It was reported last week that despite fears of the mental health crisis prompted by the lockdowns leading to a spike in suicides in 2020, the number of people committing suicide in the U.K. did not rise after the first lockdown. While the provisional rate of suicides for 2020 is lower than that of 2019, this may be due to delays to coroner inquests, meaning the actual figure could be much higher, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The Mail has the story.
Registered suicides in England fell in 2020 as inquests were delayed during the coronavirus pandemic, official data shows.
Some 4,902 suicides were registered across the country last year – giving a provisional rate of 9.9 suicide deaths per 100,000 people, the ONS said.
That represents a fall from 2019, when the rate was 10.8 suicide deaths per 100,000 people.
The ONS said the fall “most likely reflects delays to coroner inquests, because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, as opposed to a genuine decrease in suicide”.
The 2020 figures are provisional and will be finalised by the ONS in late 2021.
All deaths by suicide are investigated by coroners, with deaths usually registered around five to six months after they occur due to the length of time it takes to hold an inquest.
Of the suicides registered in 2020, more than half (51.2%) occurred that year. Some 3,674 involved males, and 1,228 females.
Between April and June 2020, during the first national lockdown, the provisional suicide rate fell by 36.1% compared with the same period in 2019.
The number of registered suicides in this quarter was the lowest since 2001.
This is most likely to be due to the impact of the pandemic on the coroner’s service, such as delays to inquests as the service adapted to social distancing measures, the ONS said.
The number of registered suicides increased in the second half of 2020, most likely due to inquests resuming, the ONS said.
In November, the charity Rethink Mental Illness said the number of people turning to its website for support with suicidal thoughts had tripled in the first six months of lockdown. A new study also found that the lack of in-person treatments – because of lockdowns – has made mental health patients feel as though they “were missing out on care”.
The Mail’s report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: A report from the Journal of the American Medical Association shows a decrease in U.S. suicides in 2020 by 2,700, from 47,500 to 44,800. But, at the same time, there was a substantial increase in the number of “unintended injury” deaths (an increase of 19,000 from 2019) which was “largely driven by drug overdose[s]”.
Dr Gary Ordog, MD, from the Department of Health Services in the County of Los Angeles (retired) said:
I was surprised by the suicide rate reported to have a major decrease in 2020. It seems from most other reports that the suicide rate has increased since the pandemic began. This may be explained by the fact that the category of “Unintentional Injury” had a major increase at the same time, and the fact that this category includes drug overdoses. As there is often inadequate history in a fatal drug overdose case, many of these may be purposeful and so suicidal. This would explain the perceived increase in suicide rate since the current pandemic began. Perhaps further analysis of the data would elucidate this incongruity.
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Fuck me rigid. I’m reading these news stories in disbelief. I’m not even angry anymore just totally numb. What an absolute crock of shit what’s actually happening all over the world. Can anyone actually tell me what the point is anymore?
Mate, the people involved in that Twitter video need assassinated straight away.
Things must get worse before they get better, shock therapy is required to break the hypnosis, just keep holding the line and inform people along the way.
We will get through this.
This is true. I do think humanity is going through a huge awakening which cannot be stopped. TPTB, the elites, whatever, know this even if many humans don’t know it yet, hence the maniacal operations to put their agenda in place before it’s too late…for them. The veil is coming down, millions are seeing the world for what is really is for the first time, and we’re realising now, how we’ve been duped in so many ways. We are a powerful force when we awake and unite. This terrifies them. They want us fearful, because we’re easier to control, but don’t be pulled down by it. Hold hard, stand tall, speak your truth every time and show love. Feel anger too but don’t attach yourself to it, let it pass. When you stop giving it to them, reacting to them, letting them drain your energy, they go nowhere.
“And then you will be a man my son”.
And part of the “awakening” is the realisation that many of the people around us have shown their true colours as defectors and minions, who no longer are able to use critical thinking capacity and who place no value on freedom whatsoever. I’ve never been more disappointed and ashamed by fellow humans, especially those I thought I knew, in my life! I think those of us on here have very finely tuned and highly functioning bullshit radars.
