you.
On the statistics: Is there any way to know how many of the poisoning/drugs category are from drugs and how many from other types of poisoning? I assume the younger kids suffer relatively less drug-related deaths and older kids relatively fewer, but the exact proportion affects your argument that we should interpret drug and poisoning deaths as suicides and thus should discount the lack of measured increase in (other types of) suicide.
On the argument: What would you say to the argument that it is too early to reduce mitigation any more than it already has been reduced because community spread is so high and there is great value in reducing community spread, including reducing the numbers of Covid infections that lead to long Covid and reducing overall rate of infection and thus slowing the emergence of new variants? By this reasoning, the most urgent unaddressed need may be increasing access to vaccination around the world.
Fascinating statistics and argumentation. Thank you.
On the statistics: Is there any way to know how many of the poisoning/drugs category are from drugs and how many from other types of poisoning? I assume the younger kids suffer relatively less drug-related deaths and older kids relatively fewer, but the exact proportion affects your argument that we should interpret drug and poisoning deaths as suicides and thus should discount the lack of measured increase in (other types of) suicide.
On the argument: What would you say to the argument that it is too early to reduce mitigation any more than it already has been reduced because community spread is so high and there is great value in reducing community spread, including reducing the numbers of Covid infections that lead to long Covid and reducing overall rate of infection and thus slowing the emergence of new variants? By this reasoning, the most urgent unaddressed need may be increasing access to vaccination around the world.