It occurs to me that all suicides, and most drug overdoses and deaths from alcohol abuse, could reasonably be described as cases of terminal depression.
We think anguish when we think mental health problems, but do not really classify the deaths that follow as logical results of those “illnesses”, which I put in quotes since it is far from clear well adjusted, tranquil happiness is our natural state.
This leads in turn to the obvious and logical conclusion that anything that leads to large increases in depressive disorders—as the lockdowns imposed via the pretext of “public safety” are manifestly and obviously doing—THEMSELVES constitute a disease which often proves fatal.
And short of this, anything that increases anxiety—as these idiotic lockdowns are also doing—increases bad decisions—like bad eating and binge eating—which in the long term also shorten peoples lives, and make them vastly more vulnerable to a host of health complaints, which in turn make COVID-19 more dangerous. Things like diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
People are not monodimensional pieces, and human societies are complex ecosystems with many aspects to them which intelligent and honest people will take into consideration when trying to formulate good policy.
None of that is being done in most places. The Swedes are the only ones I know articulating policy which is not abusive twaddle.