You cannot simply paint with a broad brush and say that anybody that had a car accident or a gunshot wound or cancer "was already dying".
And you cannot say count such deaths as "Covid" and not count them as "flu" and then create a panic because Covid is "so much more deadly than the flu". CDC has long acknowledged that they undercount flu related deaths. They haven't even tried to count them correctly in spite of the fact that the death count from even the deaths they've counted over the last 5 years dwarfs Covid.
Did you even watch the video? And YES. You can paint with a "broad brush". If someone has a chronic heart condition and Covid stresses them to a point that they die... the primary reason is NOT Covid. It is heart disease.
If the car accident was survivable but you had to go to the hospital to have your wounds treated but then you contracted COVID and died in the hospital than that is most certainly a COVID death because it was the COVID that killed you, not the car accident that landed you in the hospital.
I would mostly agree with that... but you reject the EXACT same logic when it makes Covid the secondary cause.
That's actually not a bad way of looking at it. Would this person die of Covid if they did not have this other serious, life threatening, life shortening condition?
There should be at least three categories of Covid related deaths. Primary cause, secondary cause, incidental. That and a public and repeated explanation of flu death undercounting would help put this thing more in its proper perspective.
And you still have the problem of excess deaths. The number of excess deaths appears to be around 55K (
correction- I took the raw data and came up with a difference of just under 140K this morning which includes not only any Covid related deaths but other deaths that can be linked directly to the shutdown)... but that is BEFORE you deduct the deaths that are because of the Covid response. Suicides are up. Drug OD's are up. Murders are up. People have died because they could not or would not go for needed medical care and operations. Then we have the possibility of years cut from people's lives due to stress related illnesses because they lost their jobs, businesses, life's savings, families, etc.
Heart disease is a killer. It doesn't need "help". Covid by and large only kills those who already have other life threatening problems... and even THAT must be viewed with the caveat that death rates have dropped dramatically as our ability to manage cases has improved. The IFR for the last month and a half is likely closer to what it would be going forward with or without a vaccine.... which it is roughly half what it was when CDC indicated the IFR was 0.26%.
So the current IFR is probably 0.13% or less... VERY flu like.... NOT Spanish Flu or Asian Flu like... much less Bubonic Plague or Smallpox.
I have NEVER said this wasn't a serious public health issue. It is. Even if we're simply doubling flu deaths each year which appears to be closer to the case... that's HUGE. But the responses have been AWFUL both from an effectiveness standpoint AND leadership standpoint. "Health officials" should NEVER want to create undue panic. Not only have they done that... they've worked to perpetuate it. The solutions they've pushed have not been effective.
At a time when the public needs to be reassured that they know what they're doing... they want people to wear masks which further divides people while having a terrible psychological effect on people by stoking their fears. These are the same people who less than 5 months ago confidently assured us that the public did NOT need to wear masks and even if we did it would create a shortage for the only ones that are effective.
If you want to buy into the fear narrative and continue to trust people who have been mistaken if not deceptive so many times then I cannot stop you. I'm not buying.... not their numbers and not their "solutions" unless proposed with proof that they'll work.
