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Jan 6, 2022Liked by Joel S Hirschhorn

I'm glad to see you grappling with the idea of collateral deaths using numbers. It has seemed likely to me that the stress caused by the public health response to Covid would have brutalized people's health to the point of killing them. Stress is a killer (as our public health authorities very well know....).

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I see that you mentioned stress as a killer, so is suicide brought on by stress. I believe the double masked and triple jabbed folks are on that suicide watch list. I would be stressed if I got the jab and I was walking around worrying what it's doing to my body. I don't want jabbers remorse. It's like waiting for the grim reaper to show up.

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Good point! Contemplating that the vaccines may have harmed them would be too anxiety-provoking for many. Maybe that's an unconscious motivation behind some of the completely irrational pushback a lot of us are getting.

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I looked at the CDC site you linked to, and could only find COVID-19-related mortality. They certainly make a great deal of hay with that. Overall mortality info I could find was for 2020. Perhaps there is a better link?

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