Sean Hannity suggests a crashing economy could cause more deaths from suicide than deaths caused by coronavirus
Sean Hannity: “Doctors, I guess, if they had their way, they would probably want to quarantine all of us every day so every person wouldn't die”
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Sean Hannity suggests a crashing economy could cause more deaths from suicide than deaths caused by coronavirus
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From the March 24, 2020, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show:
SEAN HANNITY (HOST): But you can't have a cure that is worse than the problem. In other words, this isn't -- this is now in and of itself a problem, we have to open up at some point.
The president's goal, he mentioned in a town hall on -- a two-hour town hall that he did on Fox News earlier today, that his hope is we're going to go through this 15 day period, he's going to re-assess, but he hopes everything's up and running and open by Easter, which is April the 12th, today being March 24th, 224 days to Election Day -- not that that is what we're talking about at this moment.
And there is a -- a growing sentiment, you know, and maybe a little bit of natural conflict. Doctors, I guess, if they had their way, they would probably want to quarantine all of us every day so every person wouldn't die. Well, if that was the case, we could save a lot of lives every year if nobody ever left their house.
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At some point here, with all the money spent, the money's going to run out. You got to get the country up and working as quickly as possible.
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There was a study -- the president keeps saying this balancing act, we're threading the needle with medicine vs. the economy, and you could tell the mob was outraged when the president said that a prolonged economic shutdown -- for example, could be worse, that the cure could be worse than the problem.
And then he even mentioned -- yeah, you're gonna see a wave of psychological depression, even suicide. Actually was a study that came out, which I thought was very interesting, people are very much very often tied to money. It's just something that you need to understand here. The president -- you know, people get tremendous anxiety, depression, have suicides over things like this, terrible economies, and he's right.
There was -- The New Scientist printed a study, Aaron Reeves at the University of Oxford, part of a team that found the financial crash in '08 linked to an extra 10,000 suicides in Europe and North America.