You're responding to a question about suicide with a completely different article about opioid deaths, and the article itself attributes those deaths to the still-increasing substitution of fentanyl, which has nothing to do with lockdowns. Yet you're talking about "striking statistics" when suicides did decline.
So... a new 22k deaths by overdose, plus 2.5k new vehicular deaths, minus 1.7k suicides, vs 522k excess deaths. There were a total of 45,855 recorded deaths by suicide. ALL suicides, ALL drug overdoses, and ALL traffic fatalities TOGETHER do not add up to half of the excess deaths. You're spewing complete bullshit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/health/drug-overdoses-fen...