[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Gulfcoast

I know. I was attempting to use a little humorous bad math to demonstrate how preposterous some of the numbers are out there.

Of course, the flu did not just miraculously vanish and car accidents did decline because people were driving less. Yet, I have still heard tales about car accident victims' deaths being labeled as Covid related. I've heard of a person, who died from sepsis stemming from an untreated urinary tract infection, have their death labeled Covid.

The CDC has confirmed that the number of deaths caused by Covid alone are pretty low. Most of the deaths had significant other causes associated with them.

That explains why the schools that have reopened along with service industry and healthcare workers haven't been absolutely decimated by the virus. In fact, they've fared pretty darned well.

I seem to remember lots of health care workers dying in NYC early in the Pandemic.