[lepton]

Most of those 39,000 has serious existing maladies. They died WITH covid-19, not necessarily because of it. They had one foot in the grave and other on a banana peel. Why blame the banana peel.

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NYC regularly has about 150 deaths per day from all causes This varies from 168 in a bad flu season, to about 140 in the summer. So far this month, they’ve had over 700/day. Even accepting your misreading of the reports, what other cause do you propose caused the increase? Or are they dragging folks off the street and into the hospitals to kill them to buoy the deaths?

PS. “Existing malady” includes having or *ever* having had any level of high blood pressure, which alone includes about half of all adults in the country. While slanted towards the elderly over 45, this is killing folks that the flu typically doesn’t and includes a fair number of people who are still of working age. This is much broader that “one foot on a banana peel”.

[brookwood]

“NYC regularly has about 150 deaths per day from all causes This varies from 168 in a bad flu season, to about 140 in the summer. So far this month, they’ve had over 700/day.”

Thanks for your sane and sensible response.