+ 10
Unfortunately Helena all I can see around me on ALL sides are zombies, whose sole concern seems to be where their next takeaway and six pack will be coming from.
I am literally seeing people “conditioned” to no longer not only think for themselves but seemingly unable to think at all – how on earth are people whose brains have been turned to this kind of mush ever going to awaken and see what is being put in place
Although I expected much of what is happening, and I fully anticipate it will get worse – the biggest disappointment I feel above all else is being alienated by my family and friends. And I despair at the rapid decline in public manners and a crashing standard of common decency. Being neighbourly is gone in my immediate area – utterly, completely gone.
And there’s no comfort from my pro-vaxxx family. They displayed no signs of sympathy or remorse when I told them tonight that my partner has now been formally warned she will be sacked by the NHS if she’s not been jabbed by early next year. The TV continued to blast out expensive government covid adverts, which stimulated a far bigger reaction from them. Something really odd is happening to people who are taking the ‘vaccine’ – it really is like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and it’s heart-breaking.
Same. You are not alone.
Yes, I am the only unvaxxed I know in my circle.
It can be lonely but thankfully there are sites like this one.
Keep holding the line, stand firm and never surrender.
Even this, one day, will pass.
Here in the Netherlands we have more and more teenagers getting the jab, not because they care about the virus, but because they won’t be able to participate in society and do all the regular, fun things ( even going to McDonald’s FFS! ) they’ve always enjoyed unless they get the ‘vax pass’. For now testing is free but it won’t be for very long, I can see it. And it’s only valid for 24 hours anyway. This is how they’re getting to the kids. They just want to be with their mates and doing what teenagers have always done. Totally effed up!
Yes Mogwai, but so harmful – this is their future they are jabbing away
I hear you. The countries have gone full Zombie Nation. If it came to taking sides they’d side with the government over a loved-one. It really is something else. I know people who’re unjabbed and their family has said they won’t have them round for Christmas due to that fact. Words fail me.
I can well believe it – there will likely be a neighbourhood christmas gathering in one of my neighbour’s homes. I fully expect not to be invited, and won’t even mind if I am not because I really don’t think, from a shedding perspective, that I would want to spend an extended period of time crushed up in a room full of fully jabbed people
Yep: if it is an alien takeover of Earth, it is going to plan! #planetdemic
It’s because the longer they keep up the pretence, in their own heads, that Covid is really dangerous and that the government is doing everything correctly to keep them safe the more traumatic it will be to eventually admit to themselves that they have been taken for fools.
Every time you bring up the subject with friends and family it reminds them of that, even if only subconsciously, hence their hostility.
It’s the same reason why the government has to keep on pretending for the foreseeable future.
Kings new clothes indeed.
J4mes – you speak for me also. I have been ghosted by several family members because I won’t get the jab – these are people who are of the organic ‘clean’ eating variety who practice yoga and pilates and only drink evian water – sooooo health conscious that they will allow themselves to be double jabbed with whatever is in those pfizer vials and won’t set foot outside their front door unless they are wearing a mask. And they ghost me because I am trying to protect my bodily autonomy and don’t want to have the health that I do have compromised by having a jab I don’t want to have.
I am totally in agreement with you – you express it very well – that something odd indeed does seem to be happening to the jabbed masses. The only way I can describe it is like being surrounded by zombies – with brain function markedly dumbed down. I am convinced it is the jabs and that it is deliberate.
I was thinking that way years before covid, people are literally risking their lives for a holiday. Sticking a toxic chemical cocktail they have no idea what’s in it, how it works, what harm it may do in their arms all on the say so of a politician FFS!
A letter from the past that predicted the future
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“The Covid beds that were unused”(private hospitals). As revealed in UnHerd.
I’ve been telling about how they requisitioned the local Nuffield at the start of lockdown 1 but didn’t use it for anything for well over 12 months and even then it was partially used to clear up the general backlog in treatments.
Hardly news UnHerd.
Shame on the private healthcare system, no doubt they eagerly took their thirty pieces of silver so that they could ‘keep staff safe’. Another piece in the Op Depop jigsaw.
