Posted on 04/05/2020 1:10:44 PM PDT by USA Conservative
If you’re not a senior(*1) with previously existing health condition(*2), you probably have nothing to worry about for yourself.
*1, seniors, for this purpose, are anyone over 45.
*2, a pre-existing condition, as defined for this purpose, means anyone with anything whatsoever physically wrong, now or in the past, whether previously detected or undetected, impacting or non-impacting, treated or untreated.
None of this should be taken to mean that the effects are not strongly slanted towards those over 50, but rather that the terms have been so loosely used that they create a false impression the other way. As example, “high blood pressure”, which is not itself a strong indicator for flu mortality, is for COVID-19 based upon evidence from Italy, and roughly 1/3 of all US adults have or have had just this one “pre-existing condition” (The review included anyone who had ever had the condition, even if it was resolved previously by weight loss or other means).
Getting in a panic over COVID-19 deaths is like getting in a panic over AR-15 deaths. The media plays up the evil nature of the non-human thing to conveniently detract from the obvious fact that in the US we all have a choice of good diet, good exercise, good lifestyle choices, avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, drugs(legal and illegal), sugar and promiscuous sex and other bad lifestyle choices.
But COVID-19 is scary in the same sense that AR-15s are scary. They are especially scary if they have antropomorphism.
You flu bros talk like this is over with. It’s not even close. NY state may just now be hitting it’s peak, and the middle of the country has a month to go yet. Wait about 4 months and then start counting the deaths. Hopefully, they will be low since they are starting to release some drugs that may work.
Deaths/million
U.S.A. = 29
Spain = 270
Italy = 263
France = 124
UK = 73
Switzerland = 83
Belguim = 125
Netherlands = 103
Sweden = 43
Luxembourg = 58
Do you think all these countries are boosting the numbers? It must be a worldwide conspiracy with the coronavirus twinking the minds of the data collectors too.
Many of the coronavirus dead were already on their deathbed with death expected in the next couple months. Coronavirus is the last straw that brings the death a couple months earlier than expected.
That is true of many, many things. A person is shot with a gun and goes to the hospita. In the hospital his wound becomes infected and the person dies. Do we blame hospital acquired infection? the #3 killer in the US? or do we blame the gun, the #99 killer?
People smoke and die of lung cancer. Do we blame smoking? or Lung cancer? People drink and weaken their kidneys and liver. Then they acquire HIV and die. Do we blame alcohol or HIV?
Wait, huh?... Why don't you just 68,423 and counting?
They could exhume some bodies to get the numbers up...or just count every 4th person in the cemetery as a CoVid 19 casualty.
Businesses, the Democrat Party. Individuals,
Actual Cause of Death Prevalence Reportage Heart Disease 30.2 % < 3% Cancer 29.5% < 14% Road, Falls, Accidents 7.6% < 3% Lower Respiratory Disease 7.4% < 3.5% Alzheimer’s Disease 5.6% < 1% Stroke 4.9% 5% Diabetes 3.8% < 2.5% Drug Overdose 2.8% < 1% Kidney Disease 2.7% < 1% Pneumonia & Flu 2.5% < 1% Suicide 1.8% > 10.6% Homicide 0.9% > 22% Terrorism < 0.01% > 33%
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Which virologists? Because there is no virologist anywhere who knows precisely where this thing is going.
“Because there is no virologist anywhere who knows precisely where this thing is going.”
Who knows exactly where this is going?
About 7,196 Americans die every day in the US from a wide range of causes, both natural and unnatural. (https://www.weisspaarz.com/leading-causes-death-by-state/)
More than 2600 Americans die every day of cardiovascular disease. ("Hidden," Jones & Bartlett Publishers)
Doctors blamed heart disease for 647,457 deaths in 2017 — more than four times the number of deaths caused by the next most common cause, chronic lower respiratory diseases. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/60/)
274 people die every day from blood clots, according to the National Blood Clot Alliance. (https://health.usnews.com/conditions/articles/what-are-the-warning-signs-of-a-blood-clot)
In 2017, 83,564 people died from complications related to diabetes. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/55/) It is frequently stated in scientific and lay literature that obesity causes about 300 000 deaths per year in the United States...it may difficult to develop accurate and precise estimates. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448478/) Obese people account for 37 percent of the United States’ population, but obesity-related diseases and health problems account for 61 percent of healthcare costs in the United States every year (“The Economics of Overweight and Obesity,” 2007).
500 people with diabetes die prematurely every week. (https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about_us/news/premature-deaths-diabetes) Diabetes can cause heart disease, kidney failure, and blindness, and costs the US health care system and employers $237 billion every year. (https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/about/costs/index.htm)
Up to 80,000 Americans Died of Flu in 2018... 90 percent of those deaths were in people over age 65 (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/health/flu-deaths-vaccine.html) A four-week stretch saw the flu kill older Americans at a rate of 169 people a day, or seven people per hour. (https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/older-flu-deaths-rising.html)
CDC estimates that influenza has resulted in between 9 million – 45 million illnesses, between 140,000 – 810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000 – 61,000 deaths annually since 2010. (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html)
Accidental poisoning accounted for 64,795 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/54/)
In 2017, 6,118 people died from inflammation of the colon and small intestine caused by infection with the Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, bacteria, which is often resistant to antibiotics.
47. In 2017, 6,118 people died from inflammation of the colon and small intestine caused by infection with the Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, bacteria, which is often resistant to antibiotics. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/)
1,500 die every day from cancer ... Cancer remains the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., behind heart disease. (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/report-1500-die-every-day-from-cancer/),
91 people on average die every day from opioid overdoses (https://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/08/21/how-drug-overdose-is-a-leading-cause-of-death-among-young-people/2/)
Breast cancer claimed 42,510 lives in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/49/)
More than 38,000 people die every year in crashes on U.S. roadways. The U.S. traffic fatality rate is 12.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. (https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/)
About 90 people die each day in the US from crashes (https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.html) According to CDC statistics, there were 40,231 deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/47/)
(Doctors blamed sepsis in the blood — also known as septicemia — for 40,922 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/48/)
HIV was listed as the cause of death for 5,698 Americans in 2017 (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/14/)
Doctors blamed Parkinson's disease for 31,963 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/43/)
Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost (YPLL) each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010 (https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm)
Doctors blamed alcohol-related liver diseases for 22,246 deaths in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/38/)
According to CDC statistics, 23,854 people died of suicide by gunshot in 2017. (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/40/)
Each day, ten Americans die from asthma, and in 2017, 3,564 people died from it. (https://www.aafa.org/asthma-facts/)
In 2017, statistics show that 486 people died after accidentally being shot with a gun [#59 out of a list of 61 by CBS, but which lists it as the first page] (https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/2/
I’m a senior with a previously existing condition. If I get this stuff, I probably have slightly less than 50% chance of living. So, I’m moderately concerned.
And it’ll be miserable while I die. I had a taste of what it’ll be like last October, when I spent 2 days in ICU with Influenza A and Influenza B at the same time. It was not a fun time.
You flu bros talk like this is over with. It’s not even close.
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