Government imposed lockdowns based on a goal to mitigate social inter-connectivity balanced with providing for lifes’ basics — a delicate dance.

Suicide (based on decades of navigating suicidal idealization in private-practice as a social worker) while certainly a byzantine-laced decision has two common themes:

1. Depression-fueled hopelessness inspiring an
2. abject loss of self-worth.

Lockdowns provide a sense of a collective constructive focused on saving life.

Those who navigate feelings of ending life faced with legally imposed requirements to save life face a decision to live or die.

Gideon — you’re spot-on as to cautioning us to draw causality between lockdowns and changes in suicide rates.