Dunno whether their paying customers got a refund for being locked out of the service they paid for.
You think this is bad – watch this. The footage of the German guy being force vaccinated is disturbing in the extreme, then news that a top notch nano scientist is now dead after analysing the vials and disclosing that the jabs contain graphene hydroxide nano razor blades which are slowly cutting up the jabbed from the inside.
The Pandemic Narrative Becomes Even More Ridiculous
https://www.bitchute.com/video/R0Xk1a2oFg0d/
Interesting headline referenced above and now doing the rounds on various news sites:-
‘More than half of Omicron cases are in double vaccinated people’
Why is this such a surprise? Has been the case with Delta for quite some time?
Even more interesting, if you read the linked article it turns out that of the 22 cases, only 20 have their vaccination status recorded, and only 6 of those are unvaccinated.
In other words, 70% of omicrosoft cases are in the vaccinated.
‘More than half’ could be 100%
Even if it were 99% or 100% it doesn’t matter anymore. We left science and reason for tyranny and propaganda, long ago.
so vaccines are therefore not “efficacious” as they are so keen to trot out to the unjabbed and how then will more jabbing via the ‘boosters for all’ campaign [nothing else matters other than boosting the jabees] ‘protect’ anyone from the O variant
So I was right, the wrongfully incarcerated individuals were three aboriginal teenagers:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-01/multiple-people-escape-howard-springs-quarantine-facility-darwin/100663994
Like I say. Rabbit. Proof. Fence.
These politicians who apologise for ancient wrongs and then commit similar abuses…
Saw tat film about 20 years ago. Was almost traumatised by it. And nothing has changed obviously.
North Korea Gulag
Guantanamo Bay
Australian Covid Quarantine
An elder from Binjari addressed this directly; her rage was palpable.
It really is the new War on Terror. Instead of “freedom” through corporate imperial ownership of state assets it’s now “freedom” through corporate imperial ownership of you.
I wonder who writes this stuff for him…
When your body becomes the property of the state, I suspect we are going down a dangerous road.
Everytime I see him doing a speech it just reminds me of the scene in Anchorman when they catch out Ron because ‘he will read whatever you put on the autocue’
Two 15-year-olds, illegally vaccinated before the EUA, are dead. EVERYONE should pay attention.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/two-15-year-olds-illegally-vaccinated?r=z6ksu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter
And as I recall, there have been zero deaths among healthy 15-17 year olds in the UK. Do we have any numbers for known or suspected “vaccine deaths among UK children?
Scientists pushed for tougher Covid rules even before U.K.’s first Omicron case” – NERVTAG experts warned ministers that the variant first identified in South Africa could trigger a new wave of severe infections, reports the Telegraph.
Absolutely with this top comment over at the Telegraph regarding this article — these people ARE extremely dangerous.
If these people think that way – then let them and their families cower inside their own homes too terrified to live a normal life. If that is what THEY choose to do.
And if the government really feels the need to do so, then let them try to scare the bejaysus out of everyone and offer jabs to those who want them – then they will have fulfilled their duty of “being seen to do something”.
And then they can let the rest of us, who don’t want to be jabbed and aren’t scared witless and just want to go about our normal lives unhindered, do precisely that.
This thing would be over before you could say ‘Jack robinson’
“Germany’s lurch into Covid authoritarianism” – The new Government is set to impose compulsory vaccination and a lockdown for the unvaccinated, writes Sabine Beppler-Spahl in Spiked.
(Is he in that railway carriage he used to humiliate the French? Spirit of Vichy’s alive and well anyway).
“Ireland closes nightclubs and tightens Covid rules” – “Irish nightclubs are to shut again and the hospitality sector faces tighter rules over Christmas as the Government tries to curb the spread of Covid,” reports BBC News.
“Covid”? Is tha that bug with the 0.1% fatality rate (and far less for healthy people)?
I wonder if they’ve done a cost-benefit analysis?
Come on Ireland, fight for your right to party!
