<p>“our suicide rate is not obnoxiously high.”</p>
<p>This is correct, measured over longer periods. However it certainly was obnoxioualy high last year, which is what has garnered the renewed attention. That this followed several years where there were no suicides there at all, and the unalarming longer-term statistics, sort of gets lost in the shuffle, understandably, when people are reacting to the current events.</p>