you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Tom_Bombadil 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The remaining 94% of deaths were casualties of people with serious comorbidities

Ntot quite right.

High BP is one of the common listed comorbidities and most people live for decades with it. Obesity too. And diabetes. Hardly serious, and very common.

You left out one crucial detail. Everyone dying from this is 70, or older.

Survival rates from the virus. 0-19 years: 99.997%. 20-49 years: 99.98%. 50-69 years: 99.5%. 70+ years: 94.6%.

Most people die when they're over 70.

This is completely normal.

So I'm not shitting myself as a chubby fifty year old.

They are reclassifying every normal elderly death a Coco (if they can get away with it).

This is a hoax.

[–]GConly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

left out one crucial detail. Everyone dying from this is 70, or older.

No, 90% of the dead are 70 plus. Not all. A lot of these people will have had a good decade plus left in them. They weren't all circling the drain waiting for a nudge.

It's also a lot more virulent in people with dark skin living in temperate climes, thanks to endemic vitamin D deficiency.

It's about as bad as a bad flu, but we don't have a vaccine for it hence the deaths. We're probably having a higher mortality than we'd normally see because we had a really mild flu year in 2019, and we have a lot of elderly just waiting to catch the next respiratory infection and die.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A lot of these people will have had a good decade plus left in them. They weren't all circling the drain waiting for a nudge.

Actually:

They weren't all circling the drain waiting for a nudge.

FTFY

CDC: 94% of COVID-19 deaths had contributing medical conditions

The remaining 6% either had an undiagnosed medical condition, or they were so old that there was no reason for an autopsy.

Exactly like the flu, because Coco19 is the flu. Literally.