Rigby5
Diamond Member
sure we do....If a person has Cancer and eventually dies from a cold, we don't say the person died of a cold.
if a person has cancer, and they are hit by a car and killed, we do not say they died of cancer....
if a person has cancer, and they died of pneumonia, the cause of death is pneumonia....
COVID is a viral pneumonia in those who get sick, is my understanding.... all deaths are from this viral Pneumonia, regardless of their underlying conditions..... or no underlying conditions.... pneumonia is what kills them..... I had heard????
Getting hit by a car is an indicator of how dangerous cars are, regardless of whether the person hit was dying slowly from cancer or not.
But if ALL those dying from COVID-19 are compromised and dying from something else, and COVID-19 would not otherwise have pushed them over the edge, then they are not an indicator of how dangerous COVID-19 is and should NOT be used.
Slight detail also is that the people are not dying from viral pneumonia. They are dying from bacterial pneumonia or from our own immune system attacking our own lungs. It is not really a viral pneumonia. The virus is just setting up the conditions that make it more likely to happen. There is viral pneumonia, but COVID-19 is not causing that. We can tell because quinine helps because it suppresses the immune system. If it were a viral pneumonia, then something that suppresses the immune system would make it worse instead of helping.