Interesting how the DM will sometimes go there…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10261605/Sporty-plumber-26-DIES-12-days-getting-Pfizer-Covid-vaccine.html#article-10261605
The mail has been all over the place throughout this whole thing. One day spouting the official narrative verbatim, the next taking a borderline sceptical position.
DM is always like that. I think the editor spins a wheel.
They have hugely leant towards the government / Sage narrative but they also like to keep a little toe in our camp in a pitiful attempt at being ‘balanced’. They are quite contemptible.
26? The exact same age as that rugby international who died last week.
Not sure anyone should be surprised about this. The people who rule Britain hate it and all its institutions and traditions. On top of this, there are very few ethnically English Christians in the cabinet and none at all in the main offices of state. Eventually, their salami-slicing tactics of ethnic cleansing and culture-eradication will reach a point where it all goes bang.
Critical to the understanding of the regime’s censoring of the word Christmas is that ethnic minorities do not care in the least about the word or the religious holiday. Many enjoy it. The regime on the other hand, which is strongly anti-religion and anti-family, despises it and knows it must go. So not only is this despicable scum engaged in ethnic-cleansing and an anti-Christian pogrom, it’s also more than happy to use ethnic minorities and let them take the blame for it. People must wake up to the regime. We must ignore it and all its unlawful edicts and most of all we must mock it, tirelessly.
Let’s start by using the word CHRISTMAS as much as we can, and pressuring our puppet MPs to raise the issue of the treacherous Cabinet Office’s decision in the Commons.
(And Advent, a time of penance not parties according to Christian belief…)
I remember a comment from Polly Toynbee that she thought that ‘Christmas’ was great but not much to do with Christianity.
Easter, happily, may be bullet-proof.
And it is far more important than Christmas.
Not to the churches it isn’t. Easter 2020 passed entirely unobserved by our local churches. They stayed locked. None of them even put a ‘Christ is risen’ poster on their notice boards.
Attendance at Easter 2021, at the coward covidian church in Tenby, was by ticket only, ‘to spare the churchwardens the embarrassment of having to turn people away’.
You wouldn’t have Easter if you didn’t have Christmas.
I intend to light a candle and place it in my front window every day in the run up to Christmas – in memory of all those who have died from the jabbing and in solidarity with all those unlawfully incarcerated in Australia and elsewhere because of their jab status.
If anyone comments on it I will have no hesitation in telling them. Would imagine very few of my immed neighbours would have a clue that there are aborigines locked up in quarantine camps in Australia.
Some years ago I visited the magnificent Cloisters museum of medieval art in New York. They were selling Christmas cards featuring a reproduction of an exquisite Madonna and Child.
The greeting inside the card read ‘Happy Holidays’.
Now you cannot visit The Met unless you show proof of vaccination.
And you know where “Happy Holidays” comes from don’t you..???
“German government set to impose compulsory ‘vaccination’ “.
Are they the Socialist party or the National Socialist party? And I ask again, why are the greens going along with the Frankenstein science of large corporations?
Saw a clip of a 49 year-old woman destroyed by the AZ vaccine on UK Column recently. A week after the injection she developed severe headaches. Went for a scan and they found a severe blood clot on the brain. They removed part of her skull and repaired the damage but the process left her totally paralysed down her left side. She now has to walk on crutches, assisted by her husband and wear a helmet because part of her skull is missing.
Totally healthy woman, but now totally destroyed. Adding insult to injury, the entire regime is dedicated to telling the masses people like her don’t exist. Mandating injections that do this to people, however rare, is a crime against humanity. If they push this, we might have to stop talking and make our point another way.
Oh, Devi “100% safe” Sridhar on CBBC? Is she going to be charged for these claims or does she have a plausible excuse?
That she is merely an idiot, albeit a “useful” one?
Or a pathological liar?
” ‘vaccines’ may be needed for a decade or longer say government scientific advisers”. (Times muppets)..
Goodness, what is ten years of taking this experimental muck every three months going to do to people? I suppose at least people will know the long term safety data by then…
We’re ruled by a monstrous, murderous regime that kills thousands of people every day around the world with their gene therapy. And fattened by toxic seed oil and brain-numbed by Crapflix and nachos, we’re going out with a whimper.
