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If you're going to make these claims could you source them?

seattle_spring 3y ago
I have a bunch of citations below refuting his claim, but it's currently almost dead due to downvotes. Bummer some people would rather keep spreading falsehoods.
- transcriptase 3y ago
  You posted a bunch of citations about the U.S. Canadian hospitals and provinces explicitly made statements Late 2022/Early 2023 saying they were revising their definitions of a Covid death and going to recalculate previously published figures after stories blew up of the exact type of cases I mentioned. People were getting death certificates for loved ones with Covid listed as the cause of death when it was simply and provably not true, even if they did test positive.
twisteriffic 3y ago
They can't. It's a comfortable lie, nothing more.
- mcpackieh 3y ago
  They did. Will you retract your insult?
  - twisteriffic 3y ago
    They didn't. Did you bother to read what they posted? They very obviously didn't read beyond the headline.
    - mcpackieh 3y ago
      I knew you wouldn't.
      - transcriptase 3y ago
        Funny how that works eh? I read those articles when they were first published and again when I linked them. But because the truth is inconvenient, I must certainly be lying.
    - transcriptase 3y ago
      Clown.
hn_ta456 3y ago
UK not Canada, but it was literally the official metric used during the pandemic - “death within 28 days of a COVID test”. Does what it says - no more, no less. https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-report-on-covid-19-deaths/ https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-r...
transcriptase 3y ago
Ok https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6212510 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6212510 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6624173 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6624173 https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coronavirus/2022/3/2/1_5801131.amp.html https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coronavirus/2022/3/2/1_5801... There are plenty more articles about it. This isn’t a Covid denier conspiracy theory or antivax narrative, it was widely reported on throughout 2022 that people were operating under very different definitions of what counts and that some provinces/networks/hospitals/physicians were erring on the side of caution and calling everything short of suicide a Covid death. Quite a few revised their numbers once the media covered it, which is good, but whether that was only reflected on dashboards or was revised downstream I’m not entirely sure.

I have a bunch of citations below refuting his claim, but it's currently almost dead due to downvotes. Bummer some people would rather keep spreading falsehoods.

transcriptase 3y ago
You posted a bunch of citations about the U.S. Canadian hospitals and provinces explicitly made statements Late 2022/Early 2023 saying they were revising their definitions of a Covid death and going to recalculate previously published figures after stories blew up of the exact type of cases I mentioned. People were getting death certificates for loved ones with Covid listed as the cause of death when it was simply and provably not true, even if they did test positive.

twisteriffic 3y ago

They can't. It's a comfortable lie, nothing more.

mcpackieh 3y ago
They did. Will you retract your insult?
- twisteriffic 3y ago
  They didn't. Did you bother to read what they posted? They very obviously didn't read beyond the headline.
  - mcpackieh 3y ago
    I knew you wouldn't.
    - transcriptase 3y ago
      Funny how that works eh? I read those articles when they were first published and again when I linked them. But because the truth is inconvenient, I must certainly be lying.
  - transcriptase 3y ago
    Clown.

hn_ta456 3y ago

UK not Canada, but it was literally the official metric used during the pandemic - “death within 28 days of a COVID test”. Does what it says - no more, no less. https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-report-on-covid-19-deaths/ https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-r...

transcriptase 3y ago

Ok https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6212510 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6212510 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6624173 https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6624173 https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coronavirus/2022/3/2/1_5801131.amp.html https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coronavirus/2022/3/2/1_5801... There are plenty more articles about it. This isn’t a Covid denier conspiracy theory or antivax narrative, it was widely reported on throughout 2022 that people were operating under very different definitions of what counts and that some provinces/networks/hospitals/physicians were erring on the side of caution and calling everything short of suicide a Covid death. Quite a few revised their numbers once the media covered it, which is good, but whether that was only reflected on dashboards or was revised downstream I’m not entirely sure.