You guys pretend/ignore/oblivious/dont care (choose one or any ) there is a benign effect of lockdowns

So ok...a young woman died - sad - ...but if I'm going to make public policy that has, on the one hand young kids topping themselves, or the rare 80 or 90-year-old dying...from who really knows what...its a no contest

Ya know... we could probably keep the national road toll to almost zero and save 1,000 and 1,000s of lives a year.

Just reduce the speed limit to 25kph. But we dont. We dont because we make that considered cost-benefit analysis. and yeah...its macabre and harsh...but we make it all the time

Victorian teenage suicide threats jump 184pc amid pandemic

Hannah Wootton and Ronald Mizen

Jun 7, 2021 – 5.28pm

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Emergency interventions to protect young people in Victoria from suicide and child abuse have skyrocketed by 184 per cent over the past six months, as the state grapples with the mental health consequences of repeated COVID-19 lockdowns, new data from the Kids Helpline reveals.

Teenagers aged 13-18 were the most at risk, accounting for 75 per cent of the total crisis interventions from December 1, 2020, to May 31, 2021.

Teenagers account for 75 per cent of total crisis interventions by the Kids Helpline.

Lockdown-induced loneliness and uncertainty over what their lives would look like in a post-pandemic world were triggers for these mental health emergencies, CEO of Kids Helpline’s parent organisation yourtown Tracy Adams said, warning the trauma inflicted on young people by COVID-19 would be long term.

The emergency interventions, also known as duty of care calls, are instances where Kids Helpline counsellors dispatch police, ambulances or child protection to a caller’s location while still on the phone or online chat.

Forty-four per cent of Victorian interventions from December 1, 2020, to May 31, 2021, were responding to a young person’s immediate intent to suicide, while child abuse emergencies triggered 31 per cent.

Suicide attempt rates were slightly lower federally – they represented 38 per cent of 850-plus interventions, with child abuse accounting for 35 per cent – but were still an increase on the six months prior to the half-year to May 2021.

The total number of emergency interventions nationally rose by 99 per cent, and included kids as young as five years old reaching out for help.

Ms Adams said that while “we knew an increase in child vulnerability was going to occur through the ongoing pandemic lockdowns”, the intervention numbers coming out of Victoria were “very disturbing”.

“When you look at those numbers you can’t help but be really concerned and distressed, as what we’re continuing to see is young people really struggling to find their way through the pandemic,” she said.

“Firstly we saw them being really worried about what was going to happen to their families at the start of the pandemic, then we moved to this phase where they are like ‘what’s the future, my aspirations are going to play out in different ways than they may have and I don’t know what that looks like.’

“Then they’re also dealing with bouts of loneliness and isolation that they may not have had before as social activities and schools are restricted, [and] they’re kept away from the things that gave them pleasure and comfort.”

She warned “this data clearly shows that the effects of lockdown on young people are going to be long term”, calling for greater investment in and advocacy of support services.