Covid 19 warning
For what it's worth, I just received news a good friend of mine passed away this morning from Covid 19. He got while RVing and they were being careful. His wife also go it, probably from him, but just...
Forum Discussion
Tequila wrote:
Mike that assumes you actually know the number of cases. Statistics are a funny thing, change one parameter and the entire overall picture changes. With a disease like covid the cause of death can be questionable. Since it causes pneumonia, how many deaths get reported as pneumonia or vice versa? The best way may be to compare total deaths in a fixed area with those of the previous year. In Mexico City for example those are up 160% and that number does not jive with the reported covid deaths by a long shot. That indicates the numbers there are either being covered up, or a large number are dying at home without ever seeing a hospital. I suspect the latter. I do know for example that all hospitals are 100% full in Puerto Vallarta, my brother in law lives there.
I know the actual number of cases and deaths. It's shown on that website.
Again, look at the website, and see the 2nd column (Total Cases = confirmed cases) and column 4 (Total Deaths).
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The numbers get fuzzy (but support the more dire narratives) when you start using the entire population of a country as a basis for your morbidity rates from the virus, because that's where you don't know how many people have actually got it. That's why the only fact based morbidity rate has to be based on verified numbers, aka Total Cases and Total Deaths as a result. I agree that if you take the entire population and calculate the morbidity rate based on that, everything looks worse, but you've crossed over into hypotheticals and speculation at that point.
I can agree to disagree.
