Good analysis but misleading title. If I read the article correctly, there is an uptick in suicide due to the pandemic and the uptick is higher for women. However, the total number for men is still higher.
Overall, it’s good to see that in the grand scheme of things the number of suicides is going down.
As I’m skimming this blog post, there is a lot of good data to be found. But the way the author wants to interpret the data keeps making a little itch at the back of my neck, so let’s read a little bit more broadly.
Author’s description:
>Guy Gin > >Armchair expert in Covid nonsense, especially in Japan.
From that same author’s blog post: “What will convince the Japanese to unmask?”
>This difference could be due to sampling bias, but then again, the 2022 respondents have had 2 years of nonstop pro-mask propaganda coming at them from all angles, including the government telling them to wear masks during Zoom calls and between bites and sips while dining.
That itch is starting to feel a little bit more like a warning light now…
>Japan prepares for the permanent pandemic
>New agencies, new laws, and maybe a new constitution
>And there is another entity to complete this unholy trinity. […] The aim of all this is to unify and streamline Japan’s pandemic response. So how will these new entities work together in practice? Basically, when a new infectious disease causes an outbreak of PCR+ tests, the Japanese CDC will produce outlandish worst-case scenarios based on dodgy models, the Infectious Disease Crisis Management Agency will use these scenarios to justify implementing ineffective and harmful restrictions, and the Infectious Disease Control Department will help to ensure ineffective and harmful drugs and vaccines are distributed. In other words, the same as last time but faster!
That article goes on to argue that a government ordering people to stay in their homes (as opposed to requesting) during a state of emergency is “authoritarian” in nature. Red flag!
So now that we have a clearer idea of what the author’s agenda is, I want to read the conclusion of OP’s linked blog more carefully.
>Discussing possible reasons for these results, Yoshioka et al. mention the economic downturn and social isolation due to social distancing and the first SoE but also suggest that “as COVID-19 spread and society dramatically changed, fears about COVID-19 gradually developed making people psychologically unstable.” > >I couldn’t agree more.
[…]
>Moreover, they conclude that “transformed lifestyles during the pandemic, increasing time spent at home, enhanced the suicide risk of Japanese people by hanging and at home.” > >But these aren’t their most interesting findings. The found that metropolitan and non-metropolitan female SDRs correlated with Covid cases but not Covid mortality. The authors don’t discuss the reason for this, but these results suggest at-risk Japanese females are more susceptible to the media’s hysterical Covid reporting.
The blog is trying to argue that media reporting about COVID is the only possible reason women stuck in their homes, having to balance their personal lives with care for their families, might have committed suicide in higher numbers.
At this point, we might ask ourselves what credentials “Guy Gin” has to show his analysis is any more credible than the posts in a random Newsmax article comments section.
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Good analysis but misleading title. If I read the article correctly, there is an uptick in suicide due to the pandemic and the uptick is higher for women. However, the total number for men is still higher.
Overall, it’s good to see that in the grand scheme of things the number of suicides is going down.
As I’m skimming this blog post, there is a lot of good data to be found. But the way the author wants to interpret the data keeps making a little itch at the back of my neck, so let’s read a little bit more broadly.
Author’s description:
>Guy Gin
>
>Armchair expert in Covid nonsense, especially in Japan.
From that same author’s blog post: “What will convince the Japanese to unmask?”
[https://guygin.substack.com/p/what-will-convince-the-japanese-to?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F74055457-guy-gin&utm_medium=reader2](https://guygin.substack.com/p/what-will-convince-the-japanese-to?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F74055457-guy-gin&utm_medium=reader2)
>This difference could be due to sampling bias, but then again, the 2022 respondents have had 2 years of nonstop pro-mask propaganda coming at them from all angles, including the government telling them to wear masks during Zoom calls and between bites and sips while dining.
That itch is starting to feel a little bit more like a warning light now…
>Japan prepares for the permanent pandemic
>New agencies, new laws, and maybe a new constitution
[https://guygin.substack.com/p/japan-prepares-for-the-permanent?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F74055457-guy-gin&utm_medium=reader2](https://guygin.substack.com/p/japan-prepares-for-the-permanent?utm_source=%2Fprofile%2F74055457-guy-gin&utm_medium=reader2)
From that blog:
>And there is another entity to complete this unholy trinity. […] The aim of all this is to unify and streamline Japan’s pandemic response. So how will these new entities work together in practice? Basically, when a new infectious disease causes an outbreak of PCR+ tests, the Japanese CDC will produce outlandish worst-case scenarios based on dodgy models, the Infectious Disease Crisis Management Agency will use these scenarios to justify implementing ineffective and harmful restrictions, and the Infectious Disease Control Department will help to ensure ineffective and harmful drugs and vaccines are distributed. In other words, the same as last time but faster!
That article goes on to argue that a government ordering people to stay in their homes (as opposed to requesting) during a state of emergency is “authoritarian” in nature. Red flag!
So now that we have a clearer idea of what the author’s agenda is, I want to read the conclusion of OP’s linked blog more carefully.
>Discussing possible reasons for these results, Yoshioka et al. mention the economic downturn and social isolation due to social distancing and the first SoE but also suggest that “as COVID-19 spread and society dramatically changed, fears about COVID-19 gradually developed making people psychologically unstable.”
>
>I couldn’t agree more.
[…]
>Moreover, they conclude that “transformed lifestyles during the pandemic, increasing time spent at home, enhanced the suicide risk of Japanese people by hanging and at home.”
>
>But these aren’t their most interesting findings. The found that metropolitan and non-metropolitan female SDRs correlated with Covid cases but not Covid mortality. The authors don’t discuss the reason for this, but these results suggest at-risk Japanese females are more susceptible to the media’s hysterical Covid reporting.
The blog is trying to argue that media reporting about COVID is the only possible reason women stuck in their homes, having to balance their personal lives with care for their families, might have committed suicide in higher numbers.
At this point, we might ask ourselves what credentials “Guy Gin” has to show his analysis is any more credible than the posts in a random Newsmax article comments section.