This from Richard Cronin:

For how long, and at what cost, does the lockdown persist ?

Read up about the well documented studies of "Deaths of Despair”. Suicides due to loss of businesses, depression, drug overdoses, alcoholism, domestic abuse from helplessness and frustration. It is well documented that a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 3.3% increase in suicides. In our current situation that totals over 75,000 vs. the latest CDC estimate of 60,000 deaths from the Chinese Communist Party Virus. That is, the CCP Virus.

A small business owner who has devoted his life to his business and extended family of employees, lays off his workers, closes shop, and goes home to eat his gun.

Following the Brenner (1976) model, these figures all reflect the estimated cumulative impact of an increase in unemployment on mortality over a five-year lag period.

Lower bound. If the unemployment rate increases by 5 points as a result of the various lockdowns, then 294,170 additional lives will be lost, not from coronavirus, but from deaths of despair.

Mid-range. If the unemployment rate increases by 16.5 points (as predicted by Treasury Secretary Mnuchin), then 970,761 additional lives will be lost to deaths of despair.

Beyond suicides there are the shattered families with loss of the primary earner as well as lost months in education, training, church attendance, all the social mechanisms for families and communities which are also the life line to the elderly.

Dr. Fauci has said no relief until we have a vaccine. Bill Gates is throwing all of his money and influence echoing Fauci’s remarks. Of course Gates would. That’s what he does. Vaccines for everybody, for any conceivable malady. See link.

The loss of Freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Yes, the Bill of Rights include Religious Practice, Speech, Assembly, as well as Freedom of Movement — all upheld in multiple forms by repeated Supreme Court decisions.

How about farmers dumping milk because the farm workers are better off not working and on forced unemployment than working their normal job ?

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