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Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows

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Re: Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows

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>You’re coming across like you’re trying to miss the point. My response needs to be read as a response to nautilius's attempt to interpret psychlops' root comment.

Yeah, that still doesn't change that impression, though.

I don't understand. My comment is to show that a catalyst can be a cause. How is everyone else reading it?

Re: Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows

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Many people have never realized that self-destruction can feel liberating.

The "liberation" from self destruction is more of a temporary numbness, a borrowed liberation from tomorrow, that disappears once the hangover starts clearing up. It's a false sense of liberation. Speaking from experience.

I was not implying that that feeling was good or advocating for it. Just that that feeling appears, even if misguided, and we need to understand it to understand self-destruction loops

Re: Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows

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These are pretty often contraindicated in cases like this, especially when the patient is also managing anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds.

Are you a doctor?

No. I did attend medical school a while back though, when I certainly knew more about the specific reactions involved here.

Re: Alcohol-related deaths spiked during the pandemic, a study shows

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Yes, sadly it appears this is likely the case. It appears that the reaction to the virus has possibly caused so much more harm than the virus itself.

> It appears that the reaction to the virus has possibly caused so much more harm than the virus itself Too early to know. It’ll take years before we know the full consequences of the anti-vaxx movement.

Not according to a number of experts it isn't.

Like you said, time will tell. The enquiry into it is just starting up in my country.

I'm sure experts from all sides will get together, and see what went wrong.

"Lockdowns Cost More Lives Than They Saved and Must Not Happen Again, Scientists Tell MPs"

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/30/lockdowns-cost-more-live...

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