{"id":215942,"date":"2020-11-03T08:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T08:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215942"},"modified":"2020-11-05T07:38:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:38:27","slug":"new-cdc-numbers-show-lockdowns-deadly-toll-on-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215942","title":{"rendered":"New CDC Numbers Show Lockdown\u2019s Deadly Toll On Young People"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/strong> \u00a0Amanda Prestigiacomo<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Daily Wire Oct 22, 2020<\/h1>\n

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u00a0revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Wednesday that young adults aged 25-44 years saw the largest increase in \u201cexcess\u201d deaths from previous years, a stunning 26.5% jump.<\/span><\/p>\n

The notable increase even surpassed the jump in excess deaths of older Americans, who are at much higher risk of COVID-19 fatality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moreover, according to the CDC, 100,947 excess deaths were not linked to COVID-19 at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since such young people are at very low risk for COVID-19 fatality \u2014 20-49-year-olds have a 99.98% chance of surviving the virus<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, per\u00a0CDC<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0data \u2014 it has been suggested that the shocking increase in deaths is largely attributable to deaths of \u201cdespair,\u201d or deaths linked to our \u201ccure\u201d for the disease: lockdown measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, one of the most vocal and earliest\u00a0proponents of lockdown measures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, admitted this much during a Wednesday news appearance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI would suspect that a good portion of the deaths in that younger cohort were deaths due to despair, due to other reasons,\u201d admitted Gottlieb (see video below).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen a spike in overdoses, and I would suspect that a good portion of those excess deaths in that younger cohort were from drug overdoses and other deaths that were triggered by some of the implications of we\u2019ve gone through to try to deal with COVID-19.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Critics\u00a0roundly<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0mocked<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>President Donald Trump early in the pandemic for warning about excess deaths of despair under lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n

Public health experts and others are now increasingly\u00a0calling<\/a>\u00a0for an end to heavy-handed measures, citing a growing body of evidence that such policies are having drastic negative impacts on Americans\u2019 physical and mental health.<\/span><\/p>\n

Possibly the starkest impact has been the worsening of another U.S. health crisis: the\u00a0opioid epidemic<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. Deaths from opioids were already rising as initial estimates from the CDC show 2019 to be the worst year on record with roughly 71,000 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n

The crisis has worsened across more than 40 states during the pandemic, according to an analysis of local news reports by the\u00a0American Medical Association<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the start of the year to the end of August, preliminary counts of overdose deaths have jumped 28% in Colorado, 30% in Kentucky, and 9% in Washington state over the same time frame last year,\u00a0according<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to The Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n

Calls to suicide hotlines\u00a0spiked<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0amid the pandemic as people, isolated at the direction of public health officials and scared of contracting COVID-19, suffered anxiety attacks and mental breakdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Calls to the Disaster Distress Helpline, which offers emotional support to people amid a natural disaster, jumped 890% in April compared to April 2019. Local law enforcement and health agencies in places such as Fresno, California, and Los Alamos, New Mexico, are\u00a0reporting<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>significant increases in death by suicide, sometimes as high as 70% in a month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many distressed callers reached out after losing a job or even their house after government-mandated closures plunged the U.S. to its highest\u00a0unemployment rate<\/strong><\/span><\/a> since the Great Depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay-at-home orders devastated small businesses and pushed an estimated 8 million Americans into poverty, according to a recent\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>from Columbia University.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end of August, for example, Yelp\u00a0found<\/a>\u00a0that<\/strong><\/span> 97,966 small businesses were forced to close their doors permanently because of lockdown restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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"I would suspect that a good portion of the deaths in that younger cohort were due to despair, due to other reasons. We've seen a spike in overdoses," says @ScottGottliebMD<\/a> on a CDC report finding 25-44 year olds are being hit hard trying to deal with the #COVID19<\/a> pandemic. pic.twitter.com\/IW9L4YwaTq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) October 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n