Increase in People Dying at Home

So it sounds like you're both stupid but in different ways

Congrats?

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when I said this coronavirus was bullshite.

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Yeah, you showed her!

Maybe there’s a spike in people dying at home because everyone is at home?

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Experts say it’s possible that some of the jump in at-home death stems from people infected by the virus who either didn’t seek treatment or did but were instructed to shelter in place, and that the undercount is exacerbated by lack of comprehensive testing.

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It’s also possible that the increase in at-home deaths reflects people dying from other ailments like heart attacks because they couldn’t get to a hospital or refused to go, fearful they’d contract COVID-19.

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I mean, these sound like pretty reasonable assumptions

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What, specifically, is the problem with the article?

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Karen posted it on Facebook

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So it sounds like you're both stupid but in different ways

Congrats?

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The people who think it's all a hoax and the people so afraid that they're scared to leave their house are two sides of the same coin.

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Some people who are ill and dying know that If they go to a hospital to die, their love ones will be precluded from seeing them in their last hours and are choosing instead to die at home.

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Yep.

Plus people scared to go to hospital so die from things they might have survived with timely help.

Another consequence of shutdown.

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I have been saying that we have no idea how many are dying because they aren't getting proper treatment for other ailments.

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This is the downside of the stupid orders to shutdown everything in hospitals not related to Wuhan flu management put in place by state governments and supported by those too afraid to walk out their front doors.

Clinics offered a great buffer for those who had ailments and needed evaluation to determine progression.

We removed that and forced them to either come to the ER or stay at home.

Add this to the list of retarded stances taken by governments, the medical community (primarily administrators), and the dumbasses who think every element of society should be closed off.

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We removed that and forced them to either come to the ER or stay at home.

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I had a cousin that couldn't get her ongoing cancer treatments at MD Anderson. She passed away a little over a week ago. She was going to anyway eventually but I have little doubt this sped that along.

I have an uncle dealing with health issues including strokes. He is "visiting" his Dr via Zoom. You can't tell me he is getting the medical attention he may need. No telling if this will shorten his life but I think a good argument can be made that it is possible.

Now multiply that by millions and you see why so many of us think the measures we have taken were too draconian and will hurt more than it helps.

So shelter at home is........ killing people?