Nobody will know long term safety data – they will be dead.
All of them? Must be very ‘effective’ if so, normally there’s always been people who survive these things. And I ask again, is spike protein shed a threat to the “unvaccinated” or do they have nothing to worry about?
I can remember seeing it in Pfizer studies so it’s not a crazy idea at all. What a fabulously successful weapon of division this has been.
There seems to be 2 schools of thought re the shed Hugh – I’m with the “the spike protein is shed” school and it is a threat to the unvaccinated.
They don’t care, they will bump off most of us one way or another long before then. I’m going with hyperinflation (basically starve the population and completely remove medical care) and if that doesn’t work we can always join the forthcoming war between the US and China.
I read that acorns are a possible food of last resort in times of starvation…
Maybe we should all keep a copy of Food For Free handy.
“This is because,” added Royal Court Astrologer Sir Patrick Vallance, “my tea leaves say the virus will stop mutating in the year 2031.”
But the world will have succumbed to climate change by then, so experts say.
Yeah.. only 21 more chemtrail spraying days to Christmas..
or as long as it takes for enough of their mates to make a shed load of money out of it and complete the wealth transfer…
Has anyone managed to work out why the UK is being spared the tyrannical extremes of the US, Canada, Eurozone and Aus/NZ? And does this point to some kind of separation from the economic smoke and mirrors underpinning this fiasco?
Because we are next that’s all.
Yep. Sigh.
What I so like about many sceptics is their buoyant optimism. It really inspires one to carry on the fight and not yield to the zombie masters.
London is the financial centre of the world, lots of dodgy deals routed through the capital. If the UK falls too quickly, the mega rich will be slightly less mega rich. It’s coming our way, just not until the elites have siphoned off enough wealth for themselves.
Because our PM is fundamentally uncomfortable with this? That Toby Young has turned out to be right?
Uncomfortable.. WTF !!!!!
Think UK is just sitting on fence for time being, keeping watching brief to see how it is all going in EU, Aus/NZ etc, learning lessons and seeing if they can “get away with it”
I think Sir Graham Brady is very much against a lot of this, and as chairman (or whatever they call it these days) of the 1922 committee, I hope he has enough influence to stop Peking Piffle going too mad.
Steve Kirsch posted this on his Substack earlier today:
I had predicted exactly this back on the 15th Of April on 4Chan (I checked the archives because I couldn’t remember when I posted it). I also posted this on what was at the time, Lockdown Sceptics soon after:
Only one shot is needed to offer comprehensive protection they said.
Two shots offer almost complete protection they said.
Perhaps an annual booster would be a good idea they said.
Maybe you need to take it biannually just to be sure they said.
Well, there’s no good reason not to take a quarterly top up they said.
A monthly shot isn’t really a big deal is it, they said. It is after all, SAFE and EFFECTIVE.
Just take your weekly jab they said.
A daily jab is just like taking a multivitamin they said.
Listen, we know that taking a shot every hour is a pain, but it’s for your own good, they said. YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO GET SICK WOULD YOU??????????
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My next prediction is a record number of footballers “failing medicals” and transfers being cancelled in the upcoming transfer window. There is no way that clubs aren’t going to be running D-Dimer tests all over the place now. Many players will be forced to retire from “previously undetected heart problems associated with Covid-19”.
The only good that will come from this is that the normies are slowly waking up.
More memes.
the new Sceptics Bible.
But, seriously, who, with a thinking brain, would now wish to fit in with mainstream society?
Oh yes, like in the DDR (where Merkel comes from).
Chad German “illegally” takes train without mask and with homemade “unvaccinated armband”.
He looks ready to have a tear up.
44D Chess confirmed.
To salve the many frayed nerves apparent here, I give you your first (grim) giggle of the day.
Gawd BLESS The Babylon Bee.
