Not sure about that stat, but there is no question there are many suicides and drug overdoses related to public policy around the COVID-19 virus. And the average amount of weight gain in the past two years among Americans, especially the young, cannot bode well for future health outcomes.

My former employer was financially devastated by the pandemic, putting me on the streets. The ensuing 14 months of stress in looking, interviewing, scrambling to adjust the budget… has definitely impacted my and my wife’s health and there are millions of Americans who have gone through similar, lockdown induced struggles.

Everyone I know who have elderly family members in care facilities has seen a huge decline in their loved ones’ cognitive and physical function (and many have simply died in the past 20 months). My parents still live independently, but they feel the lockdowns and lack of human interaction and activity have taken years off their lives.

We won’t have hard numbers for several years, but it seems definite the overall impact of public policy and the lack of emphasis on good health and preventative measures will prove to show more harm than the virus itself.

Who knows if it’s true? Who knows if it has anything to do with the Covid virus or (and/or?) with the vaccination? But it seems strangely high.

In any event, whatever your personal situation, it might be wise to continue to take quercetin (or equivalent, e.g., ivermectin, HCQ—quercetin, I believe, should be more accessible and also cheaper) + zinc and vitamins D3, K, C, B’s and selenium…and perhaps a recommended nasal spray).
(Note, though, that one shouldn’t take too much zinc or selenium; I’m not sure about the zinc dosage; but for selenium, one—but no more than two—Brazil nuts per day is recommended.)

I know many people who seem to want to be able to state that they have had it. So much so that I’ve heard people state things like, “Well, I tested negative, but based on my symptoms I’m SURE I had it,” or, “I felt sick but didn’t bother to get tested but I’m sure it was COVID.”

I also know many people who are nearly pious about the disease not having hit any member of their household and ask very personal, probing questions when we relate tales of anyone we know who has gotten it. It’s very much like an “unclean” vibe.

This is why, if given the opportunity to test from home, at will, I think many will be manic about testing regardless of severity of symptoms. I used to joke that I should have invested in one of the companies that makes home pregnancy kits when I got married. Seemed like every time she brushed her teeth my wife would also do a pregnancy test! 🙂

No idea how or where she got it. Of my kids she is by far the most COVID-cautious. Always wears a mask in public. Has been tied at the hip to her double-vac’ced boyfriend for the past two weeks. He is fine, no COVID.

In the past 2 – 3 weeks many of our most COVID cautious friends and family have had it hit their homes.

That’s a great, real-world example of how at home test kits will cause more harm than good. Many people will want to test themselves daily. There will be no way to meet the demand and a lot of the results will be inaccurate. GIGO.

I really can’t believe it’s changed so much in 4 months since I left. Even this morning more FB posts on people upset that the town’s allotment of N95s and test kits ran out after an hour and half. I just can’t believe the panic level. If the mass psychosis has hit a place like Lebanon, who knows where it will spread.

Here in the Fernandina Beach area, life seems pretty normal. I suspect it may be different in Miami area as about 60% of all the state cases are in Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach counties.

You’ve probably seen news items about the COVID testing panic in your former state– but in case you missed the frenzy in Stamford, here it is: “STAMFORD — For a handful of hours, Stamford was stuck in gridlock.

Long lines streamed down city streets across Shippan, Downtown and the South End as volunteers, civil servants and Stamford employees geared up to give out thousands of free antigen COVID tests amid the nation’s unprecedented groundswell of new cases. . . . Cars jammed the streets surrounding distribution centers at Scalzi, Cummings and Kocziusko parks as residents rushed to get a hold of the 20,000 tests from California-based company ACON Labs across the city. . . . Along with the lines of cars circling all the parks, each site also distributed tests through a walk-up line, and steadily, packs of residents trudged through the cold and mist to secure their boxes. But even the pedestrian effort caused hiccups for the distributors, as residents started hopping out of their cars to join the faster push.”

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/coronavirus/article/Free-COVID-19-tests-means-gridlock-for-Stamford-16743428.php

Photo essay of the gridlock at the link.

Here’s a link to the ACON Labs home test kit mentioned in the article (“can be used on children as young as 2 years old!”). I notice that the test has only an FDA EUA approval:
https://www.aconlabs.com/brands/flowflex/covid-19-antigen-home-test/

In your opinion, what is likely to happen next?

https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/how-are-covid-19-deaths-counted-it-s-complicated

As a general matter, when bad things happen they have multiple causes. See NTSB accident reports for examples.