Looking back at "deaths of despair"
The fact that policymakers ignored warnings about "deaths of despair" should be a mark of shame on them.
Everyone knew in 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, that locking down the economy would result in increased "deaths of despair." Here is a look back at what I said about it back then.
Warnings in 2020:
Obviously Hollingsworth is right about opening the economy
Can we please stop assuming bad motives?
Unfair attacks are not a good argument for lockdowns
All of life is risk, including responding to COVID-19
Two years later: