[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Great post!!!!

Having dealt with the reporting requirements for 35 years, I can definitely state you are 100% correct. The amount of effort that goes into gathering data for the state and federal "regulators" is incredible. And since the people who demand that data have absolutely no idea what they are looking at, it really is a huge waste of time. Of course, they do not want to know what they are getting, since that leaves them free to spin it anyway they like.

My favorite wildly inaccurate spin revolves around a Hopkins "study" that implied 375,000 Americans die each year in hospitals from "medical mistakes" It's a great spin to put on flawed data to push a political agenda. The reality is that he overwhelming majority of the "errors" revolve around a pill being administered outside the 1/2 hour either way window, even if it is Tylenol. So, for example, a patient with stage 4 pancreatic carcinoma has a tylenol ordered at 6:30. The nurse has from 6:00 to 7:00 to administer it, otherwise it is counted as a "medication error", even if given at 7:01. When that patient dies of their disease 3 weeks later, it was counted as a "death due to medical error"---nice study design----makes no distinction between death with or due to, and does not account for the severity and relevance of the "error". And this is what hospitals have to put up with all the time.

Imagine what this would be like in other occupations.

***A mechanic changes you oil, but fills it with 1/2 OUNCE less oil than the manual states. The driver gets into a fatal car accident 4 weeks later and some government authority, run by a farmer, deems it a death due to mechanic negligence.

***A waitress accidentally gives you ketchup instead of hot sauce for you breakfast potatoes which you just accept and use. Three weeks later you die of intestinal cryptosporidiosis and the government agency run by a plumber deems it a death due to negligent food service (no mention that the victim was HIV positive and that you can't get cryptosporidiosis from ketchup)

Extreme analogies, I admit it, but it's not too far from the truth, which is why I tend to go "ape $**t" when some bozo throws that statistic out here on TOTV.

So you're saying that those MVAs and Gun Shot victims in Illinois, who died and tested Covid Positive post mortem, didn't die of Covid?

No way!