Yes Jed I understand your philosophy. The government does things and they do right. Inventions, medicine or . . . Doesn't matter you just have that mindset nothing much to do about. IMHO there is room for other sometimes opposite opinions.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 11:17 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Yes, you are correct about the 6% figure. They merely stated that 6% of >> cases that listed covid19 as the sole cause of death failed to list the >> co-morbidities. >> > > Correct. COVID-19 itself does not kill patients directly as often as it > leaves them open to secondary infections and things like that. > > > But you have fallen into the trap of the CDC's tricky manipulation of >> data. There have been up to 80,000 deaths per year supposedly caused by >> influenza (which strains?). The CDC then gives the mortality rate based >> upon an *estimated* number of infections. In other words, any number they >> want to make up. >> > > No, they do not make up these numbers. The numbers are based on clinical > data from doctors and hospitals, and field studies. They are estimated > because ordinary influenza is not on the list of diseases that doctors must > report. Some forms of influenza have to be reported but not others. See: > > https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001929.htm > > > They then state the mortality rate among *known* covid infections. >> > > That is the only thing they can do. There are no other reliable numbers at > present. There will be more data after widespread antibody tests can be > performed. In any case, we know that COVID-19 kills at least 10 times more > people than influenza in a typical year. Influenza typically kills around > 30,000, although some years a dangerous strain will kill many more. We know > that COVID-19 has only infected a small fraction of the population, because > people have taken precautions such as wearing masks, whereas influenza > infects a much larger fraction. If COVID-19 were to spread as widely as > influenza usually does, it would kill ~40 times more people than influenza. > It would also disable many people for life with permanent lung damage, > strokes, heart problems, amputations and so on. Influenza seldom does that. > So it is far more lethal and serious. > > > >> These people at the CDC, the NIH and the FDA are corrupt to the nines. >> > > Not the ones I know. They are hardworking scientists. I think you should > not generalize about people you know nothing about. > > > In the FDA, and I know this is hard to believe, many of the employees' >> salaries are actually paid by pharmaceutical companies. >> > > That would be against Federal law. I know several people who work or > worked for Uncle Sam, such as my late mother. They cannot accept so much as > a ham sandwich from anyone. Where did you read that? Be careful what you > believe. > >
