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"WE HAVE NOT been vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with coro
by JPKab 5y ago
"WE HAVE NOT been vigilant enough at the garden gate when the authorities were required to answer what it actually meant that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference. A big difference. Exactly, the official hospitalization numbers have been shown to be 27 percent higher than the actual figure for how many there are in the hospital, simply because they have corona. We only know that now."
On Saturday morning I went to my barber shop. My barber was talking to me and I relayed to her some of the pain I've been going through lately dealing with my late mother-in-law's bank, insurance, and other accounts. She then told me that she lost her mother 5 months ago to cancer. Her and her family finally got the death certificate, and the death certificate claimed that her mother had died of covid-19. She had terminal cancer and was at the end of a very long battle.
The family had to fight the hospital because they were shocked knowing that she died of cancer and happened to test positive for COVID-19 at some point in the hospital weeks before she died.
The hospital eventually fixed the "error". I put error in quotes because there's a huge financial incentive for hospital administrators to do this. They get large sums of money from the US federal government for every covid patient or death.
This is an anecdote of course. Not real data. But as my barber pointed out, and I personally experience with my mother-in-law's death, most people might not even see this on the death certificate and if they do they don't have the stomach to fight it. They are grieving and simply want to move on from the pain.
What is the actual data on this? How many deaths are being incorrectly classified as covid related to maximize revenue for immoral hospital administrators?
We don't know. But what I can say is if this is a rare occurrence, It's pretty low probability for me to encounter more than one person who has described this to me. My suspicion is, based purely on economic incentives, this is fairly common place.
Really happy to see this Danish newspaper finally doing what the fourth estate is supposed to do:
Challenging the powerful and the elite rather than being their lap dogs.
I canceled my New York Times in Washington Post prescriptions several months ago. I still really enjoyed much of the content in both publications, but it became a big negative emotion to open them up and see the blatant evidence of how corrupted they have become. They don't challenge power unless the power is run by someone they don't like. If they happen to find the person in charge less objectionable they will happily do their bidding.
- oriettaxx 5y agoI understand! Yesterday I was mad just by reading the Wikipedia page about Pfizer; I then ended up in a revealing documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Blood_(2013_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_the_Blood_(2013_film) which now is in netflix https://www.netflix.com/title/70268209 https://www.netflix.com/title/70268209 and got even more mad. I think the "The Fourth Estate" lost trust on their readers as we are doing ourselves with the people around us, and this is not doubt a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
- Per_Bothner 5y agoWhile I'm sure there is some mis-classification of causes of death, note that often there is not a single clear cause of death. Specifically, someone with terminal cancer might still die to Covid. Or the cancer (and treatments) might have weakened them enough that they were more susceptible to Covid. In that case: did they die from Covid or cancer? In a sense both. A story from your barber is not only anecdotal, it is quite possibly based on misunderstanding - especially if the barber is inclined to distrust Government. In general, there is reason to believe undercounting Covid is more of a problem than overcounting. I just read that in India there may have been 6 times as many Covid deaths than officially reported. To really estimate Covid fatalities it is not enough to count reported Covid deaths, you also need to look at other numbers - specifically "excess mortality": How many people have died in the last 2 years compared to in "normal" years? See https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid . These numbers suggest that official numbers are if anything undercounting Covid deaths, even in the US (which has good reporting in detahs in general), and multiple times undercounted worldwide. True, a few of the excess deaths are likely indirect rather than from Covid itself: Work-from-home leading to less traffic leading to more speeding leading to more traffic fatalities. People not getting or delaying needed medical care because of full hospitals - or just fear of getting infected. Homeless people freezing to death because they fear shelters (or shelter capacity being reduced). And so on. I'll leave it to experts to try to estimate these effects. Regardless, Covid has killed a lot of people, and arguing that the "mass media" is deliberately exaggerating the danger is plain disinformation and wishful thinking.