Lockdowns were controversial from the start. We were told it would take 2 weeks to flatten the curve and now, more than two years later, places are still dealing with Covid restrictions and people are in a worse spot than they ever would have been without the lockdowns.
More evidence of this absolute disaster has come out of a study from the Journal of American Medical Association shows that more people under the age of 65 died of alcohol-related issues than from Covid!
Let me say that again: If you are ANYONE under the age of 65 you were more likely to drink yourself to death or be involved in an alcohol-related accident than you were to die of Covid-19.
According to the study:
74,408 alcohol-related deaths among Americans ages 16 to 64 while, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were only 67,991 deaths among Americans under 65 that included COVID-19 as an underlying cause.
And these are the WITH Covid numbers, not the more accurate OF Covid numbers.
The increase in deaths from alcohol from 2019 to 2020 was more than 25%.
Donald Trump said early on in the pandemic, along with others, that we cannot let the cure be worse than the disease.
But for people under 65 with low rates of death from Covid, that's exactly what happened.
What a telling statistic.
It wasn't just alcohol deaths, either. Opioid deaths saw a huge increase in 2020 as well.
Previous reports suggest the number of opioid overdose deaths increased 38% in 2020, with a 55% increase in deaths involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl. There were similar increases in the number of deaths in which alcohol contributed to overdoses of opioids (40.8%) and, specifically, synthetic opioids (59.2%).
Deaths involving alcohol reflect hidden tolls of the pandemic. Increased drinking to cope with pandemic-related stressors, shifting alcohol policies, and disrupted treatment access are all possible contributing factors. Whether alcohol-related deaths will decline as the pandemic wanes, and whether policy changes could help reduce such deaths, warrants consideration.
The cure was worse than the disease.
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