Marc Thiessen: ‘How Many More Deaths’ Will We Have Because of the ‘Wreckage We Wreaked on Our Economy?’

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THIESSEN: “But look, we also have to keep in mind that there are massive costs not just to the pandemic but to the lockdown, and not just economic costs, Sandra, but health costs. Think of all the people who are not getting treated for non-COVID illnesses. There’s a study out that says one in four cancer patients have had their treatment delayed. People who have cardiac symptoms are not going into the hospitals. There are doctors who say, in the 'Journal of the Medical Association', that the non-COVID deaths will be worse than the COVID deaths. And then you have depths of despair, alcoholism, suicide, chronic liver disease. We were experiencing a pandemic of deaths of despair before the COVID pandemic, 158,000 people died in 2018, more than died of COVID. How many more deaths of despair are we going to have because of the wreckage we wreaked on our economy. So we have to take those people’s lives into account as well."