(4 December 2021, 22:03)MaryN Wrote: Sitting here quietly chuckling at your posts, MB. I think you are bored and have decided to play devil's advocate...?
Hey, it's cold outside and I can't go out and play. Traffic is horrid 3 weeks before Christmas so I'm stuck at home, inside.
My wife died 12 years ago, the cat died 8 years ago, I have no one left to pester.
Since I have no one else to chase the laser dot I come here and try to start unusual conversations.
No one here ever runs the numbers. This terrible spike in the suicide rate is equal to what was happening in the 1980s and is slightly less than pre-2020. It is no worse than the rest of Europe and only a fraction higher than the States.
The numbers they are exploiting as staggering are 16 deaths in 100,000 in the male population 20-50.
That is 8 per 50,000, 4 per 25,000, 2 per 12,000 and 1 per 6,000.
Yes, 1 per 6,000 male people!
Now fill a stadium with 6,000 men and say that one person of that multitude is going to take their own life in the next year, would you actually consider that shocking? No, most would not, they would wonder why it was not more!
Truth is that this is the absolutely healthiest segment of the population. Very little is going to kill a 20-50 year old male, except accident or suicide. Health and safety laws have insulated everyone from everything and men no longer do "man things" (fast cars, fast bikes, and fast women) as much as they once did, which often got them killed, so suicide wins out as the largest killer of the group.
Add ten years and it is heart disease. Add ten more and it is heart disease and/or cancer. And consider that everyone that dies of "old age" is listed a victim of heart disease and you can imagine why those numbers are high in the total population. That really seems a natural progression of COD.
It is these shock tactics that get your tax money diverted to useless studies and "emergency measure to stop the tragic losses to suicide" Which actually number only 5,000 for the entire population.
But it is the "leading cause of death" in that age group, so it can be exploited for politics and bureaucratic profit.