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Re:Twenty-one year old with no pre-existing conditions dies ... by dahart on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @11:57AM (#22685789)
Have you put this level of skepticism on the news reports about old people dying?

Those details will be proven true or untrue by more official sources, and probably today. My point was not that I know they're true, it's that they are facts that can be checked. But I have no specific reason to be more skeptical of this report than of any other COVID deaths I've read about, do you?

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Re:Twenty-one year old with no pre-existing conditions dies ... by thu2111 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @09:18AM (#22693256)
Yes. Such reports also deserve to be examined skeptically.

The big problem surfacing at the moment is deaths being reported as 'caused by covid' when they're in reality deaths that were about to happen anyway, and the victim happened to be infected e.g. cancer sufferers who were already in terminal decline.

There's increasing evidence that the excess death rate - deaths that truly wouldn't have happened if not for COVID - might be nearly zero.

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