AGAIN....underestimated,unintended consequences

I found this to be certainly unintended. Evidently some good has come of Covid lockdowns resulting in increased drug use.

"In the case of kidneys, transplant numbers started rising more quickly in 2010 – a clear connection to the ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. In a bittersweet twist of events, younger and healthier organ donors dying from overdoses increased the size of the donor pool significantly, since deceased donors can donate both, not just one, of their kidneys.

Similarly, one in six donor hearts in the U.S. is now coming from a person who died from an overdose."

www.zerohedge.com/medical/over-97000-ame...g-kidney-transplants

As someone with only one kidney, this is good news for me, but I can't say it's really good news. Our worthless leader hasn't mentioned this crisis that he has made much worse with his open border. I wonder when his state media will actually do their jobs and inform their sheep that this problem will likely touch every American sooner than we think.

Rick wrote: [As someone with only one kidney, .

Me too. why is that good news? Are you waiting for a kidney?

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1817188

NOTE 4th paragraph down......relaxed rules regarding acceptability......roll the dice, Hep c?

Blazer Bob wrote:

Rick wrote: [As someone with only one kidney, .

Me too. why is that good news? Are you waiting for a kidney?

I don't need one yet, but if I do, it looks like the supply of kidneys is going up thanks to China and our open border.

Here is one from the Washington Post, unfortunately it is the article is behind a firewall.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/...rged-covid-pandemic/

The headline on today’s column from Dr. Wen reads, “We need to talk about pandemic drinking” and she is certainly shining a light on an important issue. Dr. Wen writes:

We cannot ignore it any longer... A new study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) finds that alcohol-related deaths in 2020 were so high that, for 16- to 64-year-olds, they exceeded the number of deaths from covid-19. Previously, the average annual increase was a little more than 2 percent; between 2019 and 2020, it skyrocketed to more than 25 percent. The largest rise in mortality occurred for people 35 to 44 years old, though rates of death associated with alcohol increased across all age groups.

Does the WaPo appear to be a day late and a dollar short in its reporting? Another example Hunter Biden's laptop.

Wow. One aspect of people not going to bars is they drink more at home. When I was in college, it was expensive to get drunk at the bar. Plus you can give yourself a double or triple at home.

I said from the start that the cure, (locking people down) , would be worse than the virus and it's starting to look that way. I think there will be a lot of mental damage discovered as time goes on, especially in our younger population that suffered the most even though they were least at risk. Between overdoses and suicides, the numbers are getting scary.

www.reuters.com/business/global-supply-c...s-strike-2021-07-23/

AND HERE WE R AGAIN......just a gentle reminder,I stated the end of Q3 into the end of year...FUBARED

Rick wrote: I said from the start that the cure, (locking people down) , would be worse than the virus and it's starting to look that way. I think there will be a lot of mental damage discovered as time goes on, especially in our younger population that suffered the most even though they were least at risk. Between overdoses and suicides, the numbers are getting scary.

Ihe idea is confounding to me (bolded).....is mental weakness more prevalent in today's society? I review history and past events, I understand what our ancestors endured,OR POW'S......a sense of strong mindedness was ALWAYS PRESENT...(I assume MY pov is not common........

Is being an outlier a good thing?
Outliers live their lives outside the comfort zone of the collective group – they are used to being different. This comfort with being uncomfortable often makes it easier for them to pursue ideas that others think are too weird or stand up for what they believe in – even if they are standing alone.Apr 23, 2018