it's been over for MONTHS! wrote:
Primo Numero Uno wrote:
It means that the median time between when someone enters a nursing home and the day they die is less than 6 months. This is the pre-COVID number. Meaning we shouldn't be freaking out and destroying the economy for young healthy people to protect a group of people who only have a few months to live under the best of cases. Clear enough for you?
Also, I'm taking a very tiny leap of faith that many of those nursing home deaths that we are chalking up to COVID would have died between now and the time the COVID hysteria started even if COVID was never a thing. If we started testing everyone in nursing homes who went to the hospital for the Flu and recording them as a flu death if they tested positive of had flu-like symptoms when they died our flu death toll each year would be astronomically higher. We don't freak out about the Flu and record it for the cause of death for everyone in nursing homes which is why the CDC uses an estimation for flu deaths rather than the exact count listed on death certificates.
umm...your assumption completely ignores the fact that total deaths in the US jumped 30% in April.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htmweekly total deaths compared to expected deaths:
98% 2/01
98
98. 2/15
100
101 2/29
101
101 3/14
102
111.
126%. 4/4
139%. 4/11
137.% 4/18
131%. 4/25
the oft-repeated false narrative of 'these are mostly just people tagged with COVID when they happen to die , more people aren't actually dying' is just a plain lie at this point. Anyone who has done even 5 mins of research knows its false
why lie?
I'm not denying COVID has killed people. Even some that would not have died otherwise. But you also have to understand that there can be an excess death toll one month maybe from people who would have died within the next few months but ended perishing a little quicker from COVID. This undoubtedly did happen in nursing homes. There likely will be a dip in nursing home deaths over the next 6 months as many deaths than would have occurred over a period of months were compacted into a shorter time. I think we really have to look at the excess death over the course of the next year to understand the true impact.
There is also the negative public health toll the liberals want to ignore due to the Covid shutdowns. This was totally preventable. People have put off medical care and screenings they absolutely should have had them. This will result in negative health consequences. There are a huge amount of people who may lose their housing or face food shortages due to loss of income. Rising unemployment had huge public health impacts and it will last for a long time after so many businesses have closed and will continue to close. Not to mention the mass of public employees about to lose their jobs because local and state governments have lost billions in revenue. There has been a well-documented increase in drinking and drug abuse. People who have been hurt by the economic impacts face enormous stress which has negative impacts. We have stunted our education system with the school's shutdown.
The media and white-collar workers have this tunnel vision obsession with positive tests and this indoctrination about the hypothetical second wave. Meanwhile, there is real social and human health damage being done that is 100% due to our response to the virus and not the virus itself. People hate to admit they are wrong or look past their own personal fears but the negative impacts of the shutdowns have been enormous and the virus really has not hit harder in the states that had a lower level of response.