People go to nursing homes to die. Sounds harsh, but it’s true. Few live 5 years in a nursing home, for a reason. These folks are at the end of their lives. Many are “circling the drain,” using the quiet black humor med folks use.
When someone is knocking on death’s door, for a variety of reasons...heart disease, 80yo, diabetes, PAD, obese, HBP, it doesn’t take much for them to keep over. Colds kill old folks. The flu does, too. This is no secret.
If we counted “deaths with flu” as “deaths from flu,” the flu deaths estimated each year would probably double, if not triple. Yet that’s how we count all Covid deaths—”deaths WITH covid” are counted the same as “deaths from Covid.”. They are cooking the books.
We don’t actually count actual flu deaths anyway. It’s estimated. Why? It’s no big deal, and not worth the cost to test everyone. Yet flue deaths 2017-2018 numbers are close to projected Covid deaths. (This season)
We’ve been had.
(This season because we are in the 2019-2020 Covid season. Which should officially end in August. Will they start the scoreboard over? Doubt it. Got to keep cooking the books. They’ll continue treating it different and continue to add to the death count in perpetuity, probably)
Do you have any idea how flu deaths are counted?
You might be surprised that the numbers are estimated afterwards, based on looking at death certificates. Influenza is not a reportable death.
If you die of pneumonia between November and March, no matter the cause, you are a flu death.
The whole counting of the dead is a stupid exercise.
But if you are, not only did we have a tough flu year, but we had another flu on top of it—that is not even into its third month yet.
You see, if you are going to get into counting raindrops you can do it in a lot of ways. First, think of the outcome you want. Then use the numbers to prove your point.
Your arguments “seem” to make sense. Until you realize that almost all of yuur data is skewed and estimated.
Suggest you prepare to be flamed by the bed-wetters here. I’ve been saying the very same thing for the past 4 weeks only to be torched by fellow FReepers and mods for daring to speak my mind.
It’s just the flu dammit and the mortality rate is no greater. Geezus!