Three people have died in the storm today and it’s all over the news. 158 people have died from Covid today and there’s not a whisper.
If they did of course.
As little as under 1 in 1000 Covid deaths reported have been of people with no underlying serious conditions. Overwhelmingly Covid deaths are of those with serious underlying conditions, often coupled with old age, itself a serious underlying condition.
But we take the lazy option of recording all those deaths as due to Covid, simply because it is a new and unfamiliar disease which they have coincidentally caught.
We could have done the same previously with the common cold, for all those who died after having coincidentally caught a cold, but didn't since that was such a routine illness.
Maybe as we learn to live with Covid, it will become such a routine ailment that we'll stop automatically using it as the cause of death for all who have happened to catch it around the period of their death. i.e. within 28 days, or within 60 days of a positive test, the latter used for the 2020 figures.
Just imagine how many deaths would have been recorded as due to the common cold if they automatically included all who died within 60 days / two months of catching a cold.
That rather puts the issue into perspective, does it not?
As I've already posted many times, a little less hysteria is in order.
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