In the U.K. there’s no evidence of any change in suicide rates in 2020 (it’s normally about 6,000 a year). Registration delays means that we don’t know the numbers for 2020, but early indications are not much change (suicide has been increasing though and is at a record high)
A much bigger issue is the lost of QALYs from lockdown but not from deaths, including the socio-economic impacts.
ONS have a more through report than a Sunday morning post from a phone.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/news/statementsandletters/estimatingt...
The people who mainly benefitted from lockdown measures are the over 60s
The people who mainly lost out were the under 35s
The recovery plan needs to address this - including fixing the massive wealth disparity. A generation of property owning shareholders who have retired have seen their wealth and income balloon over the last year (and decade). But it won’t, millennials will be screwed.
