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Wisconsin commits state approved suicide!

william smith
2 min readMay 14, 2020

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Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one’s own death. Mental disorders, including depression, bipolar disorder, autism, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse — including alcoholism and the use of benzodiazepines — are risk factors. In the case of Wisconsin it was likely the alcohol.

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In epidemiology, the basic reproduction number (sometimes called basic reproductive ratio, or incorrectly basic reproductive rate, and denoted R0, pronounced R nought or R zero can be thought of as the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection.These fluctuations reflect how different behaviors combined with the disease’s inherent characteristics can slow the spread of Covid-19 — or speed up the outbreak.

If the “R0” value is less than one, the spread of the disease is slowing and will likely peter out over time. However, a value higher than one means it will spread to more and more…

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william smith
william smith

Written by william smith

Husband for 49 years. Dad forever! Very lucky man.

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