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What this means, is that for every infectious disease ever, the official cause of death is not the disease itself. For instance, if you have AIDS, you will die because of a simple infection. Infection will be listed as the main cause of death, but AIDS will be a secondary cause. Basically, the fact that 6% of deaths are listed on the death certificate, means that coroners were lazy in filling out the death certificate, as it should actually be 0. If you go down the list of causes in that CDC data that Brain keeps mentioning, you will find that basically everything is, or could be caused by COVID. Pneumonia, stroke, myocarditis, etc.
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From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
Since we're all MDs and infectious disease specialists now...
Pneumonia, stroke, and myocarditis are not causes, they are effects. Specifically, they are effects of (in no particular order) bacterial infection, viral infection, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, autoimmune disorders, and diabeetus, among others.
Saying that any of the above are a cause of death is a bit like saying that exsanguination is a cause of death. And while it's true that having all of the blood come out of your body does generally result in not being alive, this does not* typically happen spontaneously. It's usually the result of being shot or stabbed. Or gored by a bison.
If a person is shot, and dies as a result of the blood coming out of their body through the hole which the bullet left, do we say "well, akshually, this person died of blood loss, not of the gunshot"?
No, because that would be annoyingly pedantic. And most people are not annoyingly pedantic most of the time. [citation needed]
* = But imagine living in a reality in which, from time to time, someone's blood does just spontaneously fall out of them, and in which we accept this, while tragic, as normal.
Saying that any of the above are a cause of death is a bit like saying that exsanguination is a cause of death. And while it's true that having all of the blood come out of your body does generally result in not being alive, this does not* typically happen spontaneously. It's usually the result of being shot or stabbed. Or gored by a bison.
If a person is shot, and dies as a result of the blood coming out of their body through the hole which the bullet left, do we say "well, akshually, this person died of blood loss, not of the gunshot"?
No, because that would be annoyingly pedantic. And most people are not annoyingly pedantic most of the time. [citation needed]
* = But imagine living in a reality in which, from time to time, someone's blood does just spontaneously fall out of them, and in which we accept this, while tragic, as normal.
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Saying that any of the above are a cause of death is a bit like saying that exsanguination is a cause of death. And while it's true that having all of the blood come out of your body does generally result in not being alive, this does not* typically happen spontaneously. It's usually the result of being shot or stabbed. Or gored by a bison.
for maintaining a theme.DNM
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