why are the covid death numbers inflated extremely?
2020-09-02 15:09:01 UTC
94% of those who they said died of covid actually died of underlying causes and not covid and they count car accidents as covid deaths
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2020-09-02 15:30:59 UTC
Yeah, so this is false.
The number you cite is more or less accurate, but that doesn't mean that they didn't die of covid. We've know for a long time that covid is much more dangerous for people who have underlying health conditions. And the fact that they have these conditions doesn't mean that they don't die of covid. As for the idea that car crash victims are counted as covid fatalities that's just false. If someone comes in to the morgue having died of a car crash they're not going to test them for covid.
In fact, the official numbers are an undercount of covid deaths. Thats because only some get counted. It's mostly people who died under a doctors care after a positive covid diagnosis. People who die at home usually aren't counted. Even people who die on the way to the hospital might not be counted in the official tally. Now you may be asking "How do we know that there are actually uncounted covid deaths out there if they're not reported as such". Well we can compare overall deaths this year to last year. From year to year we can expect some fluctuation, but they should remain relatively steady. Instead we've seen a big spike in deaths in the US, which began in March, just when the pandemic began killing lots of people. This spike in deaths is far in excess of what we'd expect for a normal yearly fluctuation. And the thing is that there's not anything else, besides covid, which could account for this. Murders are up, but we're talking about maybe hundreds of extra murder deahts nationwide while the excess deaths total in the tens of thousands (once we account for the number of official covid dead). And many causes of death in the US have gone down. You mentioned car crash victims being counted as covid deaths. But the problem with that is that there are almost 200,000 covid deaths in the US but car crashes have declined dramatically this year. As people have stayed home more they've been driving less and so less exposed to the risk of an auto accident. Deaths from a number of other communicable diseases have also declined as social distancing and covid mitigation measures like masks have reduced the likelihood of catching those diseases too.
Leo
2020-09-02 15:25:36 UTC
If you have stage 4 cancer and die in a car accident on the way to chemotherapy, you didn't die of cancer.
2020-09-02 15:15:51 UTC
If anything, they are under reported.
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2020-09-02 15:12:41 UTC
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Official US coronavirus death toll is 'substantial undercount': Yale study
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Official U.S. coronavirus death toll is 'a substantial undercount' of actual tally, Yale study finds. Published Wed, Jul 1 202011:41 AM EDT Updated Thu, Jul 2 20209:11 AM EDT. Berkeley Lovelace Jr.@ ...
I was wrong once
2020-09-02 15:11:45 UTC
If you posted this on twitter your post would be removed for spreading false information.
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2020-09-02 15:11:02 UTC
Yeah I don't believe that. You people just talk a lot of shît.
2020-09-02 15:10:47 UTC
Why do you think 94% of COVID deaths actually died of something else?
Jas B
2020-09-02 15:10:46 UTC
And your credible evidence to support this claim is what?
2020-09-02 15:10:30 UTC
Cause the entire plot was to create a totalitarian government like chinas using the fear of a virus, but it failed and now their plans to vaccinate everyone with whatever the covid19 vaccine is will fail too
Emma
2020-09-02 15:10:20 UTC
They aren't. The people with underlying conditions wouldn't have died without the Covid. Car accidents and killings are NOT counted.
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2020-09-02 15:27:16 UTC
The death rate among those infected is much higher than they release. They do not want to scare the population, so they release info claiming 5 to 7% of those infected die from the disease, when it fact the numbers vary by country, between 19% and 35% among those infected. The math is simple, and anyone can check. No need to believe me.
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2020-09-02 15:11:03 UTC
Remember back when Mr. Trump said the hysteria about the virus was the new Democratic hoax, and they lied and claimed he said the virus itself was a hoax? The truth always comes out, it seems, in spite of liberals.
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