08-11-2020, 10:18 AM
Explanation: I asked a couple of questions related to covid19 and mental health in another thread ...
Left-wing views among young women are linked to mental illness by @"Wallfire"
and I quote myself ...
And I realized I hadn't considered nor included the mortality rate for mental health issues.
So I went and looked things up and did some basic research and here is what I have found out ...
How common are mental health problems?
Suicide deaths forecast for 13.7% increase
Personal Disclosure: Ok let me crank the maths now eh ...
The % of covid10 deaths overall [using the above figures ok] is 1 in 1000 people die OR 0.1%!
OK we round off 19,878 to 20,000 for ease of doing maths ... and the Australian population is 26million people [2020 numbers rounded up] divided by 20,000 = 1300 ... 100/1300 = 0.077%
So mental health issues AFFECT far more people BUT kill less than covid19 kills.
I hope this new perspective helps my fellow rogues make the best decisions they can in regards to how deadly covid19 and mental health issues are.
Stay Healthy ok.
Left-wing views among young women are linked to mental illness by @"Wallfire"
and I quote myself ...
Quote:@ Everybody ...
What if I told you that Covid19 only affects like 1-2% [1in 50-100] of the population and of those infected ... about 4-5% die [1 in 20-25] ???
Would you shut down everything and spend megabux in the billions of $'s range on fixing that?
Personal Disclosure: Now what if I told you that 25% of everybody on earth [1 in 4] ... will suffer a mental health issue inside a single year ... and that 60% [6 in 10] will suffer a mental health issue inside a single lifetime???
Would you shut down everything and spend megabux in the trillions of $'s range on fixing that?
And I realized I hadn't considered nor included the mortality rate for mental health issues.
So I went and looked things up and did some basic research and here is what I have found out ...
How common are mental health problems?
Quote:Suicidal thoughts and self-harm
Suicidal thoughts and self-harm aren’t mental health diagnoses. But they are related to mental health. Over the course of someone’s lifetime [2]:Women are more likely to have suicidal thoughts and make suicide attempts than men [2]. But men are 3 times more likely to take their own life than women [4].
- 1 in 5 people have suicidal thoughts
- 1 in 14 people self-harm
- 1 in 15 people attempt suicide.
Suicide deaths forecast for 13.7% increase
Quote:According to the model, under the best-case scenario, Australia was likely to see 19 878 suicide deaths over the period 2020–2025, an increase of at least 13.7%.
The best-case scenario also forecast that there would be 173 123 hospitalisations for self-harm and 1.6 million mental health-related ED presentations.
Quote:This latest report comes after InSight+ last week published a View from experts at the Black Dog Institute questioning the validity of the Brain and Mind Centre’s previous place-based modelling. That modelling, released in May, had projected that increased unemployment, social disconnection and health services at capacity would result in an extra 750–1500 suicides per year over 5 years, with an increase rate of 25–50% per year.
Personal Disclosure: Ok let me crank the maths now eh ...
The % of covid10 deaths overall [using the above figures ok] is 1 in 1000 people die OR 0.1%!
OK we round off 19,878 to 20,000 for ease of doing maths ... and the Australian population is 26million people [2020 numbers rounded up] divided by 20,000 = 1300 ... 100/1300 = 0.077%
So mental health issues AFFECT far more people BUT kill less than covid19 kills.
I hope this new perspective helps my fellow rogues make the best decisions they can in regards to how deadly covid19 and mental health issues are.
Stay Healthy ok.