[bigbob]

That’s not as sinister as it might sound, because of the “but-for” legal standard. As my lawyer buddy who once served as a coroner pointed out, a death certificate is a legal document:

Factual (”but for”) Causation:
An act or circumstance that causes an event, where the event would not have happened had the act or circumstance not occurred.

An obvious example would be a person who has terminal cancer that is killed in a car accident. “But-for” the accident, the person would still be alive, thus it is the cause of death. The same is true for a person with diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, etc who dies after being hospitalized for covid-19. Under the “but-for” standard they did die “from” coronavirus and “with” the co-morbidity factor or disease.

I guess it’s more debatable if a person is so frail that almost any illness would have resulted in death, but that doesn’t apply to most of the covid-19 deaths that I’ve read about. Many seem to be active people who were out in society, traveling, taking cruises, etc despite having health problems, but who just couldn’t defeat the disease once it hit.

[Steven W.]

Think Marina Abramovich - there's here performance "art" and then there's (real) spirit cooking. One is for public consumption, excuse the pun, and the other is real, as she's explained. This is more of what the Podestas have in their art collection vs. what they eat with Tom Steyer. WWG1WGA :)

[smileyface]

It is sinister if the protocol has recently been changed to juice the death by coronavirus numbers, as is suggested by the Q linked twitter report. https://twitter.com/chrisbergPOVNOW/status/1247680994821509121

[little jeremiah]

I guess it’s more debatable if a person is so frail that almost any illness would have resulted in death, but that doesn’t apply to most of the covid-19 deaths that I’ve read about.

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Some deaths have been active and healthy middle aged or young adults, but the majority are eldery with co-morbidities.