Yesterday, 12:38 AM
more importantly, it's necessarily going to be biased info, with a lack of data beforehand that can demonstrate whether the rate of deaths has increased, decreased, or remained constant
before the NHS decision, there would've been motivation to say there were no deaths, to justify why they didn't technically count as suicide, to shrug and say you "lost track" of that person and don't know what happened to them, or even to simply say you don't track that specific kind of data point
because they needed to be able to demonstrate that what they were doing was supposedly helping
and after the decision, there is motivation to meticulously count every death, perhaps even including ones that might not technically be because of the NHS's decision, and to obscure whether or not they were suicides at all
before the NHS decision, there would've been motivation to say there were no deaths, to justify why they didn't technically count as suicide, to shrug and say you "lost track" of that person and don't know what happened to them, or even to simply say you don't track that specific kind of data point
because they needed to be able to demonstrate that what they were doing was supposedly helping
and after the decision, there is motivation to meticulously count every death, perhaps even including ones that might not technically be because of the NHS's decision, and to obscure whether or not they were suicides at all