Trump calmly admits the obvious, that there will likely be more deaths due to economic destruction than due to the virus-March 23, 2020. "There’s a sense of permanence setting in on these briefings,” Rush Limbaugh
“Millions of Americans have just lost their jobs in the last several weeks due to the COVID-19 outbreak shutting down large swaths of the US economy. Households are coming under severe financial stress, with no savings, insurmountable debts, and job loss. Many are waiting for President Trump’s stimulus check to arrive in the mail, some have skipped out on their rent or mortgage payments on April 1,
and others have called their credit card companies to defer debt
servicing payments as incomes for tens of millions of people have gone
to zero.
At the beginning of March, we noted how the gig-economy was about to crash,
and by looking at the employment data that has come out since, along
with future estimates, it’s pointing to an economic depression that
could be arriving as soon as the second quarter.
Households are in rough shape. Many people are
heavily medicated, own weapons, and have some sort of substance use
disorder, suggesting that in periods of extreme financial stress –
suicides could increase.
What’s concerning is that a suicide wave among low-income folks, who are already feeling the side effects of job loss, could be imminent.
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