teedubbya wrote:Tail you don’t have a good grasp on how the deaths are counted/classified. Or who has been tested and when.
And assuming you have it without testing is part of an undercount in terms of deaths and likely cases.
Ironically the flu numbers are predicted/extrapolated year in year out. Not actual like covid.
You are simply wrong.
Covid deaths are way underreported period. No matter how much you don’t want that to be. They just are lol. They are. I’m not even sure why folks are even talking like that other than politics. It’s a given.It just is.
Go back and re-read the discussion.
I didn't say that the overall numbers are over or under reported. You have simply assumed that. Not sure why (yes I am. So you can try to sound like the smartest guy in the room on a subject. But i digress...)
I'm saying there are no covid deaths labeled as influenza. That was the premise on the table.
And maybe I'm a bit of a homer here. Maybe I'm viewing it in a state where everyone has access to a hospital or a doctor.
But there is NOBODY that has died from flu like symptoms without being tested for the China Flu. Maybe my "since April" timeframe is a bit of a hyperbole. And I'm sure some false negatives have added to the confusion. But you tell me that "I don't know who was tested and when". But neither do you. Yet you make more assumptions (you do that often) to make your point. Even when it's not what I was arguing.
It's covid covid covid 24/7.
It's a pandemic.
What doctor would watch a patient die, FROM FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS, and not test for the 'rona? And then just list it as a common flu.
The entire premise is ridiculous.
The doctor could probably be sued for malpractice.
So the only thing I'm "simply wrong" about is the argument you're having in your own head.
Guilty. I'll do better in the future.