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The Overdose Pandemic Is Deadlier Than COVID Ever Was, So Why Are Democrats Fighting Trump Rather Than Helping Him Save American Lives?For the last fifteen years, America has lived through a mass-death emergency that doesn’t get treated like a national emergency: drug overdoses. The government’s own mortality numbers show more than one million overdose deaths from 2010 through 2024 — and that is not a guess, that’s National Center for Health Statistics mortality data. Now compare that to what happened with COVID. The CDC’s death-certificate surveillance tool shows the enormous early toll — 385,676 in 2020 and 463,267 in 2021 — and then a collapse: 247,192 in 2022, 76,053 in 2023, 47,532 in 2024, and only 19,412 through mid-December 2025, which projects to roughly ~20,000 for all of 2025. That trend matters for policy. Because the COVID era proved something dangerous: political actors can seize a frightening number, strip out the nuance, and use it to control behavior. And yes — the nuance matters. These COVID counts are not “tests,” they come from death certificates, where certifiers list an underlying cause and contributing conditions.  Even the CDC’s own display acknowledges the distinction by reporting what share were listed as underlying cause — high in the early years, falling later. But here is what the public was told, day after day: not nuance — certainty. “COVID deaths,” as if the term required no explanation. And at the exact same time, the system baked in incentives that any honest person should question. Medicare policy implemented a 20% DRG add-on tied to COVID diagnosis for certain inpatient discharges during the PHE.  When you attach money to coding, you do not create purity — you create pressure. Maybe some of it was incompetence, maybe some of it was opportunism, but either way, it is the opposite of a system designed to protect public trust.Now look at overdoses. Overdose deaths explode in the 2010s, then skyrocket during the pandemic era: 91,799 in 2020, 106,699 in 2021, 107,941 in 2022, and still 105,007 in 2023.  Even with the real and welcome decline, the CDC still estimated 80,391 overdose deaths in 2024 — an “improvement” that would still be treated as a national catastrophe if it were any other cause. So here’s the question DEMOCRATS must answer: when COVID deaths are down to a fraction of their peak and overdoses have killed more than a million Americans across the last fifteen years, why are Democrats fighting a crackdown on the overdose catastrophe instead of helping save lives? Why is the national conversation still addicted to yesterday’s emergency, while today’s mass-death emergency is buried under bland labels like “accidents,” as if this were random bad luck rather than a slaughter? And let me be clear: I’m not saying COVID was nothing. I’m saying the way it was used was wrong. The public got fear. The public got mandates. The public got lectured about “trusting the science,” while incentives and politics shaped the messaging. And now the same people who demanded sweeping power over your daily life are suddenly allergic to aggressive action when the victims are overdose victims and the solution requires confronting supply chains, enforcement, and accountability.If we’re going to talk about saving lives, then let’s talk about the crisis that is still killing tens of thousands every year — and let’s stop pretending it’s normal.FACTS DEMOCRATS CAN’T DODGE • Over 1.1 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 2010. That is CDC/NCHS mortality data — not estimates, not opinion. • In 2025 alone, overdoses are killing roughly 70–80 thousand Americans, while COVID deaths are projected at about 20 thousand — meaning overdoses now kill 3 to 4 times more Americans per year than COVID. • COVID deaths were highly concentrated in just two years — 2020 and 2021. Since then, COVID deaths have collapsed year over year. • By 2024–2025, COVID is no longer a top-tier cause of death. At ~20,000 deaths per year, it ranks outside the top 10, closer to 15th–20th. • The COVID numbers everyone was shown were “death certificate mentions,” not pure viral causation. Even the CDC acknowledges COVID was often listed as a contributing condition, especially in later years. • During COVID, financial incentives existed for hospitals to code cases as COVID-related, including higher Medicare reimbursements under emergency rules. Incentives matter. • That doesn’t require a conspiracy — incentives + chaos + fear are enough to distort reporting. • Despite that, COVID got unified reporting, daily dashboards, emergency powers, lockdowns, mandates, and constitutional restrictions. • Overdose deaths — which kill far more Americans today — are fragmented across categories, buried under “accidents,” and denied a single headline number. • If overdose deaths were reported honestly as one unified cause, they would rank in the top five causes of death in America. • President Donald Trump has treated fentanyl trafficking as mass killing, pushing enforcement, border control, and cartel accountability — actions aligned with saving lives now. • Democrats have fought those actions: opposing enforcement, downplaying border-related fentanyl flow, and resisting accountability — even as overdose deaths dwarf COVID deaths today. • You cannot claim to “follow the science” while ignoring the deadliest ongoing public-health emergency in the country. • You cannot justify sweeping control during COVID, then suddenly preach restraint when more Americans are dying every single year from overdoses. • This is not about denying COVID existed.It’s about honesty, proportionality, and priorities. “If saving lives is the goal, then the overdose pandemic — not COVID — demands action. And fighting the one president trying to stop it is indefensible.” @topfans#COVID19 #overdose #WarOnDrugs #narcoterrorist #Terrorism #opioidawareness #pandemic