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  • Death by Lockdown ( shocking number of excess deaths not from Covid )

    11/05/2020 9:24:48 PM PST · by george76 · 7 replies
    American Institute for Economic Research ^ | November 2, 2020 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
    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...
  • Gaming's rise takes human toll: Compulsive bettors often find financial ruin, not fortune

    12/22/2002 5:05:33 PM PST · by hoosierskypilot · 13 replies · 249+ views
    Courier Journal ^ | 12/22/02 | Grace Schneider
    GAMBLING'S allure has always been the prospect of fast action and easy money. And with the explosion of legalized gaming in Kentucky and Indiana during the past decade and a half, more and more people are being consumed by it. People like Caleb Cooley, a Pikeville, Ky., accountant who stole from clients and served time for theft. And like Phyllis Kruer, a Georgetown, Ind., real-estate agent who committed suicide. A golf club for which she served as board secretary alleged she embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars. While both states have received billions of dollars in gambling revenue that has...