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Posted on 12/31/2020 6:02:56 PM PST by Secret Agent Man

Why is everyone losing their sh1t over covid when iatrogenic deaths kills far more people every year?

I mean with the hyped numbers, we have health people admitting that no matter what people die of, if they test positive for covid, its automatically regarded as a covid death, so car crashes, falls, accidents, heart attacks, gunshots, all will be marked as a covid death if they test positive for covid.

So the covid death numbers are so totally wrong to begin with.

Consider society doesnt go apes1t, or are drivn crazy hysterical be the mediass, about iatrogenic deaths, which conservatively are about 225,000-250,000 a year.

These are deaths by medical mistakes and errors.

Dying by medical mistakes and errors is a far, far bigger hreat to your health than covid-19

But no mediass hype, no medical hype, no government hype, about the real death figures of a quarter milioj folks a year due to doctor and nurse and pharmacist errors and mistakes.

If people are going to be freaked out by something, perhaps they should freak out about something that is really deserving to be freaked out about. No one is hyperinflating these death numbers, in fact everyone who calulates these takes a conservative approach to doing so.

Google it and find all the articles discusing what the figure is, how they break it down and come to a total. Heres a starting one.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/gary-g-kohls/americas-well-hidden-iatrogenic-epidemic-of-drug-and-vaccine-induced-disorders/


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: covid; deaths; hypocrisy; iatrogenic; stupidvanity
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Its like magicians hands, distraction.

Dont look at the 250,000 dead by human medical errors and mistakes, just kep focusing on al the covid deaths we're reporting

Oh that guy died in a car crash? Test him, if hes got covid we count him as a covid death

1 posted on 12/31/2020 6:02:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: Secret Agent Man

I learned a new word. (iatrogenic)

People are heavily manipulated by the media.
I’m far more concerned with the economy and loss of freedom.


2 posted on 12/31/2020 6:08:22 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Yeah they use that word to obscure that its medical mistakes/errors.


3 posted on 12/31/2020 6:11:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I had to Google that.


4 posted on 12/31/2020 6:16:20 PM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I listened to a talk some time ago by Michael Crichton about fear, politics, and complexity.
(He references the deaths from medical practice and prescription pill adverse effects)

If you’re bored and have 52 minutes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu8akBowTg


5 posted on 12/31/2020 6:18:28 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Secret Agent Man
Pandemicgate
6 posted on 12/31/2020 6:21:48 PM PST by vigilante2 (Release the Kraken)
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To: EEGator

I do know that pharmacists have wound up saving people from doctors who prescribe something that will wind up killing the patient if they take the new prescription with whatever else they are currently taking....

But imagine the ones they havent always caught. They cant catch everything.


7 posted on 12/31/2020 6:22:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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And add in the statistical anomalies that aren’t even known.
There’s a reason it’s called practicing medicine.


8 posted on 12/31/2020 6:24:40 PM PST by EEGator
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Maybe, if somehow we could link this aborted babies. That would shut them up. Covid would be magically gone!


9 posted on 12/31/2020 6:24:59 PM PST by rapture-me
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To: EEGator

And this is the hypocrisy

They demand we elieve them 100% because “science”

Yet they retreat to the excuse of “its an art” when it doesnt go like they’ve demanded us to believe it will and we point it out

And they still demand we trust them completely because theyre the experts and we’re peons


10 posted on 12/31/2020 6:28:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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They love their hypocrisy.

A lot of fundamental “science” isn’t truly known. It’s just the best method for finding the truth.

We can describe gravity, but what causes it?
WTF is dark energy/matter, other than something that fulfills our current equations?
Why is the corona of the Sun so hot?
“Scientists” laugh at the concept of God, but embrace string theory.
It goes on and on.
Real science doesn’t require emotion, name calling, or the greater percentage of people to accept it.


11 posted on 12/31/2020 6:40:00 PM PST by EEGator
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It’s ironic that you are complaining about (for example):

An an 88 year old patient, with end stage heart disease, and end stage lung disease, and dementia, who gets COVID and dies, gets called a COVID death when he has another heart attack after getting the COVID. (Even when a healthy person would have lived.)

