Posted on 11/05/2020 9:24:48 PM PST by george76
March 28 – very early in the pandemic – an article that I felt at the time received far too little attention. “Drugs, Suicide, and Crime: Empirical Estimates of the Human Toll of the Shutdown” by economists Audrey and Thomas Duncan cited empirical literature on the human toll of economic devastation.
This article forecasted more than 100,000 excess deaths due to drug overdoses, suicide, alcoholism, homicide, and untreated depression – all a result not of the virus but of policies of mandatory human separation, economic downturn, business and school closures, closed medical services, and general depression that comes with a loss of freedom and choice.
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Here we are seven months later and the worst has come true. These two economists should be considered prophets. Sure enough, the Centers for Disease Control has documented a shocking number of excess deaths not from Covid.
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The most startling data concerns the age group 25-44. This is a group with a Covid-related infection fatality rate of 0.0092%, which is to say barely a disease at all for nearly everyone in this group. And yet they are dying at a rate far above what is expected, and mostly from issues not related to Covid. There should not be any excess deaths. Instead we find people dropping dead in ways that are shocking.
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Overall, an estimated 299,028 excess deaths have occurred in the United States from late January through October 3, 2020,
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people have been completely avoiding getting health care this year, for fear of Covid, for fear of contract tracing, and also because many medical services have been forcibly reserved for people with Covid, and to hell with everyone else. Cancer screenings, routine checkups, normal procedures, to say nothing of dentistry ... Now we can see the carnage in plain daylight.
(Excerpt) Read more at aier.org ...
Just collateral damage. Fundamental change, ends justifies the means. They’ve almost got orange man beat. They can start building their totalitarian utopia. President Harris will make it so.
Political response more deadly then the virus
My CA school district today basically announced they will never again offer full time in person instruction. As long as covid is “out there” at ANY LEVEL.
The only options for in person education now are in red states or private school.
Notice, that articles like this are appearing right after the vote?
State Revenues must really suck in the Democrat states. It's time to go back to reality even for them.
DOH!
Yet the school admins., teacher unions , and other government Unions want full wages & benefits from the taxpayers.
Former Australian Senator Cory Bernardi - claims “Great Reset” is Real Agenda behind COVID Panic ..
Lab Coat Tyranny: using “public health” as a rationale to push marxism.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3893355/posts
South Dakota proves that unconstitutional lock-downs are medically pointless.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3892505/posts
Like mail in balloting, locking down the economy was unnecessary and imposed incalculable costs and losses.
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