re: #173 Citizen K

The whole thing is like…how likely is it exactly that someone contracts Covid-19 and dies of an ‘unrelated’ condition? Especially considering that the more we’re learning about it, the more we’re finding that not only do many conditions make it easier to contract Covid, but the disease also aggravates those existing conditions in turn. Like…unless you end up getting the disease and then get hit by a truck, or take a bad blow to the head (which would in turn make the C.O.D. pretty damn obvious), it’s like…yeah, it might not have been the direct cause of death, but you still likely died because of it.

Doesn’t matter. It’s conservative dogma that people are dying “with” COVID not “from” it—with the accompanying conspiracy theory that it’s a monetary thing for hospitals to label everything a COVID related death. The other related talking point is that most of the people dying have already outlived average life expectancy in the US—so no biggie.

Forget that a recent study found that the average person dying from COVID would have lived an additional 10 years. Forget also that the actual evidence strongly supports the position that deaths have been significantly undercounted.

I mean, their talking point for a looong time was that it wasn’t even as problematic as the bad flu season we just had. Aside from COVID deaths already having blown last flu season out of the water, there is probably a really good chance that the “bad” flu season was undetected COVID related fatalities.