Forget COVID. Suicide is the main killer. The lockdown is wiping out young lives.

This is not the national suicide rate, but the one we know of at home.   We know of six people who’ve killed themselves in less than a year.  I don’t think I heard of anyone committing suicide round here until these lockdowns started.  The rate of suicide has gone up ten times, at an estimate from what we know of.

The day our son’s school gave a terrifying talk to the children about COVID, a young girl of thirteen went home and hung herself.  The school was following government guidelines no doubt.

A neighbour’s wife was found hanging in a tree.

A former lookalike of a famous footballer who’d never found work for years walked in front of a train.  He had been a Labour Party activist at one time.

A nurse we know of, a close friend of a close friend, went on long term sick leave and killed herself at home

A local boxer aged twenty five killed himself last week

Today another young man of similar age has killed himself, details yet to emerge, the friend of a friend.

UK Column says that the rate of dying in hospital is falling lower and lower, while the rate at which people are dying at home is rising steeply.

Th causes for home deaths are not given by the Office Of National Statistics, but might I suggest that half are suicides.

There are other deaths which look like they might be suicides but they are being reported as COVID.  A local painter who was a loner who had no work died.  In the local newspaper they said he had COVID.  I doubt it.

The suicide cover-up is massive.