Michael Ejercito wrote:
> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1him6f9/covid19_lockdowns_unleashed_a_wave_of_murder/
>>>
>>>
>>> COVID-19 Lockdowns Unleashed a Wave of Murder
>>> Researchers find that pandemic policies sparked a wave of violent crime.
>>> J.D. Tuccille | 12.20.2024 7:00 AM
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>>> AI-generated image of an armed robber in profile, against the backdrop
>>> of a line graph illustrating rising crime rates. | Illustration: Lex
>>> Villena; Midjourney
>>> (Illustration: Lex Villena; Midjourney)
>>> Restrictive policies in response to COVID-19 did a huge amount of damage
>>> to our liberty, prosperity, kids' education, and even our sanity. But
>>> now there's evidence supporting what many of us suspected: Lockdowns
>>> also contributed to a surge in crime that temporarily reversed a
>>> decades-long decline in homicides. According to a new Brookings
>>> Institution report, forcing young men out of work and out of school
>>> fueled a surge in violence. Worse, this outcome was predicted.
>>>
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>>> A Surge in Crime
>>> It's no secret that, after years of declining crime rates, crimes
>>> against people and property spiked in 2020 and for a period thereafter.
>>> Most concerning was the rise in murders, which had happily been
>>> dwindling since the early 1990s.
>>>
>>> "In 2020, the average U.S. city experienced a surge in its homicide rate
>>> of almost 30%—the fastest spike ever recorded in the country," write
>>> Rohit Acharya and Rhett Morris in a research review for the Brookings
>>> Institution published this week. "Across the nation, more than 24,000
>>> people were killed compared to around 19,000 the year before."
>>>
>>> They add that "homicides remained high in 2021 and 2022, but in 2023
>>> they began to fall rapidly."
>>>
>>> The surge in crime has variably been attributed to efforts to defund or
>>> deemphasize policing that took off during the 2020 riots sparked by the
>>> killing of George Floyd, demoralized police officers resulting from
>>> those efforts, and the aftereffects of the social disruptions from
>>> lockdowns imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Acharya and
>>> Morris analyzed thousands of police records and examined the timeframe
>>>from which they were drawn. They find that the data best fits the last
>>> hypothesis.
>>>
>>> Murderous Lockdowns
>>> "The spike in murders during 2020 was directly connected to local
>>> unemployment and school closures in low-income areas," they conclude.
>>> "Cities with larger numbers of young men forced out of work and teen
>>> boys pushed out of school in low-income neighborhoods during March and
>>> early April, had greater increases in homicide from May to December that
>>> year, on average. The persistence of these changes can also explain why
>>> murders remained high in 2021 and 2022 and then fell in late 2023 and 2024."
>>>
>>> Interestingly, they write, "the national homicide rate was already on
>>> track to reach a peak far above the previous year even before Floyd was
>>> killed" and police defunding efforts gained traction.
>>>
>>> Most violent crimes, Acharya and Morris point out, are committed by
>>> teenage boys and young men in their twenties. Dumping them out of jobs
>>> and out of classrooms, at loose ends and often without money in their
>>> pockets, was a recipe for disaster. In a focused look at Baton Rouge,
>>> Louisiana, they find similar surges in violent crime in that city after
>>> Hurricane Katrina in 2006 and following a massive flood in 2016, both of
>>> which displaced students from schools and closed many workplaces.
>>>
>>> What's especially frustrating about the Brookings study is that we were
>>> warned that disrupting our society with lockdowns and mandatory closures
>>> would do serious social harm.
>>>
>>> Ignored Warnings
>>> "I am deeply concerned that the social, economic and public health
>>> consequences of this near total meltdown of normal life—schools and
>>> businesses closed, gatherings banned—will be long lasting and
>>> calamitous, possibly graver than the direct toll of the virus itself,"
>>> David L. Katz, former director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research
>>> Center, wrote in The New York Times in March 2020. "The unemployment,
>>> impoverishment and despair likely to result will be public health
>>> scourges of the first order."
>>>
>>> As I noted in a column that same month which quoted Katz, the
>>> International Labour Organisation (ILO), a United Nations agency,
>>> quantifies the degree to which shutting down economies damages societies.
>>>
>>> "For example," a 2013 report from the ILO emphasized, "a one standard
>>> deviation increase in unemployment raises social unrest by 0.39 standard
