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> and per Occam's razor, COVID is the best explanation we have for the excess deaths. I don't buy that. It upsets me how people skirt around what should be a
by spookthesunset 4y ago
> and per Occam's razor, COVID is the best explanation we have for the excess deaths.
I don't buy that. It upsets me how people skirt around what should be a straightforward, reasonable question to answer. "Did people die with covid or from covid". Without knowing that, all you can do is look at shadows. What age bracket did these deaths come from? Does it line up with what we know about who is most at risk from covid?
... And even then, the demographics most at risk of covid are the same that are at risk for many, many other things too. And when we scared the living fuck out of people such that they stopped getting routine care a lot of deaths could start to occur.
I've yet to hear any "expert" actually assert that the "official death count" is composed of only people who died as a direct result of covid. All I ever hear is people dancing around the issue. Which really ought to make one wonder about the statistics presented. After all Occam's Razor would suggest that the simplest course of action for these "experts" would be to assert that all deaths were "from covid"--they'd love to assert that. Yet they dont. Why is that? Hmmmmmm........
- hazmazlaz 4y agoExcept it's not a straightforward answer at all. I'm not even in medicine and I can intuitively see how unclear the answer to that question could be. Take someone who is a lifelong smoker and gets COVID and dies from COPD/Chronic Respiratory Failure. What killed them, the COVID or the smoking? This is probably one of the most elementary examples of how complicated determining cause of death can be, I am sure there are many many more that someone who is a professional in that field could cite.