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-Removed-It's a little difficult to say what the lethality of the common cold is, as the deaths are classed as viral pneumonia. Ebola is certainly more lethal to those infected than covid but seems to burn itself out - I'm not aware of it spreading outside of a country where there's been an outbreak, but I haven't investigated. The measles is both more lethal (IFR ~ 5%.) and more transmissible than Covid, except that vaccination programs keep it suppressed. The difference is that we don't have a vaccine for Covid.
Also, a discussion based solely on deaths misses the problem that a significant number of covid survivors survive with lung damage.
@no1marauder saidWell yes, but you'll be hard pressed to find an expert who'll attribute a death outside hospital to CoViD more than 28 days after a test. The proximate cause is liable to be MI brought about the stress of having the illness, but can said expert be certain it wouldn't have happened anyway? Other possible CoViD related deaths include falls, I'm imagining an elderly person with neurological damage from the virus. While the government's decision to alter the headline figure might have been driven by a desire to reduce the figures I doubt that you'll get an unequivocal answer from one about whether it was the right thing to do or not.
That was a political decision and you know it.
No "expert" is going to tell you no one dies of COVID19 more than 28 days after a positive test.
@no1marauder
I think in his muddled mind he thinks he has come across a new meme, since he has repeated that crap covid X4 a bunch of times already, and recorded on camera.
@DeepThought
Now we know it is giving more than lung damage, now shown kidneys and heart are attacked also.
@sonhouse saidAnd studies indicate that intelligence and IQ scores decrease after a bout with the virus.
@DeepThought
Now we know it is giving more than lung damage, now shown kidneys and heart are attacked also.
Which kind of explains the Trump rallies.
-Removed-It depends how hard and fast the rule is.
If it says that you can go into hospital with covid and then die 2 months later on a ventilator then yes it’s a manipulation or at least a misrepresentation of the data. I don’t think it qualifies as a conspiracy though, it’s not like it was done in secret by unknown actors.
