[Kazan]

Sweden is probably manipulating its own numbers.

We're not? Anyone with the virus is listed as a victim of it. Hospitals are getting reimbursed more for deaths due to the virus.

[Black Agnes]

I did say ‘all do it’.

Perhaps that line escaped you?

[lepton]

Anyone with the virus is listed as a victim of it.

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Flatly not true. A meme spread by folks that can’t read and are unaware of how causes of death normally are compiled.

Hospitals are getting reimbursed more for deaths due to the virus.

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Because it costs much, much more on average, and they do many more expensive things on average. They pay more for a heart surgery than they do for foot fungus too.

Regardless, in NYC, they are not dragging an extra 400 people in off the street to kill them every day - which is what your argument amounts to. Misclassification is certainly likely - but it is also certainly such a small proportion that it doesn’t amount to a hill of beans in the COVID statistics.