Just wondering. Because mass organ failure from sepsis is different than lung failure due to respiratory infection.
ETA: I can’t fucking type.
With the overall deaths over typical years far exceeding the official Covid count, I believe that Covid deaths are greatly under reported; although, some of those “excess” deaths may be because of reluctance to seek medical help for other ailments because of the fear of Covid.
I do not believe that there is a national conspiracy, as has been alleged, among health care workers and institutions to artificially inflate Covid deaths in order to make Trump look bad. Anybody that perpetrates such dangerous falsehoods should be ashamed of themselves.
I don’t think there is a national conspiracy either.
My parents were small children growing up in London during WW2. They had a curfew every night and had to blackout all their windows so that there was no light emitted. There was the Blitz, of course, but thereafter there was the terror-bombing of the V1 and V2 rockets - just completely random and indiscriminate. My grandparents had air raid shelters in their backyards. They lived with rationing well into the 1950s, and I realized (disturbingly recently) that a lot of my mum’s way of cooking things was born out of stretching ingredients to go further, learned from her mum.
Then, of course, there’s those who actually fought WW2. Or built the munitions and equipment. Or served in some other form, as almost certainly everyone did. Iron gates and railings were donated to make tanks. People turned over their yard space to grow vegetables and maybe raise chickens or pigs. They basically just got on with doing what had to be done.
Now, we have every modern convenience and entertainment at our beck and call at home, and we’ve been asked to stay there to protect others and ourselves, and that’s too much to fucking ask.
Climate change protesters like to say that we’re killing the planet with the way we live; but we’re not. We’re making it unlivable for ourselves and a lot of other species. But when we’re gone - and if this COVID meltdown doesn’t convince you that we do not have the capacity to turn back climate change, you’re delusional - the planet will live on just fine, with all the species left on it. In fact, animals have already moved back into places where people are actually staying home.
When we take ourselves out of the picture, the world will just reclaim our space and move on as if we were never here.
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The manager was calmer and nicer than I would have been.
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I wonder how the store did not try to accommodate her needs?? I’d love to see her lawsuit. She’s the reason i say i don’t like people.
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My parents grew up without indoor plumbing, soi have heard some interesting stories. Their stories are not sad but inspirational. They had little to nothing and were happy.
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My parents and their contemporaries lived through the Depression and a devastating World War. They made do and sacrificed personally for the good of the country. People today cannot stay home and read, do house projects, or watch TV and refuse to wear masks in public to protect others because they consider their personal freedoms to be superior to public health and safety. The Trump administration agitates rebellion against local leaders, encourages defiance of local laws and guidelines, and praises those who ignore public health restrictions. Many people are following him like lemmings, and I fear he will be re-elected.
I do not know where all this is headed, but my personal “freedoms” yield to my determination not to be a COVID statistic. I am sad to think my life may become no more than a number and forgotten the next day when there is a new total. I have done some things, and I matter, dammit. Everyone who has died mattered, and to diminish their lives with a callous “they were old” or “they were sick” response to their deaths is immoral and evil.
I have never before been so angry about public events and have never before felt so helpless and powerless to effect change.
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Yesterday I drove into Seguin to buy duck feed at Tractor Supply and to pick up a few items at H-E-B. It was sadly alarming how many people were not wearing masks. Probably 80% or more. I don’t want to be around people who care so little about simple civility. I was raging but keeping it inside so as not to cause a scene. I’m 64 and have asthma and near chronic bronchitis. I’m a tough SOB but I don’t want to have to deal with something life threatening by being exposed to selfish morons. When people talk about their civil rights being infringed, I want to remind them that their cavalier attitude is an infringement on all civilization.
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The anti-maskers are not victims, they are misanthropic miscreants.
I want to know what medical condition means that you can’t wear a mask.
Absolutely this.
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Public health and safety has always trumped personal freedoms. This is why, for example, I am forced to stop my car when approaching a red light. But I’m already moving, and it wears out my brakes to stop and burns more gas to get going again - plus the whole 2 minutes that I have to sit and wait - why can’t I just keep going? It only takes me a second to go through the intersection and then everyone else can go about their business.
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Having to wear a mask while buying groceries is not an infringement of one’s civil rights. Being denied the opportunity to buy groceries because one’s skin is the wrong color is an infringement of civil rights. This is not a difficult distinction to understand. That people conflate the two just screams about the general level of education and critical thinking in this country.
To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.
According to the CDC:
- People under two years of age
- People with breathing problems
- People who can’t remove a mask without assistance
Unless she had a bottle of oxygen on or near her person, she didn’t fucking have a medical condition.
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Toxic breath?
In Texas death certificates have four numbered lines for certifiers to list in order the proximate cause(s) of death. There is an additional line for other underlying conditions.
Ideally one could read a certificate as ‘death due to this caused by that and that other thing that all started with this- (in the setting of this condition)’. Brevity is the norm however.
In all these scenarios, covid is what got the dominoes falling, and absolutely covid should be listed as cause of death.
e.g.
- Multiorgan failure
- Sepsis
- Pneumonia
- Covid 19
Other underlying conditions: end stage kidney disease
Get out of here with your knowledge and information! Who do you think you are?!
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