CDC: One quarter of young adults contemplated suicide during pandemic

I'm not sure what the relevance of a statistic on "contemplating" suicide is. If you ask adults, I'd expect the number who would say they ever "contemplated" suicide when they were younger would be close to 100%.

I remember in the 80's, it was common for high schools to claim that up to 50% of students thought about suicide. It's one of the reasons there was an explosion in in-school counseling services and posters and PSA's on radio, etc...

There was an article in the local newspaper a few months ago stating that in the months that followed the start of lockdown, suicides in my state were down about 40%.

I'm curious how this compares to normal, and other crises like 2008.

One quarter of which group?