BirdDog10
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1) The data for adolescents in 2019 and beyond is not available yet. The studies on 2018 were just published in late 2020/early 2021.YOU claim that suicide has been the leading cause of death in young people since 2018-- I was unable to verify that claim, in the document that you linked-- please cite the passage in that document where that claim is made.
Meanwhile, even if your claim were correct, you have NO data to show that Covid-19 public health measures have, in any way, driven up the ALREADY EXISTING suicide rate that prevailed in 2018-- you just ipse dixit assert such-- please provide current data to support your claim-- such data would, of necessity, reflect the years 2020 and 2021.
2) Common sense. You clearly do not know anything about kids today if you think that everything that has happened to them in the last year would not increase already high suicide rates.
Even without the suicide statistics, the covid statistics are there and the logical conclusion is clear, covid should be the least of our concerns in protecting the physical and mental health of adolescents.