I looked at the data and compared death rates. 10% more people died during this "pandemic" than compared to the most recent non-pandemic year. However, is that because the fucking government shut down the whole fucking economy, and people started killing themselves? Maybe. Suicide is up. A lot. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/23/covid-pandemic-rise-suicides/ From the WP: Since the coronavirus arrived, depression and anxiety in America have become rampant. Federal surveys show that 40 percent of Americans are now grappling with at least one mental health or drug-related problem. But young adults have been hit harder than any other age group, with 75 percent struggling. Even more alarming, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently asked young adults if they had thought about killing themselves in the past 30 days, 1 in 4 said they had.