Another Deadly Cost of COVID-19 Lockdowns: "A Hidden Epidemic" of Drug Overdoses

Bodies are arriving at Anahi Ortiz's office faster than he can process them.

We've literally run out of wheeled carts to put them on," Ortiz, a coroner in Columbus, Ohio, recently told the Washington Post, which exposed a nationwide surge in drug overdoses.

The numbers are grim.

A basic axiom of economics is to look to both the seen and the unseen effects of a given law or action, each of which gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects," to quote Frederic Bastiat.