From News 19 in Alabama:
Madison County Coroner reports overdose death numbers stabilizing
Madison County coroner Tyler Berryhill tells News 19 that numbers of drug overdose deaths are coming down from the height of the pandemic.
Throughout the coarse of the pandemic, overdose deaths in Madison County were pretty high. Berryhill said for about 60-75 days between April and June, Madison County was averaging one death every 1.5 days.
Berryhill says it is important to realized rug overdoses happen every day, but now the death rate from them are slowing down.
Now, the county is back to ‘typical numbers’ with one death every 5 days.
News 19 asked [Wendy Reeves, Interim Executive Director for the Partnership for a Drug-Free Community] what caused the spike in overdose deaths during the pandemic. She relayed it to a few different theories.
She said one of the other issues is the amount of isolation during the pandemic.
“A lot of times people are suffering from substance use disorder, there is a sense of isolation that they have and when you put isolation on top of that, it really compounds the problem,” said Reeves.
Madison County was averaging 1.5 deaths per day for two-and-a-half months from April to June.
That is is over 100 deaths due to overdoses during the spring. From the beginning of the COVID until today, there have only been 92 deaths in Madison County.
In fact, during that same period of April through June, Madison County was averaging less than one death per day from COVID.
Lockdown stress deaths outpaced COVID deaths in Madison County for overdoses alone.
We don’t have data on suicide during that same period, but I suspect that it trends the same as ODs.
The Lockdowns supposedly reduced the number of COVID deaths but paid for them with ODs.
This is just one county in Alabama. I have the feeling that many other counties in America, ones that don’t contain high population density megalopolises, are probably the same. When the dust settles and the data comes pouring in, I believe we will discover that outside a few major cities like New York, where people are packed in assholes-to-elbows, that the lockdowns cost more lives than they saved.
“coarse”
Layers, and layers, of editorial oversight.
What else did they get wrong?
3rd paragraph, first sentence. Apparently rug overdoses are just as deadly as drug overdoses.
Smell checker slips bad grammar bye lazy editors. – a headline we should see but won’t.
I don’t remember where I saw it, but I’ve seen reports that deaths from overdoses and more obvious suicides outnumber the flu deaths by 10 to 1.
I’ve been trying to find and track what the other costs of the Kung Flu have been, because there are always other costs. Something as radical as shutting down the entire country has to have costs, but if the only thing they track is (first) deaths and (now) positive tests, that’s all they’ll ever see. They’ll never see how many people they killed.
The real test is not a spike in overdoses or suicides. It is whether the number is measurably higher than average for that time of year.
Any number of factors could be the cause of a spike in overdoses. However, it is only significant if it is much higher than average for any other year.
I know this, in my State, the suicide numbers are going to be much higher this year, and the only factor that is in play is these lockdowns. I have no way of knowing how many addicts in recovery will relapse.
You do not protect the vulnerable by creating millions of more vulnerable.
One death every 1.5 days. Not 1.5 deaths every day.
Now, that still makes about 60 people over the course of three months — triple the “normal” OD rate of one every five days — and makes up about 2/3 of the total deaths.
Some day someone is going to slog through the massive amount of data and calculate the number of “non-COVID COVID deaths” (i.e. the number of deaths caused by the lockdowns and not the virus), and I believe it will far outpace the number of lives lost to the virus, probably by at least an order of magnitude.
And that’s not even getting into the number of livelihoods lost, businesses closed forever, economic damage, etc.
Per ADPH numbers, the total number of confirmed deaths to Covid as of July 1: 7.
They created 25-38 excess deaths because of the lockdowns. 60-75 days with an average OD every 1.5 days (40-50 deaths) and Pre-shutdown average of 1 OD every 5 days (12-15 deaths over the same amount of time).
All while Huntsville Hospital CEO David Spillers was crying crocodile tears about how overrun the Huntsville Hospital system was . . . after furloughing a couple thousand workers. Now that asshole is trying to get FEMA to pay for an upgrade to one of the hospitals he oversees. The reason? Because the ICU was always full before the Rona, so now they want FEMA to pay for adding the additional ICU capacity.
To hell with these people. They killed more than they saved.