The provisional rate of suicides for 2020 is lower than that of 2019 – but this may be due to delays to coroner inquests caused by Covid and lockdowns, meaning the real figure could be much higher, according to the ONS.
Trans activists' claims that the puberty blocker ban will increase child suicides are unfounded and dangerous, an independent review has found.
Lockdowns and school closures have triggered a devastating surge in child suicides and self-harm, with hospital admissions soaring and mental health disorders skyrocketing.
Lockdown has been a major contributory factor to the increase in attempted suicides among Australians aged five-25 over the past six months, according to Kids Helpline.
In its latest "reality check" the BBC takes to task seven of the most frequently shared "false and misleading claims". Unfortunately, it needs some fact checking of its own.
Today's update on Lockdown Sceptics is here. Includes a brilliant response to @cjsnowdon's @quillette article, readers' comments about @NeilDotOBrien's new website and a psychologist's explanation of "Stockholm Syndrome".
I have a research background in the social sciences and dozens of peer-reviewed publications to my name. There’s a lot that sets off my crap detector in Ferguson’s comments – mostly to do with overestimating the validity of his own data, and using this to in effect depoliticise political questions and naturalise a kind of technocratic despotism under the guise of neutral science. I don’t think this is a deliberate conspiracy; I think it’s a predictable result of a particular way of seeing. The political assumption is that ‘we’ as a society make decisions for the whole society (i.e., society is not an aggregate of individuals), that within this range of decisions, anything goes (the only criteria are quantitative), and that the decisions should be made based on expert data. These are highly contentious beliefs: they are not apolitical or scientific. I believe lockdowns are always wrong because people are autonomous beings with a need for freedom, and acts such as threatening violence if a person leaves their home are abusive regardless of circumstances (I don’t believe there is any significant moral difference between a Government, a terrorist group, or an individual abuser making such threats, and I don’t believe the ends justify the means). But I could also cite dozens of political theories which oppose the general model that the Government should ...
The last month has seen more suicides on the Humber Bridge than normally happen in a whole year. Many were young people. The lockdowns are taking their toll on mental health.
New figures show that the most alcohol-specific deaths were recorded in Scotland in more than a decade in the past year of lockdowns. There were 1,190 in 2020, excluding deaths only partially attributed to alcohol.
Children in Japan are no longer required to wear masks at school, but 68% said they would continue anyway while just 5% said they would stop. Their development is greatly suffering and suicides are at record levels.
