{"id":482147,"date":"2022-08-07T04:32:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/covids-second-death-toll-damns-our-experts\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T04:32:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T01:32:16","slug":"covids-second-death-toll-damns-our-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covids-second-death-toll-damns-our-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"#COVID&#8217;s second death toll damns our &#8216;experts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2738b4f38ff\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2738b4f38ff\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/covids-second-death-toll-damns-our-experts\/#%E2%80%9CCOVIDs_second_death_toll_damns_our_%E2%80%98experts%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;COVID&#8217;s second death toll damns our &#8216;experts&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;COVID&#8217;s second death toll damns our &#8216;experts'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/040220closedpplayground2CS.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>COVID has killed a million-plus Americans. But the disastrous US policy response \u2014 blunt-instrument shutdowns and endless fear-mongering \u2014 has inflicted its own terrible toll, per numbers gathered in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-changed-americans-health-for-the-worse-11659260165?page=1\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One ugly example: Data show a serious spike in deaths from heart attacks (4.1%) and strokes (5.2%) in 2020 over 2019. Why? Likely because policies and rhetoric on isolation and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> distancing caused people to miss doctor visits and avoid hospitals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And US drug-overdose deaths hit a hideous record, topping 107,000 in 2021, up about 15% increase from 2020, which was up nearly 30% from 2019.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen anything like this,\u201d said the Centers for Disease Control staffer in charge of mortality numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Social isolation, job loss and widescale disruption of everything we once took for granted in the name of \u201cslowing the spread\u201d was a driving force here (along with the influx of fentanyl across our southern border under President Joe Biden).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With schools shut, jobs gone remote and everyday interaction policed, mental-health issues also soared. The 18-25 age group saw the worst effect: one dataset shows 9.7% of that group suffering serious mental illness in 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>The gun homicide rate skyrocketed as well, jumping 35% from 2019 to 2020. Guess who bears the brunt? Overwhelmingly people of color, the very group COVID hawks swore they were shutting our kids out of pre-K to protect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>School closures, restrictions on gatherings, commercial shutdowns, mask and vaccine mandates and the endless terror-driving rhetoric were the hallmark of blue-state political leaders like New York\u2019s Andrew Cuomo and California\u2019s Gavin <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>om playing up to their constituencies of urbanites insulated by affluence from their policies\u2019 grim side effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And for what? States that stayed in alarmism mode, like New York, fared no better than less-restrictive states like Florida in overall COVID outcomes. The United States did significantly worse on COVID deaths per 100,000 than Sweden, which never ordered a full lockdown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A million died, largely among the elderly and the immunocompromised. Our smashing of every social bond did nothing to save them. It <em>did<\/em> do massive harm to everyone else, especially young people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Numbers don\u2019t lie \u2014 and on COVID\u2019s second toll they damn our expert class.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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But the disastrous US policy response \u2014 blunt-instrument shutdowns and endless fear-mongering \u2014 has inflicted its own terrible toll, per numbers gathered in a Wall Street Journal report.\u00a0 One ugly example: Data show a serious spike in deaths from heart attacks (4.1%)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":482148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/08\/040220closedpplayground2CS.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[132087,70430,71464,1545,43,6642,73109,67243,116860,70595],"class_list":["post-482147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-6-22","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-cdc","tag-coronavirus","tag-editorial","tag-florida","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-lockdown","tag-mask-mandates","tag-murders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}