You have to take into account the needs to care for a covid positive patient. The staff, the space, etc.
Arguing with these people is a fools errand.
Totally fucking stupid and a complete waste of time.
It's like when you get a second opinion from a doctor because they tell you your going to die in six months.
Some people will just keep going from Dr. to Dr. till they hear something they like.
In this case they keep Googling from page to page platform profile to profile till they see something they like.
In this case it's because they can't handle reality.
If anything deaths are being under-reported.
Think about AIDS, pretty sure nobodies ever dies of AIDS.
It wrecks your immune system and you can die of anything, preexisting conditions or even the common cold.
Covid is pretty much the same thing. Yeah OK a common manifestation is pneumonia or breathing problems.
But it can bring back preexisting medical conditions that your body can normally fight off, or that you thought you've beaten alltready.
What if somebody has covid and dies in a car wreck? It's counted as a covid death?
Fuckin stupid.
Yeah I mean who knows maybe Covid made them light headed leading to tunnel vision and then a stroke while driving and then they wrecked.
Really the only way to figure out the total number of deaths is to basically average it out at a much later date.
Taking the typical number of deaths is a cycle, say a year and then adding or subtracting for abnormalities to get a norm.
Compare the two and only then can you get a realistic picture of what's really happened.
The Economist has been following this basic concept for awhile now and they call it excessive deaths.
It also counts people who died of preventable causes who weren't able to get proper medical care because of the pandemic:
Our daily estimate of excess deaths around the world
www.economist.com
Although the official number of deaths caused by covid-19 is now 5.5m, our single best estimate is that the actual toll is 19.5m people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between 12.1m and 22.7m additional deaths.
Here's a better explanation:
Excess mortality is a term used in epidemiology and public health that refers to the number of deaths from all causes during a crisis above and beyond what we would have expected to see under ‘normal’ conditions.1 In this case, we’re interested in how the number of deaths during the COVID-19...
ourworldindata.org
Excess mortality is a more comprehensive measure of the
total impact of the pandemic on deaths than the confirmed COVID-19 death count alone. It captures not only the confirmed deaths, but also COVID-19 deaths that were not correctly diagnosed and reported
2 as well as deaths from
other causes that are attributable to the overall crisis conditions.
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