Brock Talon
That was an excellent post! People that only listen to CNN and their local news network will not reason with your facts and logic you posted.
Others listed are heart failure and cardiac arrest. OK, again, how many have died of some form of heart disease every year, year after year of these conditions? This has always been one of the biggest killers of U.S. citizens, mainly because we are as a group obese and out of shape. But don't put that all on COVID.
Others are: renal failure, respiratory disease, diabetes and the like. Again, these are all killers by themselves.
Yet with COVID, we do it backwards. If a patient has a heart attack and dies, sure, maybe COVID finished them off. But they died because of the heart attack, with a complication of COVID. Just like we would say about AIDS. But that is NOT how it is reported and counted by the media and the medical community.
I use this analogy that frustrates people. Most of them do not even try to understand my analogy. I use this analogy to make the your point you posted above:
Let's say you and I are in a boxing match that has nine rounds. We are both physically fit for this fight . Every round of the match you are hurting me. My stamina is weakened. I continue to fight without going down on the mat. This fight is really taking a toll on my body, but I somehow make it to the 9th round.
Now, instead of you coming out for the 9th round, they send in a 12 year old kid that is just learning to box. He comes out and throws one punch and knocks me out. My question is : Did this 12 year old, who just threw only one punch, actually knock me out? They always answer, ''yes he did''! You cannot make them understand that I had so many ''underlying conditions'' from the fight, his one punch did not knock me down.