"It's just a sore throat bro"

[tpols]

On the average day, ~7500 people die in america, about 2/3 of them senior citizens. The 5 most common causes of death for seniors are heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic respiratory disease, and pneumonia. If you tested every one of the ~5500 seniors who die on the average day for the 30+ known strains of coronavirus (aka common cold), a large number would test positive for at least one strain of corona (some of them would be carrying more than one strain). A large number of these seniors would also test positive for at least one strain of flu. Despite the fact that large numbers of these ~5500 would test positive for strains of corona and influenza, under normal circumstances these viruses would not necessarily be considered to be the actual cause of these deaths. Typically when we define a persons cause of death, what we do is look at the entire sum of a persons life - if you smoked cigarettes for 50 years, got lung cancer, received chemo and a major surgery, and then ultimately died of a staph infection, your cause of death would be cancer brought on by a lifetime of smoking... we certainly would not place 100% of the blame on the staph infection that ultimately ended things. Now consider that 98% of supposed covid victims have at least one pre-existing illness and 50% of victims have 3 or more pre-existing illnesses, and yet all of these deaths are being attributed to the virus.

Currently with covid, we are testing almost all of the ~7500 americans who die every day to see if they have one specific strain of the common cold, and if they test positive we are attributing their death to the virus. Covid was first dected in the US on January 20th, and as of today we have about 730 americans who were "killed" by covid (except the majority of these people were not actually killed by covid, it was simply a contributing factor in their death). Consider that even if you want to use this laughably inflated and flawed method of counting covid deaths, the total number of dead americans who tested positive for covid is only 1/10th of an average daily death toll in this country... in the 66 days since covid was first detected in the US, ~500,000 americans (mostly seniors) have died for other reasons.

Ultimately covid is just a strain of the common cold that happens to be backed by a very slick marketing campaign.

yup... this whole thing is a charade.

and once the cards start falling, all the politicians have to "one up" one another or look heartless / incompetent. total scam.

[n00bie]

yup... this whole thing is a charade.

and once the cards start falling, all the politicians have to "one up" one another or look heartless / incompetent. total scam.

People like you are reason why it's spreading so rapidly.

[warriorfan]

Yikes, those stats look like Simons replies to himself count

[tpols]

People like you are reason why it's spreading so rapidly.

ive barely left the house in weeks wfh. only to walk in the park by my house everyday and grab food. theres no where to go.

[ItsMillerTime]

Boris Johnson purposefully got COVID-19 to show everyone this is a Deep State hit job against President Trump!!! It's so obvious guys!!!!

[scuzzy]

On the average day, ~7500 people die in america, about 2/3 of them senior citizens. The 5 most common causes of death for seniors are heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic respiratory disease, and pneumonia. If you tested every one of the ~5500 seniors who die on the average day for the 30+ known strains of coronavirus (aka common cold), a large number would test positive for at least one strain of corona (some of them would be carrying more than one strain). A large number of these seniors would also test positive for at least one strain of flu. Despite the fact that large numbers of these ~5500 would test positive for strains of corona and influenza, under normal circumstances these viruses would not necessarily be considered to be the actual cause of these deaths. Typically when we define a persons cause of death, what we do is look at the entire sum of a persons life - if you smoked cigarettes for 50 years, got lung cancer, received chemo and a major surgery, and then ultimately died of a staph infection, your cause of death would be cancer brought on by a lifetime of smoking... we certainly would not place 100% of the blame on the staph infection that ultimately ended things. Now consider that 98% of supposed covid victims have at least one pre-existing illness and 50% of victims have 3 or more pre-existing illnesses, and yet all of these deaths are being attributed to the virus.

Currently with covid, we are testing almost all of the ~7500 americans who die every day to see if they have one specific strain of the common cold, and if they test positive we are attributing their death to the virus. Covid was first dected in the US on January 20th, and as of today we have about 730 americans who were "killed" by covid (except the majority of these people were not actually killed by covid, it was simply a contributing factor in their death). Consider that even if you want to use this laughably inflated and flawed method of counting covid deaths, the total number of dead americans who tested positive for covid is only 1/10th of an average daily death toll in this country... in the 66 days since covid was first detected in the US, ~500,000 americans (mostly seniors) have died for other reasons.

Ultimately covid is just a strain of the common cold that happens to be backed by a very slick marketing campaign.

You're trying to redefine your own fine print definition of what it means to die to complications from a disease.

It's no different than someone dying from complications to AIDS and then saying "well HIV akchualy didn't kill them, it was a pneumonia or infections that did. So it doesn't count" No dude they died from AIDS lol. T-Cell count plummets = inability to fight and recover common pathogens.

But more importantly your statistical ways of gauging numbers and comparing them to this pandemic is ass backwards

"X" sample size vs "Y" sample size doesn't fit. A common cold reaches 75% of the world's population each year, Covid-19 hasn't even scratched a 2 digit percentile. The numbers infected and in critical condition will quadruple by Monday

[fsvr54]

I want to smack everyone who doesn't take this seriously. They must be orphans who never received love and care from other humans.

[TheMan]

no doubt.

god forbid you have to stay inside for a few weeks with family members and actually have an in depth conversation.

god forbid you have to throw away some of your vices for awhile.

god forbid you have to settle for bodyweight exercises as opposed to your barbell routines @ the gym.

god forbid you miss your yoga class and it throws off your 'zen'.

ffs, america... at least you have your iphones and your netflixxx. learn to make due.

Is that the porno version of Netflix?

[TheMan]

Nanners has completely gone off the deep end...

[LAmbruh]

Boris Johnson purposefully got COVID-19 to show everyone this is a Deep State hit job against President Trump!!! It's so obvious guys!!!!

lolololol

"SMH Liberal media fear mongering a contained Chinese epidemic for political gains"

>Political leaders and immediate families testing positive

"Dems and Libs faking symptoms for their Big Pharma buddies and inside stock trading"

[Hawker]

no doubt.

god forbid you have to stay inside for a few weeks with family members and actually have an in depth conversation.

god forbid you have to throw away some of your vices for awhile.

god forbid you have to settle for bodyweight exercises as opposed to your barbell routines @ the gym.

god forbid you miss your yoga class and it throws off your 'zen'.

ffs, america... at least you have your iphones and your netflixxx. learn to make due.

Ok boomer

You're 100% right but let's be honest this is what many boomers have said about the the younger generation for awhile now.

I think you can totally take this serious while also doubting a couple methods.

The "social distancing" thing does make sense.

Admitting the facts that many of the people that are dying or experiencing complications are old or with underlying health conditions and young people shouldn't be as worried makes sense too. Of course it can affect younger people but based on data, it's not something to be as alarmed about.

[LAmbruh]

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[TheMan]

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Bright side, this is gonna cost Trump his presidency but unfortunately a lot of people will die and suffer unnecessarily because of his ineptitude.

[SouBeachTalents]

Bright side, this is gonna cost Trump his presidency but unfortunately a lot of people will die and suffer unnecessarily because of his ineptitude.

I honestly don't know if it will. Biden is far from an inspiring candidate, and historically, the incumbent is VERY difficult to knock off. Of the last 5 presidents, 4 served both terms. Even '92 was unusual with a 3rd party candidate receiving such a significant amount of the vote

[Rolando]

Even with all the crazy stuff going, Trump easily wins against Biden. I totally agree. There's no movement or ideas behind Joe's campaign. There's nothing there.