* 915 shooting incidents that killed at least 430 people and left at least 1,007 wounded in the same timeframe.
* More than 93,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020, according to provisional data released by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. That’s a 29.4% increase from the 72,151 deaths projected for 2019.
2021 is shaping up to break drug overdose records, right along with murders.
Do you want to tell me again which lives are mattering here? I don’t want to hear it, not for one more second, that we are trying to save lives. How can anyone say that when we all seem awfully concerned about who dies from this virus but not so concerned with people getting shot in broad daylight by kids on scooters or people overdosing alone in the streets!?!
Do those deaths COUNT?
The whole world seems to have gotten collective amnesia since the goal of “flattening the curve” was promised as the goal for the lockdowns. Look at the chart above, that curve is beyond flat. It’s bottomed out. More people are getting murdered weekly than dying from COVID. It’s a fact! It isn’t political, it isn’t partisan, it isn’t twisted. It is MATH, the universal language and the most basic of truths. So, if 230 deaths is going to scare you into your house, are you going to hole up to avoid being the next mass shooting casualty? Are you never going to go to New York City, the South Side of Pittsburgh or NOLA? Because just last week, more people died of violence there than of COVID. Does only one kind of DEATH scare you? And, if we have decided to all live so afraid of death that we have become afraid to live and emboldened to tell others how they should live or die … then, I need to be informed that everything that was said previously is a lie and that I no longer have one ounce of freedom.
Which deaths matter?
The media keeps talking about increased “cases”. But, they are also saying that the Delta variant is more highly contagious, testing has increased and the vaccinated can get sick, but not so sick they will die. These are THEIR talking points. THEIRS. And, by their own words, freaking people out with words like “surge” or continued threats of additional lockdowns and the return of the masking is absolutely ludicrous and people are beginning to see it. Bring the tickers back on the side of the broadcasts. But, don’t track COVID cases, track current COVID deaths. And, while you track those deaths … track the murders, the drug overdoses, the car accidents, the lightening strikes, the cancers, the heart diseases, the diabetes.
Track ALL the things that people do to themselves and one another that can cause their deaths. Track it ALL. Numbers and math never lie, but people do in the way they present them.
And, this is what the math tells you … you had more of a chance of getting shot last week than dying of COVID. A sad reality brought to you ironically by the hatred, division and chaos the virus, the policies and the lockdowns have brought us.
Which deaths matter? Which numbers matter? How much more are we willing to sacrifice to get to zero deaths from COVID? Because zero was NEVER the deal. And, if you lied about that, too … then, it’s time to be honest and give people the choice on how they want to live and die from this point forward.
I choose life, I have always been on the side of life … it just seems we all have different definitions of what living really is.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/07/gun-violence-rising-united-states-archive.html
https://health.ri.gov/data/drugoverdoses/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/nation-fire-weeks-glance-gun-violence-ripping-america/story?id=78852666
Pretty Political 