A good family friend, who’ve I known for 50 years, died in July 2020 because of fear of Covid, she didn’t tell her family she had abdominal pain.
When she finally did, they took her the hospital on Friday, she died on Sunday.
How many people died because of fear of Covid and putting off treatment????
Yeah - there are many things that media-driven fear of a virus did to harm people or cause them to harm or potentially harm themselves. Fear is a dementor.
Seems we should have been more like Africa and simply live our lives, get real immunity (natural) and be done.
My closest friend died of pneumonia at the end of May 2021 because his doctors feared covid. For over a year they would only give him telephone appointments.
When they finally decided it was safe to see him in person, about March ‘21, he was diagnosed with emphysema and COPD. He had neither and died of pneumonia two months later that had progressed too far to treat.
Apparently pneumonia is hard to diagnose on the phone (who knew?) although they still failed when he was examined in person.