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2022-04-19 -Land of the Free

Americans Should Put A Stop To The 'Biomedical Security State': Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

[ZERO] During the COVID-19 pandemic, stringent measures such as mandatory masking, vaccination, and "quarantining healthy populations" have turned the United States into a "Biomedical Security State," Dr. Aaron Kheriaty told EpochTV’s "American Thought Leaders" program on April 9.

"This welding of public health with digital technologies of surveillance and control and the police powers of the state allows for intrusions on our privacy, on our bodily autonomy, that are unprecedented in history," said Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and medical ethicist.

Kheriaty, chief of medical ethics at the Unity Project and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, added that a "probably north of 70 percent of Americans still got COVID in spite of almost a year of lockdowns," and that the lockdowns have essentially brought on "massive collateral damage" in the form of a mental health crisis.

He cited the pre-pandemic opioid crisis accounting for a total of 70,630 drug overdose deaths in 2019 in the United States, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) The lockdown has only "poured gasoline on [the] fire" of the existing drug overdose crisis, resulting in the skyrocketing of drug overdose deaths to over 100,000 last year, said Kheriaty.

An August 2021 study published on Pub Med found that "state lockdown policies precede greater mental health symptoms," and that many "non-heavy drinkers" turned to alcohol during lockdowns as a coping mechanism for "anxiety and depressive symptoms."

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-19 02:26|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

"Medical ethics"...? Will someone define this in layman's terms please? I believe I've missed something.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-04-19 02:34|| 2022-04-19 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 It’s not enough that the mandates end. The apparatus that made the mandates possible must go.

Posted by Ebbaise Brown5939 2022-04-19 03:24|| 2022-04-19 03:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Watch: Airline Passengers Celebrate End of Travel Mask Mandate

Posted by Grerelet Jones6885 2022-04-19 07:56|| 2022-04-19 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Anyone else get a notice that in the near future you can no longer 7 digit dial someone, but must 10 digit dial "In order to support a Suicide Hotline."?

Why would that be; last I smelled bullshit this thick was downwind of a feed yard with 1" of rain followed quickly by a slight breeze with 110F.

Local use land lines having to connect to The Big Hub?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-19 10:39|| 2022-04-19 10:39|| Front Page Top

#5 We’ve had to dial 10 digits in Atlanta for decades.

Posted by Beavis 2022-04-19 10:47|| 2022-04-19 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you Beavis. I still don't understand the in order to give access to the Suicide Hotline; guess it could be some wank trying to tie new policy to hot topic.

I have noted that tradition and digital medias are really starting to roll out depression counseling ads of many different colors. I believe Rantburg called this about week 8 of 2 weeks to flatten the curve, if taken as long-term policy. Wonder how many edge-walking teens who just needed a couple years to grow up, were pushed off the edge and are now long term damaged.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-19 10:53|| 2022-04-19 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 We have so many area codes population growth forced it. Why it’s being used to access Suicide prevention elsewhere, I have no idea

Posted by Beavis 2022-04-19 10:55|| 2022-04-19 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 We are anticipating a rather large population increase over the next few years; suppose a mental health hotline sounds better than Last's Month's Border Jumpers.

(and if you think the local 1st gen Immigrants are happy, whoa now. Nevermind the 2nd and especially 3rd.)

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-04-19 11:15|| 2022-04-19 11:15|| Front Page Top

#9 In the Cincinnati tri-state area (SW Ohio - Northern Kentucky- Eastern Indiana) they added another area code for new users and required us to dial ten digit numbers about two decades ago. Apparently there’s been talk about a national suicide hotline in recent months, but I completely missed it. But given that it’s 988, analogous to 911 for local fire and police, I don’t see why the area code matters.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-19 17:28|| 2022-04-19 17:28|| Front Page Top

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