Last week, the British Columbia coroner’s office reported that 170 people had died in that province from street-drug overdoses in May. At time of writing, the official death toll from COVID-19 in British Columbia was 168. B.C.’s grisly overdose toll ought to put the COVID-19 lockdown in stark perspective as well. And the stresses of the lockdown were likely to cause more people to use opioids. Many bien-pensant Canadians — disproportionately those with backyards, according to my non-peer-reviewed research — are clearly very proud of these extreme lockdown procedures.

Source: National Post June 16, 2020 00:33 UTC