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 Frédéric Bastiat.
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