[cmj328]

Of course this was all public knowledge in March, before the lockdowns.

[SeekAndFind]

OK Folks, I will not overestimate the dangers of Covid-19 for the general population. However, let us NOT UNDERESTIMATE the dangers of this disease to those HUGE number of people in the USA who have serious pre-existing conditions and/or are elderly.

Having seen friends ( plural ) die because of co-morbidities AND catching Covid-19, I cannot help but say to myself — well, yes, they will eventually die of their condition, but I cannot help but wonder HOW MANY MORE YEARS they would have lived had there been no Coronavirus ... Even a year or two is precious.

[ml/nj]

I believe that the threat from the virus is little different from flus past and that the lockdowns &c. are absurd.

BUT, it is also absurd to suggest that the proximate cause of death wasn't the virus, if someone who takes blood-pressure pills contracts Covid and dies.

ML/NJ

[Starboard]

So profound and true it bears repeating:

Instead of protecting the vulnerable – the elderly in nursing homes and those with comorbidities – health "experts" recommended locking everyone up and prescribing for Americans a wide range of ailments such as depression, suicide, missed early cancer screenings, unemployment, substance abuse, and poverty.

[Erik Latranyi]

How many of the 6% had undiagnosed/unreported comorbidities?

[McGruff]

That Wuhan virus sure put an end to those huge Trump rallies. Hmm?

[rlmorel]

Great article. Thanks for posting it, and we want to make sure we give American Thinker their clicks, so reading the article there has value. As others have said, we have been hearing since mid-late spring this mis-coding for COVID-19 deaths has been going on, but this is the first time I have seen this data myself.

Here is the money graphic from the article:

I would be astonished if hospitals were coding this intentionally with COVID-19 as the primary cause of death just because it was present at death WITHOUT express direction by Medicare to do it, because that seems like it would be fraud.

If Medicare mandated this kind of coding, that would be a different thing and someone should be called to account for that.

I am no expert on this, but I make the presumption that, under cause of death, there is a primary, secondary, tertiary cause, etc., and that as this shows, in only 6% of the deaths is COVID-19 the primary cause.

So, how has it become public perception that 149,192 people died from COVID-19, when in reality, only 3,814 people actually died from COVID-19?

Is that the Left deliberately looking at any appearance of the ICD-10 (U07.1) COVID-19 and simply taking that death as a COVID-19 death? Who is behind that? That is inherently and utterly dishonest. WHO? The Democrat Party? The Media? Medicare?

[Kharis13]

If you have any underlying health conditions, or are generally a worrier (or hypochondriac), wear your mask everywhere, carry hand-sanitizer and either social distance or stay home. For everybody else, get on with your life.

[kickstart]

You have got to be kidding??!!

[Southern Magnolia]

When the Wu-Flu was suddenly spreading in Italy, all the way over from the Chi-Coms, it seemed like this was a dangerous global pandemic.

Now, we find out that because several Italian fashion brands were bought out by the Chi-Coms, they were all going back and forth there on a regular basis and that’s why it was so nasty there.

[cdcdawg]

Being old is simply a matter of the passage of time and not dying. Being fat is a choice or a continuing series of choices. Take care of yourselves. If we took the very real obesity epidemic a tenth as seriously as we do the COVID HOAX, there wouldn’t be much of a problem. Of course, the same class of experts are just as wrong and dishonest about diet as they are about the virus hoax.

[Dr. Ursus]

Forty percent died in care facilities!

[LouAvul]

nly 6% died from the virus alone. The other 94% had serious comorbidities

Wait. I've already seen this. It was on FR repeatedly (with the exception of certain dystopian obsessed Freepers who were rooting for annihilation).

[GrannyAnn]

Going forward, we need to encourage our legislators to write laws that make draconian, unconstitutional lockdowns illegal.

[9YearLurker]

Absolutely, the numbers have been massively, fraudulently goosed. But something like 75% of Americans have such comorbidities, so it is not necessarily as clear cut as this.

[dfwgator]

Ya think?

[Valin]

SHUT UP AND PUT ON YOUR MASK!

https://players.brightcove.net/940277650001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6185108523001

H/T Power Line
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/08/straight-talk-about-covid-19.php

[wjcsux]

Later.

[central_va]

only 6% died from the virus alone

I'll bet everyone of that 6% was above 65 Y.O.

[central_va]

This virus should be renamed the Cloward-Piven virus.