I often hear people say that it was not COVID that created

TD Tigers · 2021-01-10T01:58:00.316Z

a death, it was b/c they had preexisting conditions. Wouldn't the person still be alive with said preexisting conditions if they had not gotten COVID? If you die, and you tested positive for COVID, it is extremely likely it was COVID that provided the last necessary step. Just an argument I never understood, but maybe I was missing a different side to it.

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Jan 9, 2021, 9:39 PM

Zero people have died from influenza. Zaro people have died of AIDS. You die from something else in all cases. All these people who cite the statistic that Covid-19 is the proximal cause of death on 6% death certificates means that 6% of death certificates have been incorrectly filled out.

You die from respiratory failure, secondary to pneumonia, or covid pneumonia. Same for AIDS. Most people who die from aids die from pneumonia. Same with the flu.

There is a blank for other conditions on death certificates, and there you usually find hypertension, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, etc. If you have those conditions, they contribute to covid deaths. Your body goes through hell fighting covid, and the flu for that matter. They can cause other problems. Heart attacks. Strokes. Pneumonia and ARS. So there's a lot of covid deaths that are heart attacks also. It can cause kidney failure. All kinds of stuff.

Most people also don't understand the virus is not covid. Covid is the CONDITION/ILLNESS/DISEASE caused by the virus. The VIRUS is called SARS-CoV-2. That is the virus. Infection with it causes a disease called covid-19, which leads to death mostly from respiratory failure, but also many other things.

Diabetes contributes because it weakens your immune system. COPD causes it to be worse. Obesity causes it to be worse. With AIDS, AIDS is not the virus. HIV is the virus, that causes the disease/condition called AIDS. And AIDS causes death eventually if untreated, usually from pneumonia, but not always.

Now say someone dies in a car wreck and tests positive for covid. Well, if you check, you can tell if they had a heart attack. Many fatal crashes in cars are from heart attacks. Say that was the case, AND the guy had covid. Is that car wreck a covid death? Those are judgement calls, and why it now takes a month or two to get a death certificate sometimes. But the vast majority of covid deaths come from people with covid symptoms, who seek medical care, who test positive, who then become ill, get pneumonia, and die. Some die of a heart attack while fighting it as well. But again they're in a hospital on oxygen for covid, so yes, it likely caused the heart attack. And this is why "covid" deaths are likely UNDERREPORTED, because many I promise have been attributed to other causes.

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