How does COVID compare other things killing Americans?

We have vastly different responses to our current “master” disease (pun intended), the COVID virus, versus our more “mundane” diseases. Of course, COVID is contagious, like the flu or chickenpox, and the others are not. Yet COVID is far from being the worst killer. Cancer and cardiovascular diseases vie for that honor. The American Cancer Society “projects” that 1,898,160 people will get cancer in 2021, and 608,570 will die from it. Cardiovascular disease deaths in this country number over a million per year, between heart attack and stroke.

We have far less panicked reactions to cancer and cardio, compared to COVID. We’re told COVID death totals to date are a bit over 700,000. That’s in the last 20 months, so about 400,000 in a year. To believe that number, you must accept all the people who died “with” COVID — those who tested positive within 28 days of their deaths, whatever the actual cause of death.

When Alameda County, California, looked at its death stats a few months ago, it reduced the COVID totals by 25%. Then there are all the people who might have been saved had they gotten early treatment. See India, where you can note the dramatic decline after introducing the ivermectin protocol at the height of their Delta surge. The charts tell quite a story. Maybe, if they “let us” get treated when we got sick, the death count would be down by another 25% or 50% or even more.

Check all the flu cases that never happened last winter: there was “no flu season,” and one explanation is that it was counted as COVID. Unless you think masks made the difference. Flu routinely kills upwards of 30,000 people a year.

The biggest risk factor for all COVID deaths has been age, plus physical fragility from one or another of our “mundane” afflictions, including diabetes and obesity. The vast majority of people who have died from COVID are over 75 years old.

That leaves few probable COVID deaths within the under-75-year-old, healthy demographic, although we don’t know the real number, because we’re not meant to know. If we knew, we might stop panicking, stop vaccinating, and live our lives normally. Remember that kind of life?

We have our American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, but no COVID association. The two associations act as clearinghouses for data and fundraisers for research. The US government doesn’t direct them. Within both diseases, we’ve therefore made great strides in improving treatment, life expectancy, and quality of life. That is the aim—and there’s an open dialog, for the most part, within the scientific community as we go about achieving it. The system’s not perfect, but it’s way better than government-directed tyranny.

Too much game playing with numbers. This always arises when people want to define attribution. With vs of stuff is pointless. Heart attack patients recover for a time and then die, but they also had cancer. So with vs of means what? Just stop with the absurd attribution game playing.

Excess Deaths is the gold standard. If more people die than in a typical year, something is amiss. When people want to play games with EDs they will say . . . no! The virus didn’t kill them! They died because of the horrible stress of using curbside pickup rather than walking through their grocery store! Or wearing a mask concentrated their lethal breath back into their nose.

Here is how you can get confidence in the ED numbers. Go look at the graphs on the ED page. Watch how they rise and fall over the course of time. And then go see how by total coincidence, the Worldometers official Covid deathcounts are rising and falling at the same damn time. Imagine that! EDs correlate to the time of highest Covid deaths.

Maybe, just maybe, it’s Covid causing the EDs. Wow! Who’da thunk it.

Then after you’re done this and feeling ambitious, go hunt down EDs for other countries and have a look at their graphs over time and their Worldometers graph.

How is that relevant to excess deaths?

You do realize EDs are all causes? And the EDs are tracked by age?

If covid dominance of Medical Care personnel with the cause of Ed’s, then that would show in all ages. If docs are occupied with low blood oxygen levels of covid dying, and are not available to do surgery on 25 year old burst appendix, the Ed’s would exist for the younger ages. They don’t.

For the obvious reason that covid is generating more deaths than die in a typical year

Has Covid increased the total death rate in the US?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38UP_3XxJO8

Maybe, just maybe, it’s Covid causing the EDs. Wow! Who’da thunk it.

Didn't take long to find. Maybe, just maybe the government is cooking the data. They wouldn't do that would they? Seems to me that you don't ask enough questions and you wait for other people to do the research for you.

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