Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "Coronavirus in Europe: Intensive care units under strain | DW News" video.

  1.  Hannah Dyson  From success, failure to contain the virus has many flow on effects, such as you mentioned other healthcare can't occur to the same level. Suicides in 2 Australian states plus NZ have not changed in fact slightly down year on year in 2 and slightly up in one but less than 2 years ago. That's just the ones I am aware of and only covers up to end of June I think. Economically things aren't good either because no foreign tourists however I can't see highly infected countries getting heaps of tourists so that's unavoidable. As to what can the countries that failed do now, I have no idea because it seems like the populations probably won't cooperate with hard lockdowns even though they might still occur regardless which causes all the secondary problems to increase.
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  2.  Hannah Dyson  NZ was one of the places suicides down slightly. My state Queensland it is in between a year ago and the year before that. What has occurred in Australia and NZ based on following them a little bit is lobbyists who already worried about mental health drawing attention to the issue and the mob who literally say 25,000 dead Aussies and Kiwis is the way to go and let's follow Sweden , noting we have restrictions no worse than Sweden anyway. The people suggesting the Swedish model are suffering mental illness and believe we will fail despite evidence to the contrary. Everything is open but the economic impact still exists but again it's still not as bad as a country in lockdown whether enforced or voluntary. I live in inner city Brisbane and my balcony overlooks a major road , I can tell you things are back to relative normal, this doesn't mean boom times but peak hour traffic jams have returned. Young people in Australia and New Zealand have only ever known boom times pretty much , coinciding with the continuous economic expansion of China from 1991 to now. For people who have only known boom times I think it's possible that the mental effects of not being in a boom are more adverse to the society. We have had dips and industry specific problems but never has it affected the majority of the population like this time in recent history. Australia has increased funding for mental health and did so about March or April from memory. So in some ways seeing what is happening in other countries is a significant contributor to mental health issues because those who think we will fail which causes anxiety are believing that because they see pretty much every European country and US fail and by a very wide margin.
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  3.  Tom Paine  that's great but you haven't given your location.
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