Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1caolm0/the_rise_in_suicide_suicide_rates_are_now_the/
>>>
>>> The rise in suicide
>>> Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years.
>>>
>>> LAURA DODSWORTH
>>> APR 20, 2024
>>>
>>> Suicide rates are now the highest they have been in England for 25 years.
>>>
>>> The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released the latest report
>>> of quarterly suicide death registrations in England for Quarter 4
>>> (October to December) of 2023. Unfortunately, it shows a 6% rise, which
>>> is the highest national rate of suicides since 1999. There were 1,439
>>> suicides registered in Quarter 4, equivalent to 11.4 suicide deaths per
>>> 100,000 people. Overall there were 5,579 suicides registered in England,
>>> which is significantly higher than 2021 and 2020.
>>>
>>> It’s difficult to attribute causes to individual suicides, as well as
>>> trends. While it is important to to be responsible and circumspect when
>>> speculating, this notable and recent upshift in suicide deaths should be
>>> analysed and monitored.
>>>
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>>>
>>> The ONS figures need to be interpreted with some caution because there
>>> is a delay in coronial inquests, meaning that only 39.3% of the deaths
>>> registered in 2023 had a date of death in the same year, and some of the
>>> deaths occurred in 2022 and 2021. Crucially, this means that we should
>>> be cautious about making conclusions for 2023 at the moment as there
>>> will still be a large number of suicides that occurred in 2023 which
>>> have not yet been registered.
>>>
>>> So what might have caused the trend? Professor Louis Appleby who chairs
>>> the National Suicide Prevention Strategy Advisory Group has commented on
>>> the uptick in suicides on Twitter. He suggested that the likeliest cause
>>> is the economic downturn and cost of living crisis. Historically
>>> recessions cause suicide rates to increase. The North East, North West
>>> and East of England have seen the most significant increases in suicide,
>>> but the North East, Midlands and London are actually the three regions
>>> with the highest levels of poverty, so this theory does not necessarily
>>> tally up neatly. The significant jump in the North West specifically
>>> might indicate a change in the way deaths have been recorded. The
>>> economic effect Appleby proposes would also not easily explain that the
>>> increase for women was greatest in the over 60s.
>>>
>>> Could there be another factor? Appleby has zoned in on the economy for
>>> obvious and sound reasons, but has so far ignored a key factor.
>>>
>>> In April 2021, Professor Appleby was the Lead Author of the report
>>> ‘Suicide in England in the COVID-19 pandemic: Early observational data
>>>from real time surveillance’, analysing ’real time surveillance’ (RTS)
>>> of suspected suicides during the pandemic and lockdowns. Despite greater
>>> distress, the study did not find evidence of an increase in suicide
>>> rates. Ensuing ONS month by month data for 2020 and 2021 also showed no
>>> increase in suicides.
>>>
>>> There was a vital caveat which needed to applied to this data which,
>>> although present within the ONS report, wasn’t given much weight by
>>> people who endorsed the findings: it was too early to be sure. Suicide
>>> is a verdict given by a coronial court, and does not operate in ‘real
>>> time’. Some courts were running almost a year behind on case load during
>>> the pandemic. This was not something to be ignored in favour of real
>>> time data — the coronial verdict is not simply a rubber stamping
>>> process. Analysis based on real time surveillance might have delivered a
>>> reassuring answer at the time to people who wanted to believe that the
>>> pandemic, lockdowns and other distressing NPIs didn’t ultimately lead to
>>> the most tragic consequences, but it was too soon to deliver a verdict.
>>>
>>> Indeed, Appleby’s tweet thread on 12th April 2023, just over a year ago,
>>> was confident in its assumptions:
>>>
>>> ‘New @ONS data give us, for first time, national suicide rates month by
>>> month for Covid years 2020 & 2021, compared to earlier years. Graph
>>> shows no rise in these years overall, or any month, or any period of
>>> pandemic, including lockdown.
>>>
>>> What can we learn from this?
>>>
>>> It may tell us something about the protective power of social cohesion,
>>> of looking out for each other, of community, with its message of
>>> acceptance & concern.
>>>
>>> If so, we need to hang on to it. It hasn’t looked in strong supply lately.
>>>
>>> It may confirm something we saw after the 2008 recession, the
>>> life-saving impact of economic support - for people on benefits or in