(And before you go to the trouble of researching it, as did I, yes. Spahn IS WEF.)
https://babylonbee.com/news/germany-announces-they-will-take-large-groups-of-unvaccinated-and-concentrate-them-into-special-camps
Suggestion to the comic book shop proprietor: A sign stating in small print, “Face coverings are required” then in larger, bolder print, “unless YOU ARE EXEMPT”.
Well I did wonder that myself. If you can exempt yourself in the UK why on earth would a shop choose to close? Seems a tad excessive. It’s not the shop imposing the rules after all. Now closing because you don’t want to comply with a ‘vax pass’ situation is a different kettle of fish, but doesn’t apply to the UK, yet.
I went to Blackpool in the summer and was pleasantly surprised that they were essentially doing this, even in the big tourist attractions. I would never normally recommend visiting Blackpool, but their resistance did somewhat negate that.
Time for dirty tricks
Swansea: Cinema & Co’s £53k Covid grants to be reviewed – BBC News
I read that and also saw the possible double standards when a neighbour (or ex-neighbour ) of Hancock is denying any cronyism. with the awarding of NHS contracts.
” “Covid will be a threat to the NHS for at least the next five years and testing and vaccines may be needed for a decade or longer, the Government’s scientific advisers have said,” reports the Times.”
For me, this is the key piece of news from this morning’s round-up. Something to point out to your covidian friends and acquaintances. With each passing day, just a few more of them will no longer be able to delude themselves that this is going to end by government action.
Has the Daily Skeptic missed this news?
The High Court ruled yesterday that Hampshire GP Dr Sam White’s Covid social media ban, that the General Medical Council won from an industrial tribunal in August, was wrong
Ironic that I can only find news of yesterday’s victory for free speech mentioned on BBC News, bing news, a couple of local papers and a short clip on youtube.
https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Dr+Sam+White+GP&qpvt=dr+sam+white+gp&FORM=EWRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2IwyOs2LTY
Can any lawyers out there tell us what this might mean for the blanket covid/vaccine censorship that is rampant?
You can email the DS team on lockdownsceptics@gmail.com
A letter from Dr White’s legal team to Amanda Pritchard may be of interest to you.
lettertoamandapritchard.pdf (pjhlaw.co.uk)
Thanks for the letter – an excellent summary of most of the scandalous aspects of the Covid issue, most notable of which is CENSORSHIP.
True. From a clinical perspective, the bypassing of GPs to enable early treatment is criminal & genocide. That decision smacks of the jabs already being the end game, the use of deaths, NHS staff despair at trying to treat patients who are too far into the disease process to be treatable could have been avoided too. I’m aware that in-patient care was traumatic, far more so than the usual winter pressures. I’ve been in the NHS long enough to have seen post stroke pneumonias killing a third of stroke patients until PEG feeding tubes were introduced in the early 1990s….
It also explains why so few frontline medics know about treatment protocols, even Dr Chetty’s 8th day one which uses drugs for the purpose they were licensed! The chain of command really do have blood on their hands.
Mark Drakeford has been exposed and as shown on the Alex Belfied YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK1vuPcGJ-A
The contempt and disdain these people have for the general public is astonishing. Just who do think they are?
Overheard a comment about GPs being allowed to ignore ordinary healthcare to concentrate on jabbing people: “GPs are off the hook again. They’ll soon forget how to do healthcare.”
Mark Dolan: It’s only a mask, it’s only forever – except it’s only one life.
https://youtu.be/vzyb26kPCc8
Excellent monologue – saw it last night – you’d almost think he had been reading the DS comments section!!!
Such a shame that the ‘comedian’ on his panel didn’t seem to “get” it at all. Left me shouting at TV screen. If I’d been in Mark Dolan’s shoes the temptation to reach across the coffee table to the sofa where he was sitting to brain him would have been too great to resist.
On the ridiculous spread of wokeness in the ‘arts’ and ‘architecture’. https://www.takimag.com/article/the-new-black-gold/
2 on all the trend changes and flaws in bureaucracies, politics and our ‘leaders’. inhttps://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-letter-from-the-past-that-predicted-the-future/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/12/no_author/12-reasons-why-progressives-should-rethink-their-leaders-failing-revolution/