Rockie wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 4:40 pm
RippleRock wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:05 pm
Maybe the Media and Government can start reporting Covid related deaths honestly. Co-morbidity is usually the cause cause of death, not just Covid. The Doctors explained --clearly-- that most people are dying because of underlying factors that are sometimes complicated by Covid to a degree.
Interesting logic. So if a person is hanging by a thread on a respirator and someone comes along and turns the respirator down until you die, it wasn’t the respirator being turned down that caused the death? It was the fact you were on one to begin with?
Doesn’t Covid tipping an already sick person over the edge make it a covid related death?
I never said once that it wasn't a "Covid related death"...….the reporting lacks information.
Logic interesting or otherwise is still logic none the less. Again, a terminally ill cancer patient with a week to live gets Covid and dies three days early. Are we hearing that they had fatal lung cancer? Nope, only Covid-19 is reported, and the Media and Government gets to report another victim to justify a draconian shutdown. The strange part is that Covid-19 might have shown no co-morbidity at all, and was not a factor in their death, but only tested positive. --It's counted anyway.-- Would we hear about the same patient dying of the Flu or the common cold three days early, not a chance.
Why are you arguing this? It's shoddy reporting that manipulates the ordinary citizen. All the facts surrounding each death should be made available, so we can draw our own conclusions about it.
When the Government is actively curtailing Consitutional rights, we should demand nothing less.
When the statistics put a price toll on the Worldwide economy of --each life-- Covid-19 taken so far at $330,000,000 --- in a lot of cases to only possibly have added a few years or less, where exactly do we draw the economic line? Apparently there is NO line, as we are on track to decimate entire industries, wipe out retirement savings for millions, send hundreds of thousands into personal liquidation, blow the 2020 Federal budget out into space, live with increased rates of stress related spousal/child abuse, alcoholism and increased suicide rates. It's insane.
Humanity has to realize that occasionally a disease or virus comes along and causes some deaths. Mitigate those deaths as best we can by isolating the vulnerable while the rest of the planet keeps going. Once we build herd immunity, we are stronger for it as a species. We have been operating like this for hundreds of thousands of years. We seem to think we're smarter than mother nature lately. The bill for this thinking is in the mail and enroute to us all. Some will pay now, others later, but we will all pay.
