[nonliberal]

I would guess little to no impact. Johns Hopkins reported on 11/22 that the overall death rate was the same with Covid as without Covid.

That got buried because it questioned the narrative.

[Sacajaweau]

Chances are that 99% of Covid cases in the elderly was a complication but not the actual cause of death.

[Reverend Wright]

This !

[RedStateRocker]

Do you have a link for that? I couldn’t find it.

Thanks

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Exactly! Here in Kanadahar, Statistics Canada shows that, other than a jump in March and April, weekly death rates are BELOW AVERAGE! Of course, the gubmint and MSM avoid meticulously talking about these stats. (Never let a crisis go to waste, especially a MANUFACTURED crisis!) Many people, but not enough people, are realizing the total rubbish that is the CCP-Coronavirus panic.

Here is the link: Weekly death stats in Canada show COVID hasn't DEVASTATED the country

[1Old Pro]

I would guess little to no impact.

Yep, zero impact.

[Engedi]

I’m thinking that people will try and claim SS disability from health issues post-COVID recovery. People reporting heart issues, health issues, fatigue, etc after they got COVID.

[calenel]

“Johns Hopkins reported on 11/22 that the overall death rate was the same with Covid as without Covid.”

JHU reported that the distribution of deaths by age was the same with or without covid. That’s entirely different from what you claim.

If CCP-19 killed 10 times as many people as everything else put together, but in the same proportions as it has, then the JHU study would have shown the same results - the same distribution with and without CCP-19 - with no spike.

If CCP-19 killed 100 times as many people as it has, there would still only be a small spike in the 65-85 brackets of about 2%. That would be on the order of 24 million CCP-19 deaths. Simply put, CCP-19 kills people in the same proportions as everything else does.

I also ran the numbers for 10, 100 and 1,000 times the current figures (2.4, 24, and 240 million, respectively, dead from CCP-19) and it still comes out within a couple percent even with 240 million CCP-19 deaths. No spike. Distribution too similar to the aggregate for any notable anomaly.

Sorry, but the “no effect” claim is a misrepresentation of the data. No spike among the old, which is what they went looking for, is not the same as no effect. You run out of Americans before you get a statistically significant result (at 240 million deaths you kill off the entire Social Security cohort nearly 4 times over, but the “spike” is *still* only about 2.1%).

To completely kill off the SS cohort you’d need 80 million deaths, although the model would fail much sooner than that - hospitals would fail and the age distribution would skew sharply younger, treatments would have widespread shortages, and so forth.

CCP-19 is now the third leading cause of death in this country, after Heart Disease and Cancer. The way to measure it is in excess deaths, currently running pretty close to the official CCP-19 death toll, and when they can calculate it, shortening of life expectancy (my estimate is around 4-5 years in the US).