I took a look at FL’s COVID-19 numbers

I just looked at what you posted. In your age group (that's 80,803 cases of the 504,768 total), assuming you get a positive covid test result in Florida, you have a 13% chance of hospitalization, and a 4% chance of dying.

In South Carolina, if you get a positive test result, in your age group (41-50 per SC data), you have a 3.3% chance of dying.

What am I missing here. Unless you're taking the total covid case number as the universe of cases among all ages to compare your own situation, and not the ones in your age range. Maybe that's how you rationalize it, who knows. Once you step out of your age bracket, the statistics become incorrect, as you're factoring in all people younger and older. Since numerically more cases are BELOW your age group, this greatly impacts your statistic. And makes it incorrect.

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Well, with dad they said they couldn't test him for covid

Aug 6, 2020, 3:48 PM

after death. His oxygen level dropped to 82 and he was gasping for air just before he passed. They also had not taken his temperature in several days, which was odd. But Mom asked that he be tested and the hospice nurse said you can't test after death. She gave some excuse about the nose drying up, etc. We found that was a flat out lie. So dad died of heart failure. Will never know if caused by covid or not. Doesn't really matter to us, but probably does to the nursing home.

So there's my first hand experience with an under-count, or potential under-count. Without a test, 99% of covid deaths are heart attacks, strokes, or respiratory failure. Even dementia is not a proximal cause of death.

And remember, zero people have ever died from covid. Zero people have ever died from AIDS as a matter of fact. AIDS and covid are not proximal causes of death. For both it's usually respiratory failure. Sometimes with covid it's a heart attack or stroke. But technically, it's NEVER covid that kills. And if you don't test for it, then it gets lumped into those other higher categories, which is happening at nursing homes, I presume.

There is no motivation to over-report covid deaths. And like dad (possibly), a lot are going down as other causes, hence those spikes for the other causes. There's $20 trillion worth of reasons to under-report covid deaths, and no reason to over-report them unless you want to claim it's to oust Trump or some other BS.

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think for yourself sheeple!

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FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!! oh, wait***

Are you making a case for the nanny state?

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong chart.

That’s the same mistake the WIS reporter made

That, and there are undoubtedly a LOT more positives than

"I don't think all the deaths that have been attributed to

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I know it's real because I have firsthand accounts but

I looked at a another dashboard view and

Well, with dad they said they couldn't test him for covid

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And gets rid of the obese and other unhealthy

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Traffic will be better too. Like Bill Burr said, we need a good plague.

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