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Sounds like you are an expert once again!
I apologize for replying to you, it goes against my better judgement.
"In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020. And women have been impacted most"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/asia/japan-suicide-women-covid-dst-intl-hnk/index.html
I apologize for replying to you, it goes against my better judgement.
"In Japan, more people died from suicide last month than from Covid in all of 2020. And women have been impacted most"
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/28/asia/japan-suicide-women-covid-dst-intl-hnk/index.html
And you give us an article about Japan having more suicides in Oct than Covid deaths. I could find plenty of towns that had more suicide deaths than covid deaths but would I be misleading if I then stated "suicide rates are much higher than covid deaths" and did not mention "In Oct in Japan" which is irrelavant to assesing the seriousness of the COVID deaths per month in another country like the USA.
The most reliable statistics on suicides come from the National Center for Health Statistics and are from 2018. That year, there were 48,312 reported suicides, or an average of 4,026 every month.
Coronavirus deaths per month in the United States have been four times higher or more in recent months.
Going back to June — a month when deaths were falling — it was about 19,000. Now, it’s about 22,000 people per month.This chart shows the ebb and flow of deaths, measured as a seven-day rolling average.
And this information is already out of date and the COVID deaths have increased greatly since it was written. Suicides in America are no where near this and are not increasing.
So about 4000 kill themselves every month in the USA. There is a 3000 a day death rate trending in the US today due to COVID. Do the math.
Japan has only had 2778 deaths from COVID. Using them to make a statement about COVID death rates is misleading.
No experts needed, just google it. Certainly the statement "there are more deaths from suicide than COVID" sounded suspect?
Don't take it personal when I point out the obvious. It's what I do.