n mostly, almost entirely by a drop in suicides among white people who apparently kill themselves at a higher rate than any other group. Did you know that? Did you know that white people kill themselves at the highest rate?

Now how do you define equity? Because I've said this before. Shouldn't you just measure everybody's level of happiness and if they're similar you're done, right? You don't have to give anybody extra money or anything if everybody's equally happy the way they are. But if white people are killing themselves at the highest rate I think that's a red flag. Or maybe we're looking at this whole equality thing in a less than optimal way.

But I guess for anyway so I have some theories about that. Here's one of them. I'm not sure that we counted suicides correctly during the pandemic or in general. Here's why. A lot of suicidal people are also drug addicts because why wouldn't you be really if you're suicidal? It almost doesn't make sense not to do drugs. Okay I shouldn't say that. Take that back. That was an irresponsible thing to say. Bring it back. There are some things that are true but you just shouldn't say. So I shouldn't have said that but it's true. And in, I have a, well I won't tell you why I think this but I do know that people who take too many drugs and stop worrying about overdosing might be in the suicidal group. So I think some of the, some percentage of the overdoses are let's say accidental death without much regard for whether they would die. Meaning that people didn't protect their own life because they weren't that concerned about living. Is that suicide if you do things that you know could kill you because you're not interested in living? It's suicide-ish even if you didn't know what would happen on that particular day. You know you might be just redlining how much drugs you're taking but not really planning to die. You're just okay with it if it happens. I don't know. So I would question the data.

But my, if you remember, I don't know if I'm remembering it right. Help me with my memory. I feel as though I predicted that during the pandemic there would be fewer suicides. And my thinking was that people would be in close quarters with their families. They wouldn't be bullied at school the same way and that there would just be sort of less opportunity because we'd all just be around each other and our lives would be constrained. But you'd be with your family more even if you didn't like it. I just felt like the situation was we'd be watched too much and there would be less of it. Now I don't know if that was a good prediction or not but I did not predict that there would be more of it early on. Later on when the statistics seemed to show that there was more of it I think I adopted that view. Red Fury is asking did Sc