Now our country has been turned upside down for nearly two weeks now. Our economy in shambles all for a virus that Germany is reporting a .3% death rate for... what a fucking joke. We need to push back hard. I'm especially sick of cucks like posobiec who bought the hype hook line and sinker and claiming that this virus was way more lethal than the flu but so far there is zero evidence of that.
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I'd say they are doing it right. First, it isn't generally possible to know which of several comorbidities contributed the final insult to push the patient over. Second, how much is it going to matter? You already have statistics enough to predict how long a cancer patient, a heart patient, a heart patient with cancer, etc. will live. It will be a range with increasing probability of death as time goes on. However, when you have a bunch of people, and they all have this one common factor, virus infection, and they are all dead short of their expected lifespan, be it ever so short already, you can be pretty sure that a lot of those final insults are due to the virus and it is quite fair to attribute the death to the virus. This is "excess mortality/morbidity." The countries that are trying to pass the excess off to co-existing problems are still going to have an excess, it will just look like a bad period for cancer, etc, patients. Over the scale of a year, if these deaths are dispersed like that and if it doesn't increase too much, the excess will get smoothed over, but it will not disappear.