CDC Mortality flu each state https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/flu_pneumonia_mortality/flu_pneumonia.htm
“ More than 600 of the nation’s physicians sent a letter to President Trump this week calling the coronavirus shutdowns a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing negative health consequences” to millions of non COVID patients.
“The downstream health effects…are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error,” according to the letter initiated by Simone Gold, M.D., an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles.
“Suicide hotline phone calls have increased 600%,” the letter said. Other silent casualties: “150,000 Americans per month who would have had new cancer detected through routine screening.”
Cui bono? “ Masks may confuse that message and give people a false sense of security. If masks had been the solution in Asia, shouldn’t they have stopped the pandemic before it spread elsewhere?”
Who benefits? “ Now setting aside respirators, if your workplace is permitting or even requiring use of some form of a loose-fitting paper or cloth mask (like a non-N95 surgical or dental mask), or even a generic face covering like a bandana or one of the DIY masks that CDC has been promoting for general use by the public, none of those are considered to be a respirator, AND none of those are even considered to be PPE. As a general rule, these loose fitting masks (i.e., there is no seal around the mouth and nose) do not provide a reliable level of protection for the wearer of the mask from inhaling airborne particles. They are intended really to protect others around the wearer from secretions by the wearer of the mask. In principle, my mask protects you, and your mask protects me, so they do add safety value in the workplace, but they are a safety control (like a sneeze guard), not PPE.”
COVID-19 OSHA FAQs about Respirators, Face Masks, and Face Coverings
A connection? Suicide rates are up due to the many facets of the lockdown. “ People living at altitude are exposed to hypobaric hypoxia, the low partial pressure of oxygen (ppO2) at altitude. Young (2013) suggested that the elevated suicide rates observed at altitude could arise from hypobaric hypoxia-induced changes that cause more clinical depression in residents at altitude. ”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4376288/
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