Ok, lets step back a second and review how this discussion began. Stay with me here.
Jem posted the original article.
Here4money posted "Breitbart lol" effectively dismissing the entire article and source data because it came from Breitbard (he later said "it was stuff we all knew anyway).
My reply to Here4money:
Right, that was the one I forgot. Ignore the actual data and the source of the data:
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/corona...wD306X7WGszE9YbLryM4P0rU5cuj4siGcUDXtI39_rbl0
But the fact that it was picked up by Breitbart means the data should be thrown out. I swear, Here4money is one giant fucking moron.
Talking about ignoring the data because it came from Breitbart being stupid. It is stupid.
You then say this to me:
So if a person has Diabetes and they were likely to survive another 30 years but caught COVID-19 and died ... then according to you we should not count their death as being due to COVID-19.
I never said anything about not counting any death as COVID simply because a person had diabetes. Not in this thread, nor any other than I can recall. I don't even know what you're on about with this response.
But this was my exact response:
Just going out on a limb here, but based on the data from Italy where the average age of the deceased was 80 years old, if they had diabetes and were that old, they were not likely to live another 30 years. Call me crazy.
That's it. All I said was in Italy, where the average age of the deceased was 80 years old, I don't think you can say they would live another 30 years. I'm talking Italy. Italy only. That was the source of the data in the OP, it was the thread's discussion topic. Italy. Only.
You then ask me:
So let's say they were only going to live another 3 years. Should their deaths not be counted towards the COVID-19 death total? Or are they just expendable.
I don't believe I ever answered this, as Spike's idiocy got me off track. But to answer it late, if the medical result was that Covid was the cause of death - meaning the person died from a Covid related symptoms, then it should be counted as Covid. This should be relatively easy to figure out as the symptoms from Covid are quite different than those from advanced Diabetes. But I'm not a doctor, though I would have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night were one open around me.
Then, as best as I can gather, your conversation with me picks up when you tell Jem something about Brazil and I respond:
This isn't entirely true. There are scientists and health experts now saying that the cost of the lockdown to health might be greater than those it saved.
Which you, of course, question with another googled article on Domestic Violence (which is only one part of the equation, as loss of economic livelihood, increased opioid use, suicides, postponing much needed medical care like chemo, etc also have to be considered)...
Then we get to your delayed response to me on the diabetes 30 year comment (I guess you had to find the right article) and post this:
People with coronavirus are dying 10 years earlier than they would have naturally: Study
The study disproved those who are dying were already close to the end.
https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/covid-19.341849/page-35#post-5096457
Yeah.... so much for let's not count anyone who had a comorbidity as a COVID-19 death since they were at "death's door" anyway.
Most would have easily survived another decade at least.
I
think where you get all crazy is when I respond to Jem's comment on your article with this:
Agreed. So ridiculous. If the average age was 80, we're expected to believe these people are dying 10 years earlier from Covid when they are over 80 with multiple serious pathologies? Who believes this crap?
And that's where you go on and on about me having to read your article (which I did) and the study.
This is a complete forensic analysis of this thread. So let me just tell you this, and you don't have to agree (you won't, I know) and I don't really care if you do or don't.
Based on the
Italian Study which is the point of this thread the average age of the deaths is 80 years old, most of them with multiple pathologies. They did not have 10 years more to live. They did not have 5 more. Some might have, many probably did not. Most 80 year olds with advanced diabetes, advanced heart disease, emphysema, stage 4 or 5 cancer, in hospice, etc...don't. The Italian situation was one of the main reasons for the world going into panic, and it was based on the "OMG all of Italy is dying" commentary, which we now find is complete horseshit. The old and diseased in Italy were dying. That is it.
That's all I'm saying. Have the last word. You're going to anyway.