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I want you to understand something about "excess deaths".
If Dick Cheney fires a gun at you, the bullet ricochets off a tree, and you get hit, would you say the tree shot you?
The mismatch of "COVID deaths" and "excess deaths" is a natural and misleading consequence of how deaths are recorded.
If blood clots from COVID cause a stroke (which happens all the time), then COVID killed you. Your cause of death will be listed as "stroke".
If COVID wrecks your immune system (which it is already doing), and then you die because you can't fight off pneumonia, COVID killed you. Your cause of death will be listed as "pneumonia".
If COVID wrecks your heart (which it likely will), and you die of heart disease as a result, COVID killed you. Your cause of death will be listed as "heart failure".
If COVID causes an aggressive cancer (which it does) that takes your life, COVID killed you. Your cause of death will be listed as "cancer".
If COVID disables you (which it probably will) and you lose your job and your home and freeze to death in the streets because there's no social safety net (Surprise!), then COVID killed you, and capitalism was the passer-by who took your wallet and boots rather than help you. There will be no record of your cause of death.
"Excess deaths" from the pandemic are around 27 million and climbing steadily. By the time you read this there'll be more. Acknowledged COVID deaths are just over 7 million.
Takeaway: COVID's chronic phase and other long term effects are far more deadly than its acute phase.
It's not too late to resume protecting yourself and your loved ones.
(Consider: When you first contract HIV, you get a week of cold symptoms, then you recover. COVID is "just like getting a cold" the same way that HIV is "just like getting a cold": Not at all.)
