Tag: Suicide

What Waging War Is Really Like, by David Swanson

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 2, 2020 October 4, 2020

The vast majority of people who experience war directly, first-hand, rather than through Hollywood movies or politicians’ speeches, are the people who live where wars are waged. In wars involving distant wealthy nations on one-side, some 95% of those killed or injured or traumatized, and 100% of those bombed out of their homes are people against whom war is waged, most of them civilians and the rest of them people doing exactly what any Hollywood movie or politician would tell them — have told them — to do: fight back.

What Waging War Is Really Like, by David Swanson

Deadlier than Covid? Medics sound alarm as lockdown suicides SOAR in US – and health officials knew it would happen

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“We’ve seen a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks,” Dr Mike deBoisblanc, lead trauma surgeon at the John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, told local media on Thursday, confirming the center had seen more deaths from suicide over the two-month lockdown period than deaths from coronavirus.

Deadlier than Covid? Medics sound alarm as lockdown suicides SOAR in US – and health officials knew it would happen