Posted on 05/07/2020 9:47:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“If they are getting their numbers from the states, what accounts for the huge discrepancy as shown the previous post for NY State?”
Looking at WorldOmeter, it appears they are getting data from each county.
I also notice BNO New York numbers are different then WorldOmeter too.
Maybe someone could email WorldOmeter and ask them.
We are in the middle of a crisis, and the “important” thing is how well we are counting the dead people we can’t do anything about.
Give it a year, and let’s see if the total number of deaths in the country is more or less than the previous year, and is outside the norm.
It’s really a matter of semantics, as a lot of death info is.
If you aren’t going to count the proximate cause of death (like “heart stopped”), and instead are going to figure out what caused the event, you are basically making some educated guesses. Heart Disease? What caused that, were they a smoker, did they get scared, did they have low blood pressure, did they get an electric shock?
If I was dying of an illness, and took a medication for it, and that medication was keeping me alive, but then I got a side-effect from the medication and it killed me, why am I dead? Because my liver failed, or because of the disease I was trying to stave off with medications that destroyed my liver?
It’s easy to know that someone died of ammonia poisoning, but was it important that they had liver failure? And that the liver failure was caused by carcinoma that migrated to the liver tissue?
Well, is it possible to even know whether or not the person, who say, has heart disease, would have lived LONGER had he not contracted Covid-19?
I think the right way to code it would be to say that he died of heart disease *AND* he was Covid-19 positive.
Now, do we count it on the heart disease tally? Covid-19 tally? or both, is the question.
If a guy dies on a roller coaster by having a heart attack, we don’t say the roller coaster killed him.
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