BC residents dying at a faster rate from illicit drugs than Covid-19

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8 points·mrfusion··3 comments

What the submitter thought they were submitting: "See.. Covid risk is overblown! It's a scam!"

What the article actually says: The increase in drug usage (and therefore deaths) is largely because of the stresses caused by the Covid pandemic.

Not to mention: The headline is just plain false. It claims the number of deaths this year from drugs is 1204. The number of Covid deaths in BC this year? 1973.

http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19...

Covid deniers (see submitters' comment history) would be hilarious if they weren't so dangerous.

It appears that you are putting your own feelings toward this headline and making large assumptions about the intent of the submitter or author. I read this article as a signal for how bad the drug problem is and not that COVID is unimportant. I live in Vancouver and anyone who lives here can attest that the scale of drug addiction in this city is on full display. COVID was a catalyst in this problem as the borders being closed, unemployment and isolation sent drug use skyrocketing.

I looked at the posters comment history before making the comment. They have a series of posts against covid measures, zero connection to BC and no history of posting about drug abuse issues that I could find.

As a fellow British Columbian I felt a little offended they were using this issue for political points.

They clearly have no interest in debating the issue (see lack of response here), they just wanted to get that tasty sound bite headline some visibility. Even though it took me only 30 seconds to prove it wrong.

I don’t dispute anything you’ve said, and wouldn’t have commented like this if it weren’t for the commenters history. I like to give the benefit of the doubt in most cases.

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