An excellent question! (go to 21:35 in The Liberty Report)
This question arises from MSM reports of 300,000 more total deaths this year than last, which came from a
CDC report. First of all, verifying the number of 300,000 (estimate is 299,028) is almost impossible. I tried. Good luck finding those stats. I located a potential CDC page on my own, which is the same webpage cited by the CDC report. It is here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm. Good luck finding total death counts from 2019 and 2020. The CDC did not provide valid specific sources for it's own report.
We already know that there are
so many questions regarding motivations and criteria for counting a death as a COVID death that attributing the actual cause of death is futile. We don't know, and CDC COVID stats are useless, IMHO.
But let's assume that the 300,000 more total deaths is accurate. What could be the causes? Let's brainstorm some potential causes.
The following line from the CDC report should be kept in mind:
Probably not COVID related in that age range (although they would have no problem attributing many of them to COVID).
So what could be potential causes?
- Drug and alcohol increases. It's pretty well established that drug and alcohol consumption has dramatically increased because of shutdowns. Not only would this create additional overdoses and accidents, it will also cause or make worse other health ailments.
- Prison and jail releases due to COVID. We know that there have been massive early releases of prisoners, many of them violent and dangerous. There have been infamous cases of murders just days after release. How many additional murders do we have this year?
- Depression and suicide. We also know that COVID shutdowns have caused an increase of suicides.
- Job losses. Idle hands are the devil's playground. Unfortunately, when people are not busy (and possible desperate), they may turn to less healthy activities, including all of the above potential causes.
Any other potential causes of more deaths this year?
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