Deaths from Non-natural Causes such as drug overdoses, suicides, and homicides
Briand provides a graph like this for all 50 US States plus New York City, showing weekly deaths with lines of different colors for each season. However, in this case the graph is for the entire United States, but only includes deaths from non-natural causes such as suicides, drug overdoses, and homicides. The green line shows mortality for the season 2019-20, and it shows a striking increase in weekly non-natural deaths in May, June, July and August of 2020. Increased drug overdoses, suicides, and homicides are caused by psychological and societal challenges, and the unusually large number in the summer of 2020 is most likely due to the overly aggressive social isolation protocols which caused economic and social turmoil. This was also highlighted in the analysis of Canadian mortality data by Rancourt et al which found increased deaths in young males in Canada during the same time period. Rancourt et al analyze this data in detail, stating "We note an anomalous mass mortality of young males in Canada… in summer 2020 and into the fall (Figure 7b). This ignored and silent epidemic is most likely not due to any viral respiratory disease, and merits an independent investigation in its own right.” (Page 41)
Even though the seven states that never issued stay-at-home orders did not have increased peak mortality over prior years, many of them still had this late summer rise. Here are links to the graphs to the seven states who attempted to resist the social-isolation mandates: Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
Briand provides a graph like this for all 50 US States plus New York City, showing weekly deaths with lines of different colors for each season. However, in this case the graph is for the entire United States, but only includes deaths from non-natural causes such as suicides, drug overdoses, and homicides. The green line shows mortality for the season 2019-20, and it shows a striking increase in weekly non-natural deaths in May, June, July and August of 2020. Increased drug overdoses, suicides, and homicides are caused by psychological and societal challenges, and the unusually large number in the summer of 2020 is most likely due to the overly aggressive social isolation protocols which caused economic and social turmoil. This was also highlighted in the analysis of Canadian mortality data by Rancourt et al which found increased deaths in young males in Canada during the same time period. Rancourt et al analyze this data in detail, stating "We note an anomalous mass mortality of young males in Canada… in summer 2020 and into the fall (Figure 7b). This ignored and silent epidemic is most likely not due to any viral respiratory disease, and merits an independent investigation in its own right.” (Page 41)
Even though the seven states that never issued stay-at-home orders did not have increased peak mortality over prior years, many of them still had this late summer rise. Here are links to the graphs to the seven states who attempted to resist the social-isolation mandates: Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
