[RushingWater]

My comments/questions:

All this mysterious horrid body failures - could this be a result of cells unable to carry oxygen due to zinc deficiency?
And, just like that, this article relates, the FDA is now advising against hydroxychloroquine.

[Autonomous User]

Pearl clutching from the mother of all clutchers. NY Mag.

Bite me.

[txrefugee]

My guess is hyperventilation, you hysterical do-do.

[Texas Eagle]

Please. People die in multiples of 9/11 EVERY DAY from car crashes. Why don't they force people to not drive?

Oh. Wait.

[Still Thinking]

Hey, dumbass! (not you, rw) Death IS normal, and there’s nothing you or I can do about it. Have you been advocating for people staying in and not driving their cars, and bigger, heavier safer cars for when they have to? [crickets] No? Then you’re a brainless whore, with only the ability to regurgitate what would be tyrants offer toy to thing, and not with debating. Slut.

[Secret Agent Man]

Yes. Oxygen depletion can cause organ failures.

And given each person unique problems and weaknesses it will affect different organs differently.

Then throw in underlying conditions, diseases, illnesses, pre-existing body damage and injury...

[rktman]

A stranglehold baby:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc6IDdIxBys

[RomanSoldier19]

We are expecting to get news, from news media.

Probably time we stop doing that.

[dhs12345]

Yet everyone and especially the doctors are speculating wildly.

[rightwingcrazy]

” to normalize, against all moral logic, the horrifying and ongoing death toll — thousands of Americans dying each day”

What’s the “moral logic” that the author uses to “normalize” the 50 million people in the world that die each year? How does he ever sleep at night, or smile, or even breathe, when he should be spending every moment mourning the loss of every soul?

[InterceptPoint]

The best theory I have heard is that the virus attacks red blood cells in way that limits their oxygen carrying capability.

I’m sure there are other theories. This one just feels right to me.

[libh8er]

It’s killing us through starvation, depression, lack of exercise, over eating... The virus is more potent than we thought.

[JimRed]

It’s not killing US...It’s killing SOME OF US. Another fake news headline designed to spread panic among the stipid and ill-informed.

[dp0622]

It could be and is the result of propaganda

[Bratch]

And yet despite all the hand-wringing, the death rate is similar to a severe flu outbreak.

Hardly worth committing economic suicide.

[alloysteel]

Coronavirus, in and of itself, has a rather low morbidity rate. Only in combination with other comorbidity factors, does it have much effect on actual mortality.

This is not to say that most of those persons who have perished would have died anyway, within a comparatively brief period, had there been no coronavirus, The chronic conditions would have been managed by medical means, sometimes for many more years.

Actual death comes not from the coronavirus itself, but from conditions exacerbated by the additional stress caused by the breathing capabilities being sharply reduced, essentially a form of pneumonia that leaves the body starved for oxygen, to the point of organ failure.

The trick is to interdict the effects of the coronavirus BEFORE this organ failure sets in. Hydroxychloroquine-zinc-azithromycyn protocol has been useful in gaining that advantage over the progress of the disease.

Doctors understand this relationship. Many lay people do not.

For what it’s worth, I have upped my daily consumption of zinc gluconate to 50 mg daily. Toxicity sets in at about 100 mg daily.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It isn’t all that surprising, in most of the cases (99% in New York?) people who are dying have comorbidities, and the virus seems to exacerbate whatever it is you are suffering from.

And then there are all the weird reports, most of which I haven’t seen from official medical sources so I don’t know what to believe and what is being made up.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I know! I know!

It’s going to kill us by starvation!

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . debating when and in what ways to “reopen,” and to normalize, against all moral logic, the horrifying and ongoing death toll . . . "

The classic straw-man argument. There are entire states with fewer than 50 CV deaths, hundreds of counties with fewer than 5, and hundreds more with none at all. In recent days, there have been between 20 and 30 states with fewer than 10 CV deaths per day. Yesterday there were 21 states with fewer than 5.

Returning to normal, beginning with these places with few cases and few deaths, is not a callous disregard of the loss of life, and the recognition that the loss of life in those places does not merit a complete shutdown of society is not "normalizing" the ongoing daily death of thousands of people elsewhere.

I am not going to say that the shutdowns are everywhere worse than the virus itself, but in places that have largely been spared the ravages of the CV, an ongoing, complete shutdown can have serious long-term and short-term effects, including effects on physical and mental health.

[Mom MD]

every critically ill patient follows the same patter. of multi organ failure at end stage. This is NOT new mysterious or unprecedented nor is it sinc deficiency

[shanover]

Yup,I knew when the “flattening” starts,the a-hole left will try to raise it again. I have never hated anyone or anything as much as the left. The only “flattening” the left wants is Trump’s re-election chances as in a true flat line. They are trying to destroy POTUS Trump and MAGA at all costs.