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Exactly. That’s the point —- it’s all about assumptions being made for the other 94%. And it’s easy to come up with assumptions. And it’s hard to understand the

• azinman2 6y ago
  No. The death being due to covid isn’t in dispute. It’s about characterizing who is at most risk. You can be young and have health problems while still living for many more decades, but then you got Covid, died, and now you’re part of the 94%. Given 40% of the US is obese and would fit into this 94%, that’s not something to then ignore and say therefore only 6% of the population could be affected by this. That’s an incorrect understanding of the statistics. This misrepresentation has been dangerously incorrectly stated either intentionally or ignorantly by people who have an agenda to push, and that agenda isn’t in service to public health.
  • blumomo 6y ago
    That's one way to interpret the story but that's not how would suggest to understand things. Given your explanation model we could easily argue that every dead person which tested positive for herpes will be accounted to herpes. And a huge chunk of the population has it.
    • azinman2 6y ago
      It’s not one way, it’s the way: https://www.axios.com/fauci-cdc-coronavirus-deaths-data-claim-7d0a7f98-b23a-4b77-b739-bf6629024fbb.html https://www.axios.com/fauci-cdc-coronavirus-deaths-data-clai...
      • azinman2 6y ago
        Furthermore, excess deaths are off the charts, which cannot be explained by these other factors all of the sudden becoming fatal: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
      • blumomo 6y ago
        Glad to hear that you found the one and only way.