08-06-2021, 07:34 PM
preexisting conditions
Before COVID, pneumonia was an infection that could often lead to death for elderly patients with underlying conditions. Their cause of death will be listed as pneumonia because that is what ultimately killed them.
Would they have died if they hadn’t contracted pneumonia? Probably not. So it’s a leap to imagine that underlying conditions somehow make it an acceptable death if pneumonia or COVID pushes them over the edge.
You will quickly learn in a statistics class that 1 does not equal 1.31. Or from any basic math course. The only way these leaps of logic can be made (cause of death, what numbers mean) is by not understanding medical terminology which has been in use long before COVID, and how to interpret statistics. Without that knowledge a person can come to almost any conclusion, and almost all of those conclusions will be incorrect.
Before COVID, pneumonia was an infection that could often lead to death for elderly patients with underlying conditions. Their cause of death will be listed as pneumonia because that is what ultimately killed them.
Would they have died if they hadn’t contracted pneumonia? Probably not. So it’s a leap to imagine that underlying conditions somehow make it an acceptable death if pneumonia or COVID pushes them over the edge.
You will quickly learn in a statistics class that 1 does not equal 1.31. Or from any basic math course. The only way these leaps of logic can be made (cause of death, what numbers mean) is by not understanding medical terminology which has been in use long before COVID, and how to interpret statistics. Without that knowledge a person can come to almost any conclusion, and almost all of those conclusions will be incorrect.