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Jan 17, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

I'd like to blame ODs or suicide but those would be, not expected, but put into a category. What is being hinted at is some categories are exploding that shouldn't. Insurance guy doesn't care about suicide because they don't pay out for those. Do they pay out for OD? Because that seems like it would be "during comission of a crime" which is usually disqualified.

This is a drip, drip, drip. That insurance guy was the opening shot. They said "just leak the story out somewhere "small" (compared to the majors) so people have an idea of what's coming. It's coming more because the end of year numbers are going and it's going to be bad. I guess we should expect to hear how excess death is good somehow soon.

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Significant "noncovid" increases in 2020 too, tho lower & less dramatic. A lot of ODs & suicides. So factor in piss poor "public health response & it's still covid-related.

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Now I think a lot of this is attributable to lock downs (and maybe masks for the pneumonia?) but I wonder how that map compares with the ‘bad batches’ distribution the daily expose found?

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