Cancers have become ‘turbo cancers’. Why?

That doesn't make sense.

Several I know of died directly from issues caused by coronavirus disease due to the SARS-COV-2 virus.

I do not understand how somebody can say a 40 year old man who suffered from coronavirus disease that caused pneumonia did not die from the disease. That does not make sense.

And a young girl who got COVID which caused a lung issue resulting in a stroke...how is that not due to the disease?

 

I trust my doctor because I know him and his education exceeds mine in the area.

Regarding those I knew who died of covid, I knew some of their doctors.

One was anti-covid vaccination because he thought (and I suppose still does) that the risk of serious illness due to covid didn't justify the vaccine. He also knows our acquaintance died of covid, but that is a risk called life.

People die of the flu every year. We know this. People die of covid every year. We know this.

We know what COVID does to the body. We know most will recover just fine. And we know many won't. Just like the flu.

COVID deniers are now, no different from flat earthers or moon landing deniers.

In the other side we have COVID panic folk. They are like climate alarmists.

One extreme sect denies facts and the other exaggerates facts. Both are equally wrong.

 

You are allowing those who exploit for profit color your concept of reality.

I agree people exploited the situation for money, power, and political gain.

That does not mean the thing they exploited did not exist.


I got my bill in for my knee replacement. $117,000.00.
Now, I only pay a little over $2k. Insurance didn't pick up $114,000. They paid under half. The rest will be written off and used for tax advantages. That does not mean that I didn't need the surgery.

People on this board have had covid and recovered just fine. Most said it was like a bad flu. Some said they just had no energy. We know people die of the flu. We know people die of chickenpox.

How foolish would we be to say people can't die of COVID? Very.

Now...if you want to claim numbers were inflated for money, I'll agree that is a probability.

But what is being said is people don't die of COVID. That is an irrational conspiracy claim.

 

I'd have to ask you to define "many".

At the start we had people here saying SARS-COV-2 didn't exist. When that played out it became "nobody dies of the virus".

Talking with people who have had covid, most said it was like a bad flu (I have had neither, so I can't say from personal experience).

Well, over 50,000 people die of the flu each year. If is worse than the flu I really can't see how many didn't die of the disease.

Then I have to consider the type of virus.

SARS-CoV was geographically limited. But it had a 10% mortality rate.

I can't, with any amount of integrity, believe that SARS-COV-2 was somehow more benign.

So I have to say that many died of covid. BUT I also believe the numbers were inflated for political reasons and greed.


Now that the COVID pandemic and panic (and income) is in the past we can look at current cases.

I live in SC. We had a little over 500 hospitalized for COVID last week. So it is a little up, but not much. And given the population it isn't a concern. Our flu rate has decreased a little.

The importance of acknowledging these diseases is that people can treat them. For the most part, neither are serious. But in many cases both should be treated so that they do not cause issues.

And for this each needs to be identified (a corona virus is not an influenza virus). My concern with both is mostly with the elderly. Nursing homes are more a concern because of how viruses spread.

 

Oh ..I agree there.

My concern is that such an inflation of numbers will make people not think it would a serious (depending on their health, of course).

 

I don't know. I know we had some in SC all of those years, but during the pandemic I would expect the numbers to be very low (the spread of influenza is primarily dependent on social contact as the virus has a short survival rate outside of the body).

If the number of flu deaths did not drop sharply during those years then it would indeed be very strange.