More from Seacoast Online:
Hinch was attending a virtual meeting with legislators on Tuesday, but had reportedly been feeling ill after spending most of the cold day Dec. 2 outdoors for Organization Day. He normally would have chaired the meeting had he not been feeling sick.
Rep. Sherm Packard, R-Londonderry, told people at the meeting Tuesday, which was covered by InDepthNH.org, that Hinch had cold-like symptoms that were not COVID-19-related. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Organization Day was held outdoors at the University of New Hampshire in the cold due to concerns about COVID-19. The meeting lasted more than three hours in temperatures hovering around 40 degrees.
https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/state/2020/12/09/nh-house-speaker-dick-hinch-dies/3872403001/
So I clicked through to see a picture.
Just as I thought....quite a chubby fellow.
That low population state has a 400 member House? Is that a typo.
And masked up to the gills.
From what has been reported in the local news around here for the past few days, they have loosened up the “rules” (were there any?) as to which deaths can list Covid-19 as a cause. Now it seems that anyone who might have had any symptoms can be presumptively classified as a Covid-19 death, even if not tested. Maybe he was not tested, but met the new criteria (of assuming most deaths are from Covid-19)?
Bullshit
Funny how the Dems very rarely get COVID-19, and when they do, it’s usually some has been celebrity who just so happened to have finished a new book or a straight to Streaming movie.
Don’t politicians ever retire, like normal workers?
Wow!!
Very sad. The only cause of death these days is Covid. /s
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
Yeah, sure. Covid, right.
sorry to hear. 71 is not very old.
Why is only Republicans getting COVID-19??
Autopsy?
That means he died at home.
They don’t do autopsies on people who die in a hospital.
Most likely a heart attack or stroke.
“...leader of the state’s newly Republican-led Legislatur..”
A republican? My deepest sympathy.
I guess this means that he didn't know he was sick?
ML/NJ
I have a friend whose husband died last month from lung cancer. He'd had it for a while and was deteriorating rapidly. He refused to stop smoking and continued the habit until the end. He also had diabetes and heart disease. He was 79 years old when he passed away.
When she got the death certificate, the hospital he had died in had coded his illness as Covid-19 and put that down as the cause of death. Problem was, less than a week before he died, he had tested negative for the corona virus.
Second story. My wife has a friend who made an appointment with her clinic to get tested for the virus. However, she changed her mind and cancelled the appointment. A week later she got a letter from the clinic indicating she had tested positive for the corona virus. She never took the test.
Be cautious about believing what the government and health authorities are telling us about this virus and the disease you can get from it, Covid-19. There are financial incentives and political agendas driving this pandemic that change the dynamics of what is really happening.
I personally don't believe a word anybody says about any of it.
And yet PDT lost New Hampshire. Things that make you go humm???
NH RINOs are ALL dead to me. OK with election fraud, lockstep with Massachusetts lockdowns, and not fighting Mass income tax for New Hampshire telecommuters. My flag is at full mast.
Democrats admit there are serious consequences to their party members for collaborating with dirty, heartless, curmudgeon Republicans!