With the radical media and politicians making the pandemic a fear-inducing tool, deaths caused for other reasons during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic — not because of the virus — have been ignored to such a large degree that those numbers are beginning to outweigh the number of deaths reported as being because of COVID.
It’s sad to report, but in Japan there were more people who died from suicide during the month of October than from COVID during the entirety of the pandemic, according to government statistics.
According to Fox News:
The National Police Agency said suicides surged to 2,153 in October alone, with more than 17,000 people taking their own lives this year to date, CBS reported.
By comparison, fewer than 2,000 people in the country have died from COVID-19 in 2020.
Experts say the pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues due to prolonged lockdowns, isolation from family members, unemployment and other financial concerns, and a lack of school structure.
Numbers like that should be a sobering wake-up call to those who currently live at the alter of COVID. Of course, take the proper precautions. But to go to the lengths that some governments have around the globe — and some state governments in the U.S. — it shows that it’s seemingly way past time to begin taking a closer at the effectiveness of some of the draconian measures government officials have taken during the pandemic.
“We need to seriously confront reality,” Japan’s chief government spokesman Katsunobu Kato said.
Hopefully, Kato’s reference to reality means taking a more common sense approach to tackling the current pandemic.
If you or anyone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.