@hightor,
Quote:that stifled attempts to combat the outbreak.
Only there is no outbreak.
The numbers don't add up, even
in China.
How many people are dying, or have died of legal opiate addiction?
I don't see any hullaballoo about those people. All preventable deaths, too.
2018 data shows that every day, 128 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids.
The misuse of and addiction to opioids—including prescription .
From 1999 to 2017, more than 702,000 people have died from a drug overdose. In 2017, more than 70,000 people died from drug overdoses, making it a leading cause of injury-related death in the United States. Of those deaths, almost 68% involved a prescription or illicit opioid.
All we are hearing about coronovirus is "potential deaths" and if you look to the article linked to above, those predictions are panic-button knee-jerk reactionary estimates.
No wonder Hi and co are clinging to them, like they're life rafts. LOL.