1.Kieran F. Docherty and others write,
A substantial proportion of excess deaths observed during the current COVID-19 pandemic are not attributed to COVID-19 and may represent an excess of deaths due to other causes.
Pointer from John Alcorn. This raises the possibility that the panic over the virus is causing about as many deaths as the virus. That would be because we are conserving hospital resources in order to maintain capacity to treat Covid patients. But don’t absolutely bet on this research being correct. For one thing, if they use our CDC numbers, the CDC has a much lower estimate of virus deaths than other data sources. But the researchers are showing the same sorts of findings for other countries.
2. 3DDRR today was 1.14, and excluding New York it was 1.17, but I am waiting until Tuesday to comment.
Pointing to the “other deaths” might be a way for would-be openers to engage closers. Even those willing to overlook astronomical economic costs my be willing to consider lives vs. lives realities.
If I die at home of the coronavirus without getting a coronavirus test, I’m bout counter as dying of the coronavirus, even though I did.
It seems to me that there are a lot more coronoavirus deaths then officially reported.
What happened? From Bill Gates to your local editorialist, a new priority waddled to the fore. We decided that, whatever contributes to killing Ameri-cans at a routine total rate of 8,000 or so a day, it shouldn’t be the coronavirus.
Accidents, yes—6% of deaths. Heart disease, yes—23%. Flu and pneumonia, yes—2%.
These deaths are allowed but not deaths from the coronavirus even at the cost of economic ruin for millions.
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Not mentioned is the lives saved due to the delay of treatments and medical error.