People Got COVID Checks. The Wall Street Journal Blames Them for Dying.
People Got COVID Checks. The Wall Street Journal Blames Them for Dying. by Laurie Ruettimann Allysia Finley has a theory: COVID stimulus checks caused overdose deaths. In a recent Wall Street Journal column, she argues that pandemic relief payments, not healthcare system failures or social collapse, drove the spike in drug deaths during COVID. The…