2020 Suicides Lower Despite Warnings
04-03-2021, 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by skywatch
My argument is more like “let’s not borrow 20 trillion dollars from China (money we cannot hope to ever be able to payback - how will that work out?), destroy our children’s education and put them over a year behind by closing schools for no good reason, and destroy millions of small businesses to “flatten the curve” for a year (is it flat yet?) cause we are worried about a disease that is not much worse than the flu and overwhelming affects infirm, obese, 75 year old and up people living in nursing homes that will realistically die soon anyway. YeeHaw.
04-03-2021, 04:26 PM
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How many of those deaths were exclusively from COVID—perfectly healthy people who suddenly died of it? How many were stable people with comorbidity that died of COVID who would have had a life expectancy greater than one year? By age group? Until you break out the detail, of course, it’s terrible.
04-03-2021, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by galaxy flyer
How many of those deaths were exclusively from COVID—perfectly healthy people who suddenly died of it? How many were stable people with comorbidity that died of COVID who would have had a life expectancy greater than one year? By age group? Until you break out the detail, of course, it’s terrible.
04-03-2021, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by FlewUnderWires
Ok. Then why are total deaths insanely higher than previous years if it was all people that were going to die that year anyway?
04-03-2021, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by FlewUnderWires
Ok. Then why are total deaths insanely higher than previous years if it was all people that were going to die that year anyway?
04-03-2021, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Desdi
Question more appropriate would be (and wont be known until we look back) will be the graphs for 2022/23/24 and will those lines be below the pre covid lines. Did Covid take out a significant chunk of those that sadly would have met their demise from their underlying conditions/ advanced age in the next few years. Just food for thought.
04-03-2021, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by FlewUnderWires
So do you predict half a million fewer than average deaths next year?
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04-03-2021, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by FlewUnderWires
Ok. Then why are total deaths insanely higher than previous years if it was all people that were going to die that year anyway?
04-03-2021, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Red Forman
I’ve said this many times now and no one has the guts to respond. I work for a very large life insurance company. In 2020 they did pay out a lot of COVID death claims, but when you compare past years they are paying out a normal amount of death claims. Literally the only difference is what column the cause of death goes into.
I trust cdc total deaths more than “I work in life insurance”
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