>>> deviations, while a one standard deviation increase in GDP growth
>>> reduces social unrest by 0.19 standard deviations."
>>>
>>> "Why would economic shutdowns lead to social unrest?" I commented at the
>>> time. "Because, contrary to the airy dismissals of some members of the
>>> political class and many ivory-tower types, commerce isn't a grubby
>>> embarrassment to be tolerated and avoided—it's the life's blood of a
>>> society. Jobs and businesses keep people alive."
>>>
>>> Likewise, education keeps teenagers engaged—or at least off the streets.
>>> Lockdowns killed jobs and closed schools, handing young men and teenage
>>> boys a great deal of frustration and free time.
>>>
>>> "The shocks of teen boys and young men being pushed out of school and
>>> out of work in low-income neighborhoods occurred across the country just
>>> before murders began to rapidly increase, and those baleful educational
>>> and economic conditions lasted for the same period of time that
>>> homicides remained elevated," add Acharya and Morris.
>>>
>>> The Mistakes of the Past
>>> These disruptions are a replay of events during past disease outbreaks.
>>>
>>> "The number of murders and of mass shootings have both increased
>>> dramatically," Brian Michael Jenkins, a senior adviser to the president
>>> of the RAND Corporation and author of Plagues and Their Aftermath: How
>>> Societies Recover from Pandemics, commented in a 2022 piece about the
>>> impact of COVID-19. "These last two years have resembled the disorders
>>> seen during the Plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian War and the
>>> Black Death in the Middle Ages." He quoted Thucydides' observation that
>>> "Athens owed to the plague the beginnings of lawlessness."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So, what to do? Acharya and Morris propose several anti-crime
>>> interventions, but the fact is that the damage has been done and we're
>>> now recovering to the extent we can. Murder rates have resumed their
>>> previous decline as teens go back to school and young men regain
>>> employment. But that's cold comfort for the families of those killed or
>>> otherwise victimized by the crime surge. They can't regain what they
>>> lost; they can only move on.
>>>
>>> The best thing to do, then, is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the
>>> past. We need to minimize social disruptions and certainly not permit
>>> government officials to close businesses and schools by decree. A free
>>> and prosperous society, it turns out, is a much happier and peaceful one
>>> than what results from the authoritarian whims of public-health officials.
>>
>> The only godly way to have the peace and joy of the "Prince of Peace"
>> (Isaiah 9:6) even while subject to authoritarian whims of either
>> public-health officials in their vain (Psalm 127:1) attempts to stop a
>> plague as has happened in the past or now in the present with
>> https://AntiChrist45.com and his false prophet, who is falsely
>> prophesying that conciousness (i.e. souls) will be saved by colonizing
>> Mars, is by living http://WonderfullyHungry.org (Philippians 4:12)
>> like (Luke 6:40) our LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Who chose to stay
>> quietly in the cold manger though He wanted to be in the warm arms of
>> mom Mary being fed and Who chose to eat the "piece of broiled fish and
>> honeycomb" (https://bit.ly/Lk2442 ) instead of being hangry at His
>> followers and disciples for losing their faith in Him.
>>
>> Indeed, I am http://WonderfullyHungry.org for food right now (Luke
>> 6:21a) and hope you, Michael, and others reading this, also have a
>> healthy appetite for food right now too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!

While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.

Laus DEO !

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Suggested further reading:
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Shorter link:
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Be hungrier, which really is wonderfully healthier especially for
diabetics and other heart disease patients:

http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrew touts hunger (Luke 6:21a) with all glory
( http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD, Who causes us to hunger
(Deuteronomy 8:3) when He blesses us right now (Luke 6:21a) thereby
removing the http://WDJW.great-site.net/VAT from around the heart

....because we mindfully choose to openly care with our heart,

HeartDoc Andrew <><
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Cardiologist with an http://bit.ly/EternalMedicalLicense
2028 & upwards non-partisan candidate for U.S. President:
http://WonderfullyHungry.org
and author of the 2PD-OMER Approach:
http://bit.ly/HeartDocAndrewCare
which is the only **healthy** cure for the U.S. healthcare crisis