Excessive drinking caused nearly 500 deaths per day during pandemic, CDC says

ktla ^ | 03/01/2024 | Jas Kang

[RetiredTexasVet]

So the CDC admits it caused the problem by the lockdowns and enforced isolation.

[nuke_road_warrior]

Excessive drinking caused nearly 500 deaths per day during pandemic, CDC says

Let's make alcohol illegal, that worked so well the last time we tried it.

[gov_bean_ counter]

All by design…

[roving]

I went to work during the whole so-called pandemic. None of us wore masks. We were told to, but by the first week, nobody was wearing them. The people who were isolated wanted to be self-isolated. My life didn’t change at all.

[roving]

I have noticed a lot of the people who rubbed our nose into it for not getting a shot are no longer with us.

[peggybac]

There were online meetings.

[Fuzz]

My life and the lives of my family changed. People we loved died.

[peggybac]

I worked during the pandemic as well. It didn’t effect my life either but there were (and still are) online meetings.

[Persevero]

Online is not equivalent.

[peggybac]

You aren’t physically together but seeing many faces online, all sharing experience, strength, and hope, was a great alternative. There were also BB and Step meetings as well. And, of course, keeping in touch with your sponsor, daily if needed, is always important. My thinking from Day 1 was, if you want to drink you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

[SamAdams76]

Yes they were.

[Cold_Red_Steel]

I remember a specific case in Florida where a motorcycle fatality was coded as Covid. Now they have “Asymptomatic Positives.” Imagine if they tested everyone, with our without symptoms, for flu. How big of a pandemic would we find?

[Lizavetta]

Were liquor stores considered “essential” businesses allowed to stay open?

I lived in California during the pandemic (until we moved out of state in 12/20) and yes, liquor stores, donut shops, Jamba Juices, pot dispensaries, etc. were exempt from the lockdown because they were "essential."

Wal-Mart, Target i.e. big donors, were also allowed to stay open because they were "essential." Mom and pop hardware stores, gardening centers, clothing stores, toy stores, etc. who sold THE SAME PRODUCTS as Wal-Mart and Target were NOT essential and thus were forced to close.

I can't think about this fact too often because it makes me enraged not only how unfair and patently illogical it was but how freaking obvious it was an effort to eliminate competitors of the corporates (again, political donors) who were allowed to remain open while the little guys got squashed.

[EEGator]

They were not anonymous, and many were trolled and hacked.

[BipolarBob]

I don’t see Sweden mentioned in the article.

[Celtic Conservative]

Yes. At least in my home state pharmacies were considered vital. And almost all had beer, wine and liquor

CC

[Celtic Conservative]

I medically retired just before covid from law enforcement. My mental health actually got better.

CC

[gitmo]

I had some surgery in the middle of the “pandemic”. I was in the hospital for a week. On the last night, they whisked me out of my room and moved me into a room in the COVID ward.

Several doctors have told me they did that so they could collect federal money because I was a COVID patient.

[peggybac]

The private ones I knew of weren’t. That’s a shame. I also know of meetings in homes.

[MinorityRepublican]

Sweden had no restrictions. Except to limit social gatherings to no more than 50 people. So by large, life was normal in Sweden while most of the world was shut down (I guess Africa didn’t count).