Paul, who died on Sept. 22, 2020, was one of about 2,245 people in New York City to die of an opioid overdose during the COVID-19 pandemic between March 2020 and March 2021, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This was up nearly 40% from the previous year, according to CDC provisional data.
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/10/25/an-epidemic-inside-of-a-pandemic--drug-overdose-deaths-spike-amid-covid-19-crisis
It is clear that Democrat policies destroyed the economy and lead to massive increases in homelessness, mental health problems, overdoses, unemployment, crime, massive government spending and a healthcare worker shortage.
People like Trump and DeSantis could see the downside of the Democrats policies from the very beginning and tried to fight them.
This is an indisputable fact.
The Biden admin put all their eggs in one basket and said vaccination alone will take us out of the pandemic.
Now this;
(Reuters) - Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that of the 43 cases attributed to Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated. Fourteen of them had also received a booster, although five of those cases occurred less than 14 days after the additional shot before full protection kicks in.
While the numbers are very small, they add to growing concerns.....
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16115318/
The isolation, lockdowns, quarantines and the ruptures of connections to community ushered in by COVID policies is causing a vast mental health crisis in the US, so severe that therapists are turning away large numbers of patients needing counseling:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/16/well/mental-health-crisis-america-covid.html
That is so freaking sad!!
Out here in Nevada the "street people" are everywhere. I call them street people rather than using the word homeless cause there are places for them to stay.
The Committee To Unleash Prosperity study compared state performance on metrics including the economy, education, and mortality from the virus, and examined how states and their respective governments handled the pandemic response.
"Shutting down their economies and schools was by far the biggest mistake governors and state officials made during COVID, particularly in blue states," Steve Moore, co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, told Fox News Digital. "We hope the results of this study will persuade governors not to close schools and businesses the next time we have a new virus variant."
New York, California, New Jersey and Illinois were among the worst in dealing with the coronavirus, performing "poorly on every measure," the report said.
These states "had high age-adjusted death rates; they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states," the report added.
States like Utah, Nebraska, Vermont, Montana, South Dakota and Florida — all governed by Republicans — received the highest scores in the study, first through sixth, respectively. In fact, 13 of the top 15 states in the study are governed by Republicans. (Montana had a Democratic governor until the 2020 election.)
The study also found no correlation in those states that enacted stringent travel, vocation and dining restrictions with lower death totals.
"The study verifies other studies which have found that locking down businesses, stores, churches, schools, and restaurants had almost no impact on health outcomes across states," the report determined. "States with strict lockdowns had virtually no better performance in COVID death rates than states that remained mostly open for business."Throughout the first two years of the pandemic, liberal states were widely applauded for their restrictions while conservative states were lambasted.
But according to the study his state, and others with widespread lockdowns "had high age-adjusted death rates, they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states."
Meanwhile, as the nation continues to emerge from COVID, even in Democrat run cities, Dr. Anthony Fauci, of all people, is telling Americans it's time to assess their own personal risk of the virus. Dr. Fauci, a man so risk averse he wouldn’t place a bet on the sun rising in the East.
While it's great that Fauci and other leaders are finally coming around to the idea of living with risk so as not to destroy the entire economy and children’s education, what the study makes clear is that this should have been our government’s attitude all along. It will not be easy for former proponents of strict lockdown to accept this data, but then again they were the ones insisting we "follow the science."
But according to the study his state, and others with widespread lockdowns "had high age-adjusted death rates, they had high unemployment and significant GDP losses, and they kept their schools shut down much longer than almost all other states."
Meanwhile, as the nation continues to emerge from COVID, even in Democrat run cities, Dr. Anthony Fauci, of all people, is telling Americans it's time to assess their own personal risk of the virus. Dr. Fauci, a man so risk averse he wouldn’t place a bet on the sun rising in the East.
While it's great that Fauci and other leaders are finally coming around to the idea of living with risk so as not to destroy the entire economy and children’s education, what the study makes clear is that this should have been our government’s attitude all along. It will not be easy for former proponents of strict lockdown to accept this data, but then again they were the ones insisting we "follow the science."
These studies are important because they all show the same thing which is that the lockdowns were a mistake to begin with, and that by maintaining them long after their original purpose of keeping hospitals from overcrowding was achieved, harmed the lives of millions of Americans.
Nobody is expecting a round of apologies from the Democrats who got this all so horribly wrong, their response will be very vague and nuanced, focused on what we couldn’t have known at the time. But many people did know at the time, including world renowned scientists who were basically censored by our leaders and by big tech platforms.
Just as important as assuring the obvious, that lockdowns can’t be repeated, is for us to examine closely how and why so many terrible decisions were made in our bluest states. Did the personal desire for power influence those governors? Was it just inchoate fear that led them to shut it all down?
Whatever it was, the debate is now over. New York was wrong, Florida was right. And everyone needs to accept it.
The Imperial Palace?
First three found on Google search. The IP has gone from Quad (2007) to now The Linq.
https://www.salvationarmysouthernnevada.org/
https://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/Residents/Neighborhood-Services/Homeless-Services
https://www.catholiccharities.com/service_details/emergency-shelter/
Established in 1995,
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