Posted on 04/13/2020 9:20:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Every person infected with COVID-19 who dies is classified as a COVID-19 death.
All COVID-19 co-morbidities are completely ignored.
The exact opposite is true for seasonal flu deaths.
For instance, the CDC has confirmed 7,000 influenza deaths in the last 25 weeks and confirmed almost 90,000 pneumonia deaths.
Although influenza is present in about 40% of pneumonia cases each flu season, it is obvious that the CDC assigns the cause of almost all pneumonia deaths to - pneumonia - and not to influenza.
The number of COVID-19 deaths is based on fraudulent bookkeeping.
If we applied that same funky math to influenza and heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes, the annual death toll for influenza would be at least 250,000.
How do you know this bug doesn't have a season? You don't and neither does the CDC. Only time will tell.
Vaccine? LOL! Do you realize how many deadly viruses there are where no vaccine is available? From the common cold to Ebola, the vast majority of viruses have no vaccine. There is little to no reason to believe this virus will be any different.
The Doom and Gloomers have gone into hiding since they were swearing there would be well over 100K dead by now.
I don’t like that method of counting COVID-19 deaths. It’s probably a matter of expediency that will be sorted out later rather than some deep, dark conspiracy.
In a follow up post I said the lack of a season was my opinion based on everything i’ve read.
You know there is an Ebola vaccine, right?
What a load of pure BS. You are trying to split hairs to make an irrelevant point.
Any death of a person with the virus is a virus death. Your attempt to deny that fact is ridiculous.
Well, sort of. It brings the mortality rate from 96% down to about 60%. Having spent a hell of a lot of time working in the 3rd world I wouldn't hang my hat on that if I had to work in a region where ebola was present (and I have)
Bill Bennett talking about “beating the odds”
LOL
Unless the virus happens to be influenza, in which case the cause of death is usually (and subjectively) assigned to a co-morbidity.
So we had our freedom taken and economy destroyed for the sake of “guesses” by “experts”. And somehow, this makes sense to people?
Yes, I have to get my mind straight. Can’t be blasphemous toward flu based religion.
re: “on FR this kind of talk is blasphemy”
We had a bunch of panicky types on here during the ‘bird flu’ epidemic too ...
“I suspect the virus was creeping into this country as early as November, maybe even October and all the people who thought they had colds or pneumonia actually had the virus......”
I wonder about that too. I was short of breath through much of January and February. Started the first week of January well before Covid hit the news.
I mentioned it to my doc when I saw him in March for some other matter. My lungs were clear, he said it may have been mild asthma- but to me it didn’t feel like any other asthma I’ve ever had. And it didn’t respond to my asthma meds. It eventually went away all on its own.
I’ll be interested in taking the Covid antibody test when it’s available, see if I’m positive. But who knows. Maybe it was mild flu. Or the asthma that my doc suspects.
I imagine their model is somewhat similar to technical analysis of a stock. They are refining their curve every time that they get new, hard data.
The big difference would be that they are projecting their curve into the future based on an iffy R-naught number, that being the basic reproduction number of the virus; how many people each carrier can be expected to infect. That R-naught number is guesswork on a virus with no previous record to build on.
Here’s a good short video giving an idea of the difference that various R-naught numbers make:
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