And yet that is exactly what you are saying about medical mistakes:

A drug is given to that same 88 year old patient and if the patient gets a significant side effect and dies, then it may well get called a death from a medical mistake! (Even when a healthy person would have lived.)

It’s the same distortion in both cases. That many people do NOT die from medical mistakes, even though that many people might die WITH medical care which included mistakes. The true number is lower. (And “mistakes” is a lot more subjective than deciding if a COVID test is positive.)

It’s quite a thing to bring those both up as counterpoints when the same distortions are present in both thouse “statistics.”

Medical mistakes are bad. COVID is bad.

But we should not distort either bad condition by mis-diagnosing what actually occurred.


12 posted on 12/31/2020 6:40:45 PM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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Another 100,000 die from properly prescribed medications.

100,000 Deaths Per Year In The U.S. Caused By Prescription Drugs

13 posted on 12/31/2020 7:07:39 PM PST by TigersEye (2020 - The year of massive frauds. Impeachment - masks - lockdowns - Biden - elections...)
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Respectfully disagree

Every single medical mistake and error, is a Medical mistake or error, bemit surgical, drug, something forgotten, whatever.

Every single thing is attributable to a medical person making a mistake that is directly the reason for the death.

Someone dying of a car crash or gunshot wound or something not covid related, and whoever decides to check their blood after death for covid, and if they have it, classifies it as a covid death, is absurd.

Every iatrogenic death is a human error that is directly related to causing that death. Not so the way they are classifying covid deaths. Get electrocuted, and if you have covid, its a covid death. No.

There is no hype to increase the number of iatrogenic deaths. The very reason they try to call everything and anything a covid death is to artificially inflate the covid death njmbers to keep the fearsteria high.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 7:14:27 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EEGator

Thank you for that link. I am a big fan of Michael Crichton, he was a very sharp guy.

His book “State of Fear” hits the nail on the head, and has the humorous bonus of having the evil bad eco-terrorists driving Priuses...:)

RIP.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 8:35:19 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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"...I’m far more concerned with the economy and loss of freedom..."

Absolutely.

There was a dipstick new member on Free Republic who was accusing conservatives of killing our fellow Americans by our refusal to kowtow to the statists, said he didn't think businesses were being bankrupted (and that closing them was not an unconstitutional infringement on those business owners) and that the government could jump in and bail them out.

He was 100% on board with closing businesses, mandating mask wearing and social distancing.

I could hardly believe the ignorant turd, but...there he was, on this very forum.

16 posted on 12/31/2020 8:40:56 PM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Ahhh. A shill for plaintiffs bar. You of course do not realize that the texts To Err is human and bridging the quality chasm are now the way most hospitals are run. A s you repeat plaintiffs statements of medical errors etc. we have learned lessons from the airline industry as HROs are better and better each day

But please if you get sick. I beg you on behalf of all of us physicians who work tireless hours even on holidays and get abused by idiots like you...seek medical attention elsewhere.

We won’t mind
I promise.


17 posted on 12/31/2020 8:44:42 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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so 250,000 deaths per year by mistakes and errors, and this is your pitiful, pious answer to it

thank you for showing us why we have 250,000 deaths per year from people,like you who have victim/martyr complexes competing to see which one is more dominant

thanks for showing all of us on FR who you truly are


18 posted on 12/31/2020 9:03:12 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not a victim or martyr complex. I explained what we are doing and provided you appropriate reference.
You know. So you could learn something.


19 posted on 12/31/2020 9:06:47 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not a victim or martyr complex. I explained what we are doing and provided you appropriate reference.
You know. So you could learn something.

But in any event happy new year. I am done teaching for the night and after a long day if committing medical errors and mistakes I will spend a few moments with my family and then go back and take care of the I’ll tomorrow on a holiday when you no doubt will enjoy a day off for more arm chair expertise.

Happy and healthy 2021 to you and yours.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 9:09:47 PM PST by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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