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Originally Posted by russellw
If we follow your (flawed) logic then the actual root cause of death is being born.
You are talking about two entirely different things. Terminal illnesses will (in Australia at least) be recorded as a cause of death even where Coronavirus is present based on the guidelines issued to health practitioners.
However, we aren't talking about people with terminal illness, we are talking about those who have some underlying medical condition that makes them more likely to die from the virus if they contract it.
Those underlying medical conditions include asthma (11% of the population); cardiovascular disease (18.3% of the population) and CRD (23.2% - although that includes some of the asthma patients) all of which people can (and do) live with for decades.
If they then contract the virus and die earlier than they otherwise would have then the virus is the cause of death not their pre-existing condition.
As above.
Based on earlier comments about thinning out the weak from the herd (which I don't endorse), perhaps we should just euthanise anyone with an underlying medical condition that might increase their chance of dying if they contract Coronavirus so that we can improve the statistics. By the best estimates I can get that would be roughly:
7.4M who have a diagnosed CRD;
1.5M living with cancers;
4.2M with Cardiovascular diseases: and
4.2M who are immunocompromised.
Some of the cancer patients will be in the immunocompromised group but certainly not all as there are other reasons for that condition.
Let's round it out an even 15M (which will include children) or a nice round 60% of the population.
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So if someone has a serious but non fatal gunshot wound which gets a toxic infection and that person dies, what is the cause of death???