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> "If you have terminal cancer but you die due to Corona, then it is listed as Corona that kills you [1]" If you die because you have Covid-2019 and your lungs
by bad_user 7y ago
> "If you have terminal cancer but you die due to Corona, then it is listed as Corona that kills you [1]"
If you die because you have Covid-2019 and your lungs get filled with liquid, then it's definitely Covid-2019 that kills you, not the cancer. And how many people have terminal cancer right now?
I find this narrative particularly dangerous, because the chronic diseases that have been associated with Covid-2019 mortality, like cardiovascular disease or diabetes, are very much manageable with proper treatment. Yet the narrative is that these people are dying anyway, even if they might be having decades of productive life in them.
So the narrative is not only inhumane, it's also bullshit.
- gadders 7y agoI think you are missing the point. I'm not saying "Those people would have died anyway" I'm saying that you can't tell if COVID-19 is more deadly than the flu in a reliable way because mortality is being recorded differently for other infections such as the flu.
- thu2111 7y agoIf you die because you have Covid-2019 and your lungs get filled with liquid, then it's definitely Covid-2019 that kills you, not the cancer But the stats don't track if you died because "your lungs get filled with liquid". They only track if you die and the virus was present in a PCR test. I find this narrative particularly dangerous And yet you failed to understand it properly. It's faulty and facile reasoning like yours that is leading Twitter to delete tweets by elected national leaders; they think they're much smarter than they really are.