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Originally Posted by Marathon Man
I don't understand why some people have a need to try to convince all of us that Covid is nothing to worry about.
The second post in this thread is definately worth reading. A few weeks ago I tried to do some research on my own to see if I could tell just how deadly the virus was. In other words, just how many deaths above and beyond normal have we had. It is much too complicated for me to come up with the answer - partly because of the items called out in post #2.
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The very numbers that I cited in my OP came from the same link that was listed in post #2. It provides you the death rate per 1,000 per year. Each of the last 5 years there has been a nominal increase in the death rate. The increase from 2019 to 2020 was less than the increase in any of the prior 5 years. Where are the 220,000 Covid deaths? If Covid killed 220,000 Americans, there would have been a surge in the numbers not a decline. Basically, percentage wise, there was no increase in the death rate. So although 220,000 people were listed as Covid deaths. The number of actual Covid deaths is far less. The vast majority of those coded as Covid deaths died from complications from other issues. Since the number did not spike, it appears that the majority of those people would have died with or without Covid. You can look for yourself, it’s all there statistically on the very website you mentioned.