>>> debt or fearing for their jobs & homes.
>>>
>>> Particularly important as we head further into the cost of living crisis.
>>>
>>> It reminds us to look at the evidence, no matter what the headlines claim.
>>>
>>> Or the Twitter “likes”.
>>>
>>> Or the academics who should know better.
>>>
>>> Or the current attempt at revisionism in the media.'
>>>
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>>> In a National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental
>>> Health presentation, Appleby suggested a number of reasons why suicide
>>> had not increased. Despite the obvious anxiety about Covid-19, the tough
>>> lockdowns, economic ramifications and huge societal changes, he believed
>>> people were protected due to a combination of:
>>>
>>> economic protections;
>>>
>>> a supposed increase in social cohesion;
>>>
>>> increased vigilance and support from family, friends and neighbours;
>>>
>>> reduced access to certain methods of suicide;
>>>
>>> a sense of short-term crisis.
>>>
>>> These could well have prevented the rise in suicide at the time, but
>>> conclusions from previous analyses of other disasters warn that the rise
>>> in suicide does not occur during the disaster, but afterwards. The lack
>>> of rise in suicides was in keeping with disaster literature. A
>>> subsequent increase in suicide - as we see happening now - is also in
>>> keeping with disaster literature.
>>>
>>>
>>> In the early psychological phases of disaster — ‘heroic’ and ‘honeymoon’
>>> — you would not expect to see more suicides. They come afterwards. In
>>> the case of a ‘slow disaster’ like Covid-19, this could be some time
>>> afterwards.
>>>
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>>> At the time, Professor Lucy Easthope, the country’s leading authority on
>>> disaster and recovery, commented that the real time surveillance data
>>> was very useful, but that more attention should be given to the role of
>>> the coronial process as well as the underreporting of possible suicides
>>> which can be recorded as either an open verdict or crucially a narrative
>>> verdict which allows the coroner to expand on the additional factors
>>> that led to death. Ultimately, she concluded, real time death data could
>>> be unreliable.
>>>
>>> She is now concerned now that ‘post-disaster conditions that may promote
>>> hopelessness are all increased, including economic instability, domestic
>>> violence, depression and alcohol use’ and that ‘we appear to have
>>> incubated a real sense of nihilism and hopelessness in younger people’.
>>>
>>> It’s a frustrating stage of the Covid-19 saga. Warnings at the time were
>>> ignored and it is painful for experts such as Easthope to observe the
>>> impact on the public of chronic disaster and delayed support for
>>> physical and mental health, not to mention the toll on response workers
>>> who ‘tend to feel let down and morally injured by the state’.
>>>
>>> ‘It’s particularly important to consider long-term suicide when risk
>>> assessing economic policies,’ says Easthope. ‘Things like furlough
>>> schemes have positives but also come with substantial emotional
>>> negatives such as future redundancy, effects on self-worth, esteem and
>>> purpose. All disaster decisions come with negatives, there are no purely
>>> perfect answers. Discussion of the negatives was not welcomed and people
>>> like me were seen as pessimistic if we raised suicide as a result of
>>> Cabinet or Treasury decisions. It was very hard to get traction in 2020
>>> and 2021 with these concerns.’
>>>
>>> Whether suicide rates go up or go down, they are preventable and they
>>> are always too high. It’s a tragedy for suicide rates to be the highest
>>> in England for 25 years. If the pandemic and the never-before-used
>>> lockdowns turn out to be a factor in this devastating trend, we could
>>> well see the rates rise further.
>>>
>>> Share
>>>
>>> According to the Samaritans one in five of us have experienced suicidal
>>> thoughts. If you’re going through a tough time, you don’t have to face
>>> it alone. Call Samaritans day or night on 116 123. Email jo@samaritans.org.
>>
>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>
>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>> longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

Source:
https://narkive.com/r8SLELjf.5

Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ

Suggested further reading:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/5EWtT4CwCOg/m/QjNF57xRBAAJ

Shorter link:
http://bit.ly/StatCOVID-19Test

Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart

....because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2024 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis