How can I be sure the people listed as dead from corona virus actually died from it?
Are you saying I can trust the media?
Are you saying I can trust leaders in the medical profession—the ones with roots and tentacles stretching into and beyond Big Pharma, Big Health Care and Big Deep State?
You should not _believe_ anyone.
You should do your own homework.
Geek out here—the Diamond Princess petri dish stats:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099517/japan-coronavirus-patients-diamond-princess/
“Are you saying I can trust the media?”
I’m saying you can trust or distrust anyone you damn well please.
As certainly none of us care.
Do not believe anyone.
Check out this guys videos, starting with the older ones:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD2-QVBQi48RRQTD4Jhxu8w
He—and we—have been all over this thing for a long time—by using logic, not by believing anyone.
How hard would it be for Chinese bureaucrats to kill a segment of their population and call it coronavirus?
Or for the administrator of a nursing home to slip a little something behind the curtain late at night and voila—you have a few 80 year olds with fever “dead from Covid19.”
Check Twitter, too.
https://twitter.com/AmyAchesonTweet/status/1239051086842990593
I don’t trust the media. Most of them I assuming are lying.
I am highly skeptical of government bureaucrats. Many of whom are incompetents or liars or both.
I assume (usually correctly) that most official sources of this sort of information have various agendas which color their information even with good intentions.
Now.....that said....I am 68 & Mrs. Child is 67. Both in good health. Our daughter has been very close friends with someone for 15 years who has been with the NIH for much of that time. This person has a PHD in the relevant research sciences and has traveled all over the world in her capacity with the NIH. Our daughter, who is annoyingly (sometimes) smart, says that this friend (no names) makes her look slow, LOL. This person told her that the severity of the infections damaging lungs is being significantly under reported & wants us to be *very* cautious.
While I am quite skeptical of most sources, I am not so with this person.
Are we panicking? No. But I got a little too close to dying of flu complications in January 2019 after not having had the flu in at least 3 decades. A real bell ringer, I will tell you. So, prudent is the key word in my house right now. I’m doing the online shopping/pickup at Kroger for the time being and time out to fight cabin fever is riding my motorcycle as much as weather permits.
I am very concerned that this is going to tank my business and maybe force me to hit our IRAs which are none too flush.
I wouldn’t put it past leftist pols to pump up their numbers. They get more fedgov funds, plus things look more dire which they figure will hurt Trump.
“ How can I be sure the people listed as dead from corona virus actually died from it?”
Don’t touch your face.
You can’t.
Dig a hole in your back yard. Climbing. Pull a trash can over you.
We will let you know when it’s alright to come out.