[choc e-Claire]

a) It is astonishingly insensitive to use suicide counts for your position on opening up businesses from lockdown. In Australia, at the very least, the suicide count is effectively identical to what it was in 2019, making this a completely ineffectual argument.

b) As Sweden has discovered, the economy generally only works if people are alive to participate in it. It's inevitable that it's taking a dump, which sucks - but will hopefully display some of the flaws in the current system.