A new study led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism reveals the staggering impact of early-pandemic isolation on Americans with substance-abuse problems.
Researchers sifted through death certificates to tally deaths in which alcohol was found to be an underlying or contributing cause. They determined that more than 99,000 people suffered alcohol-related deaths in 2020 — a 25.5 percent spike over the previous year. More adults under 65 died from alcohol-related factors (74,408) than from COVID-19 (74,075) in 2020.
Alcohol-related deaths, ranging from alcohol poisoning to liver disease and accidents, have been crawling upward over the past two decades with an average annual increase of 3.6 percent between 1999 and 2019. But the stark jump from 78,927 deaths in 2019 to 99,017 in 2020 confirms studies showing that people drank more to manage pandemic stress. And it reveals the toll of the disrupted treatment programs and fragmented support networks that were a byproduct of pandemic-mitigation measures. “The assumption is that there were lots of people who were in recovery and had reduced access to support that spring and relapsed,” study author Aaron White told the New York Times.
The numbers are consistent with an overall increase in mortality indirectly linked to COVID. In February, the U.S. passed 1 million excess deaths since the pandemic began — a number that includes confirmed COVID fatalities (which are approaching 1 million) as well as an uptick in deaths from causes including heart disease, hypertension, dementia, and substance abuse. Between May 2020 and April 2021, over 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses.
Remember, everything they did was because they cared about you.
With all of this Science! going around, why haven't we heard how many lives all of these draconian measures have saved? Doesn't that seem like something they would be boasting about if they could? It seems like they would be saying, "Yes, we locked you down and made you wear masks around your family on holidays, but we saved 3 million lives!"
You know why they aren't saying that? Of course you know why they aren't saying that.
Nothing our leaders did made any sense during the pandemic. How did setting curfews keep people from dying from COVID? Think about it: if you wanted to spread people out, wouldn't you encourage people to go out at 3am if they were able? How about WalMart closing early? They have been open 24/7 forever, but then when we needed to spread everybody out so people could social distance, they decided to close for 8 hours out of the day and make everyone go through one entrance. Makes sense, right?
Did you ever observe people's behaviors while they were wearing masks? Did you notice how much they touched their face? What about kids? Did you ever observe their behaviors while they were forced to wear masks? Do you think them constantly touching their face prevented or caused more spread of germs?
They locked everyone in their houses so they wouldn't get sick, and expected them to do what? Watch TV? Listen to the non-stop news reports of how everyone is dying of COVID? That's all we heard for 2 years straight - how everyone was going to die of COVID. If you got sick, you couldn't go to the doctor. If you needed any kind of therapy, that was cancelled. Any preventative procedures, postponed. All because they cared about your health. Remember?
What did they think people were going to do while they were locked in their homes and fed doom-and-gloom through their electronic devices 24/7?
If you look at the above cited report, which obviously isn't headline news, you see exactly what people did: they drank heavily and abused drugs. But, I'm sure that came as a total shock to the caretakers of society.
Again, how many lives do you think the lockdowns and masks saved? Maybe a better way to phrase that questions is: how many excessive deaths did the lockdowns and masks cause?
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