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Excessive drinking caused nearly 500 deaths per day during pandemic, CDC says
ktla ^ | 03/01/2024 | Jas Kang

Posted on 03/02/2024 12:22:51 PM PST by BenLurkin

Loneliness, depression, and mental health issues also spiked during a time when most people were asked to self-isolate.

Alcohol consumption and deaths also went up during that time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new report by the CDC found that there were roughly 488 deaths per day during the pandemic due to excessive alcohol drinking in 2020-2021.

“Stress, loneliness, and social isolation; and mental health conditions might also have contributed to the increase in deaths from excessive alcohol use during the Covid-19 pandemic,”

During 2016 and 2017, there were 137,927 alcohol-related deaths nationally. For 2020 and 2021, that number climbed to 178,307, according to the report.

Excessive alcohol consumption-related deaths went up by 35% amongst women during those two time periods. In comparison, for men, there was an increase of 27% in deaths over the same time period.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid; lockdown
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1 posted on 03/02/2024 12:22:51 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Sweden had it right.


2 posted on 03/02/2024 12:24:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: BenLurkin

But I’m sure they were chalked up as COVID deaths.


3 posted on 03/02/2024 12:24:58 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Telepathic Intruder

My understanding is that anyone who died with Covid in their system was counted as a Covid death. Don’t know if that’s true across the board but pretty sure it was the case in many jurisdictions.


4 posted on 03/02/2024 12:26:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

I know, well knew, two.

No meetings for people with problems.


5 posted on 03/02/2024 12:26:56 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

But hospitals reported the deaths as CoVid-19 related death to college $20,000.00 from the federal government.


6 posted on 03/02/2024 12:28:21 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: BenLurkin

Ya don’t say! Quelle surprise!


7 posted on 03/02/2024 12:29:44 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: BenLurkin

AFAIC, the NIH/NIAID, FDA, CDC, the DNC and big pharma are responsible for those deaths by creating a culture of fear, needless hysteria and widespread general oppression in enforcing rules, ALL aimed at changing an election. Monsters.


8 posted on 03/02/2024 12:31:01 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: BenLurkin
Excessive pandemic caused nearly 500 deaths per day during drinking, Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris say.
9 posted on 03/02/2024 12:31:18 PM PST by Thistledew (Prepare, for a future without Biden?)
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To: BenLurkin

If you are going to the bar, you are not isolating.


10 posted on 03/02/2024 12:39:26 PM PST by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther

I’m not sure if you know this, but you can get drunk at home.


11 posted on 03/02/2024 12:42:19 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

A friend had just had a heart problem diagnosed when the lockdowns hit. They wouldn’t give her an appointment to treat it because they’d shut down to just deal with Covid. Remember flattening the curve? She made it several weeks, then died suddenly. I’m guessing that the way the government reacted to Covid may have killed as many people indirectly as Covid killed directly. That’s probably before we take into account the still unreported effects of the vaccine. We probably will be having effects from the vaccine for the next fifty years.


12 posted on 03/02/2024 12:50:02 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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That report dances around and does not cover the totality of what happened. People unraveled - the violence, the suicides & attempted suicides every way imaginable. People staying stoned, high on narcotics, overdosing. Clinics slamming shut with no backup plans for care of the chronically ill, creating collateral casualties due to lack of treatment. There were even car wrecks with injuries and fatalities due to that. I know of a dialysis patient who faded out while behind the wheel, went off the roadway into the side of a building due to inability to receive care. The tally in suffering from that reckless ordeal is huge, and not a soul has been held accountable for it.
 
 

13 posted on 03/02/2024 12:54:50 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: BenLurkin

Were liquor stores considered “essential” businesses allowed to stay open?


14 posted on 03/02/2024 12:58:15 PM PST by fwdude (.When unarmed Americans are locked up for protesting a stolen election, you know it was stolen.)
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To: BenLurkin

Pfizer working on a new vaxxine for that.


15 posted on 03/02/2024 1:02:28 PM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: BenLurkin

We were raised on an isolated farm and learned to love the loneliness. We did well and are still doing well.


16 posted on 03/02/2024 1:02:43 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Or vaccines


17 posted on 03/02/2024 1:09:44 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: lapsus calami

“...and not a soul has been held accountable for it.”

Not true. God is keeping track. Some of those responsible have already faced the ultimate judgement for their crimes.


18 posted on 03/02/2024 1:14:42 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: fwdude

They tried to shut down liquor stores near me (Denver area).
It lasted about 20 minutes.


19 posted on 03/02/2024 1:48:46 PM PST by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: BenLurkin

Deep States worldwide have killed far, far more people than the coof...


20 posted on 03/02/2024 1:54:18 PM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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