Re:Sweden Covid-19 Update
by ravitation on Thursday November 12, 2020 @03:36PM
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> Many people have chosen to promote the lie that the vast majority of COVID deaths can be dismissed using this reasoning, rather than a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction.
This is comically illustrated by the examples being used... Hit by a bus? Hospice patients with weeks to live?
The truth is that the typical comorbidities, that have a noticeable effect on the actual total number of deaths, are things like obesity, hyptertension, and diabetes... Things that literally will not kill an otherwise healthy adult in the same time period as COVID-19.
The biggest comorbidity by far is old age, which definitely will imminently kill those it affects on its own.
Re:Sweden Covid-19 Update
by ravitation on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:59PM
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I mean... No, it won't... Being 75+ doesn't kill someone in weeks like COVID-19 does...
oh, well no that is certainly not the point i was making, actually ive never heard this narrative. maybe a cultural difference if this is being purpoted in the usa? nevertheless it doesn't change the point that accurate data > inaccurate data..
They ignore the overwhelming "excess deaths" number and pretend that unless a person had COVID and COVID alone listed, with no co-morbidity, it doesn't count, and therefore 99+% of COVID deaths aren't COVID at all.
This is, of course, not true, as the excess deaths numbers clearly demonstrate. If anything, we're under-counting COVID.