That's a hard one flacal.... if you hadn't caught covid, would you likely, still be around? Yes.That's true, my hubby's dad had metastasized cancer, terminal when diagnosed, but died from heart failure, but it was the cancer that caused that...But EVERY cancer patient is TOLD they will probably die of something that is not directly cancer.. And that they can not AFFORD exposure to infections of any kind
But with these covid patient deaths of people with preexisting conditions that I've seen reported were things like hypertension, or diabetes, and these people could have lived another 20 to 30 years with medication without this corona virus.... So to me, unless they are on their deathbed before contracting the virus, like with a terminal cancer, then the virus, is what did them in....
Sure.. It's complicated and being DEBATED right now all over the world.. And as the BBC article said, when doctors are under stress, they're gonna go with what the patient was TREATED for. And politicians are gonna tell health dept to chalk them ALL up to Covid.. But you and both know that's not accurate.. Maybe the time to be ACCURATE about this is a year or two away...
I know the situation.. My oncologist calls me her "happiest" patient.. I was diagnosed with CLL in my late 40s.. My immune system is pretty weak, but I've never been treated for it.. And infections of ANY KIND are what might kill me when normal people just had an "infected" hangnail and never needed med help. If I die from an infected hangnail and I had Covid -- It would NOT be the Covid that killed me...
So to me, the Covid was the cause of your death, with your compromised immune system.... yes, I can understand that if your system had not been compromised with your other condition, you likely would have lived.... but you were living, with your condition, prior to dying after contracting covid....
I can see the argument on both sides...
I hope you are taking every precaution possible! Hunker down! PLEASE do not go out of your house grocery shopping or for anything, right now! Have your wife or family or neighbor do it for you!! Are cases low in Tennessee?
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