When tallying the costs of lockdowns, increased suicidalism is a major one. Comparing two numbers.
- All of Australia from 2020 and 2021, increased number of deaths from Covid: 966.
- The Australian state of New South Wales only, year 2021, increased suicide-ideation number: 32,819 so far.
Responsible public policy making tallies benefits and costs of possible actions, and it does its best to anticipate unintended consequences.
G’day.
Do you have more detail on the source of that NSW health data? A websearch, and looking at NSW Health website itself, gets me only to 2019 at latest.