Comment: The results of such kinds of 'criminal justice reform' have been painfully clear.

See:

• Over 110 defendants charged with capital murder are let loose in Houston, thanks to leftist 'criminal justice reform'
• NYPD boss: Spike in violent crime is because of Democrats' bail reform laws
• 'Destroyed our city': San Francisco mayor London Breed calls 'bullsh*t' on left-wing policies like defunding police in fight against rampant crime
• Los Angeles program could see felons evade prosecution for sexual battery & assault
• Soros' network of woke DA's bankrolled in cities across the US: How billionaire Dem megadonor gave Kim Foxx $2M, Philly's DA $1.7M
• Soros bankrolling dark money hub that spends millions on Defund the Police efforts

Comment: What isn't making the round in news as much as it should is that Omicron is actually building natural immunity to other variants. As it passes through populations and we see drops in cases, all such 'success' will likely be given to vaccines and continued boosters rather than the natural immunity boost from Omicron.

• Immune system can fight Omicron, says new study
• Stop panicking: You are a third less likely to catch Covid this Christmas than last Christmas and 80% less likely to die from it
• Omicron variant could boost immunity against Delta and eventually displace it: study

Comment: It's notable that just after the Haitian president was assassinated by foreign mercenaries, the US media began calling for US intervention:

• Why were Colombian ex-soldiers in Haiti? Experts say they are popular mercenaries
• Haiti's president just got assassinated and the media are already calling for US intervention
• Haitian protesters call for Russian intervention as they revolt against US puppet government

Comment: Similar supply issues and shortages have been looming across much of the planet, and for much the same reason, lockdown restrictions. What has also become clear is that these backlogs have a much greater impact than just immediate food shortages, they ripple through the supply chain causing farmers to go out of business, or scale back operations because healthy animals are culled and sent to the dump, and in turn this means that there's even less to go around the following year.

It's likely that the situation will be much worse than simply '12 months of supply chain issues', because governments are making little effort to resolve the problems - that, less we forget began during the lockdowns of 2020 - and crop failures, livestock outbreaks, inflation and government mismanagement of agriculture have yet to be taken into account:

• UK farmers face cull of 150,000 pigs after lockdown creates backlog of 'disastrous' proportions
• Lockdowns, panic buying, low supply: Beef prices surge to unprecedented levels
• Ongoing global bird flu outbreak sees France cull over 600,000 poultry in 1 month, 180,000 projected losses in Czech

For more on the issue, check out SOTT radio's:

• MindMatters: How Psychopaths Infect and Destroy Hierarchies of Competence
• NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?

Comment: Anti-Empire puts some visuals to the horror:

OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877. The company has approximately 2,400 employees and sells life insurance, including group life insurance to employers in the state.

Davison said the increase in deaths represents "huge, huge numbers," and that's it's not elderly people who are dying, but "primarily working-age people 18 to 64" who are the employees of companies that have group life insurance plans through OneAmerica.

"And what we saw just in third quarter, we're seeing it continue into fourth quarter, is that death rates are up 40% over what they were pre-pandemic," he said.

"Just to give you an idea of how bad that is, a three-sigma or a one-in-200-year catastrophe would be 10% increase over pre-pandemic," he said. "So 40% is just unheard of."

© OneAmerica Insurance

© OneAmerica Insurance

He said at the same time, the company is seeing an "uptick" in disability claims, saying at first it was short-term disability claims, and now the increase is in long-term disability claims.

"For OneAmerica, we expect the costs of this are going to be well over $100 million, and this is our smallest business. So it's having a huge impact on that," he said.

At the same news conference where Davison spoke, Brian Tabor, the president of the Indiana Hospital Association, said that hospitals across the state are being flooded with patients "with many different conditions," saying "unfortunately, the average Hoosiers' health has declined during the pandemic."

In a follow-up call, he said he did not have a breakdown showing why so many people in the state are being hospitalized - for what conditions or ailments. But he said the extraordinarily high death rate quoted by Davison matched what hospitals in the state are seeing.

"What it confirmed for me is it bore out what we're seeing on the front end,..." he said.

The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago, and in fact is higher than it's been in the past five years, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana's chief medical officer, said at a news conference with Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday.

Just 8.9% of ICU beds are available at hospitals in the state, a low for the year, and lower than at any time during the pandemic. But the majority of ICU beds are not taken up by COVID-19 patients - just 37% are, while 54% of the ICU beds are being occupied by people with other illnesses or conditions.