So you're saying herd immunity works. But doesn't address the cause of death
When the lethality of the virus is 0.02% you can achieve herd immunity.
The lethality of the coronavirus was 100 times higher. At those levels achieving herd immunity means the death of millions, and not thousands.
So it's a matter of how many people you're willing to sacrafice, and how many are too many.
If you're willing to lose 25 million Americans, then go for herd immunity.
No here you go with bullshit. COVID 19 caused deaths are not above 10,000 remember they count any death as covid related if you have the virus regardless if the virus was the reason for your death.
The CDC currently puts the number of confirmed deaths at about 100,000. But even the “best estimate” 0.26% fatality rate is a significant overestimate because of how the CDC is counting deaths. The actual rate is fairly close to a recent bad year for the seasonal flu. And though public health officials have been transparent about how they are counting coronavirus deaths, the implications for calculating the infection fatality rate are not appreciated.
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This is of course nonsense. The idea that people just so happen to die at the same time as having COVID in unrelated events is so overblown. I’m not saying it’s never happened, but the idea that it is anywhere near statistically significant is not supported by any actual data. Furthermore, it is counterbalanced by the undercounting since a number of people died of COVID out of hospital without testing.
No it's not nonsense when it's a fact. COVID 19 caused deaths are much lower than are reported.
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There is no data to support it being “much lower”.
Medical examiners from
Colorado to Michigan use the same definition. In Macomb and Oakland counties in Michigan, where most of the deaths in that state occurred, medical examiners
classify any death as a coronavirus death when the postmortem test is positive. Even people who died in suicides and automobile accidents meet that definition.
Such expansive definitions are not due to rogue public health officials. The rules direct them to do this. “If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death,” White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx recently
noted.
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