OfWhomIAmChief t1_j9gfaet wrote on February 21, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Reply to comment by down_up__left_right in $200M in City Purchased COVID Gear Auctioned For Just $500,000 by jumbod666

Now do opioid overdose

down_up__left_right t1_j9ggylh wrote on February 21, 2023 at 7:46 PM

Is this reply an argument for being against government policies that would try to end the opioid crisis?

I fail to see how it is an either/or situation.

OfWhomIAmChief t1_j9gz2f1 wrote on February 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM

down_up__left_right t1_j9gzm5y wrote on February 21, 2023 at 10:25 PM

Feel free to elaborate then.

Turbulent_Link1738 t1_j9gkuvo wrote on February 21, 2023 at 8:17 PM

That’s because of the drastic measures. If nothing was done and life continued I’d wager 100,000,000 Americans would have died. It got to a point where 3000 Americans were dying daily.

ifiwereaplatypus t1_j9hrpol wrote on February 22, 2023 at 1:41 AM

Are opioid overdoses resulting in so many people dying that the hospital morgues were full and bodies were placed out on the hospital streets in like freezer trucks? Because that’s what COVID was in 2020 when we went into shut down.

lantonas t1_j9iqf6t wrote on February 22, 2023 at 6:45 AM

Is that why field hospitals at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Old Westbury, and Westchester County Center closed in May of 2020 without seeing a single patient?

For a cost of $320,976,632, plus whatever it cost to tear them down.

ifiwereaplatypus t1_j9j6jd0 wrote on February 22, 2023 at 10:20 AM

I’m not sure if your comment is addressing mine… here’s a non-pay walled article if you need your memory to be refreshed: https://time.com/5812569/covid-19-new-york-morgues/