Do you think the Covid pandemic was exaggerated?

[wwkirk]

Do you think it was an overreaction? Although so far there's been 6.1 million deaths due to Covid. So you can't deny it had a certain amount of affect/effect to the world.

But even if Covid and this pandemic never happened do you believe their would have been as much deaths due to deaths by accidents (like car accident deaths) or other ways of dying basically.

Because everything became a lockdown in most countries to some point. These other risk of ways of dying decreased so who knows maybe it all balanced out in the end.

Also did life expectancy lower because of Covid or not so much?

I don't know know any of these answers just wanting to hear what your perspectives are on this.

A relative of mine was said to have died from Covid. He was over 70 years old, and was neither hospitalized nor sick beforehand. The medical personnel quickly assessed that Covid was the cause of death and that was that. But personally, I don't know if the assessment was accurate due to a less than rigorous public policies in attributing deaths to Covid.

I'll never know the answer, but at least the rest of the family aren't in doubt and are at peace, as much as they can be.

 

[esdoornblad]

How many people died or lost years of their life due to closure of gyms and team sports (where the majority of people get their physical activity from), missing checkups/surgeries, staying inside more, higher stress levels, higher suicide rates and just being unhealthier in general? I'd reckon a lot of the excess deaths can be attributed to lockdown and other excessive options taken by government, and a lot of the damage is yet to be told. Not to mention the supply chain disruptions pushing hundreds of millions of people to starvation, a lower quality of life and hyperinflated currencies in many nations.

Exactly. You scare the shit out of people for 2 years, fire them from their jobs, mask their kids, force vaccinate them, repeat fear porn on TV 24/7, reduce medical care and screening, limit healthy activities, increase day-drinking and weight gain through work-from-home, and then blame all deaths on C19!

What a steaming pile of bull$hit

 

[gatchaman]

Exactly. You scare the shit out of people for 2 years, fire them from their jobs, mask their kids, force vaccinate them, repeat fear porn on TV 24/7, reduce medical care and screening, limit healthy activities, increase day-drinking and weight gain through work-from-home, and then blame all deaths on C19!

What a steaming pile of bull$hit

Now do Islamic terrorism and climate change.

 

[esdoornblad]

No. Actual deaths are closer to 20 million worldwide. If not for the vaccines, they’d be considerably higher.

Nope. Statistical analyses show that vaccination rate is, remarkably, not correlated with mortality reduction. In fact, highly vaccinated countries like South Korea are doing much worse after rollout than before.

 

[TheRealHNIC]

Are you serious or just stupid? How is that a conflict of interest or bias??? I made zero extra money and probably worked 15-25 hours more each week taking care of ignorant people like you. If you want to know why the shortage of medical professionals continue to increase, look at this thread.

Out of those 55-60hrs you spent taking care of people how many of those hours a week did you spend discussing diet, exercise, and lifestyle?

 

[Andy Capp]

Exaggerated? No.

The Lancet: Global death toll of COVID-19 pandemic may be more than three times higher than official records, estimates of excess deaths indicate

 

[uppercutbus]

Nope. Statistical analyses show that vaccination rate is, remarkably, not correlated with mortality reduction. In fact, highly vaccinated countries like South Korea are doing much worse after rollout than before.

Also Vietnam. Deaths increased after the vax.

 

[Shadiata]

Exaggerated? No.

The Lancet: Global death toll of COVID-19 pandemic may be more than three times higher than official records, estimates of excess deaths indicate

"may"...sounds like absolute science

 

[Andy Capp]

I know a lot of EMTs, critical care nurses, and travel nurses. They were all making bank, over worked, and really worried about what was happening. Whole floors of our main hospital were converted to covid care. While I don't personally know anyone who died from it, all of my medical friends know multiple people, including young and healthy people who died. I don't think it was overblown. I think that our culture despises weakness and old age, so people dying from it weren't concerning.

What's the first thing you think when you hear a young and healthy person died from it? Their fault. Low vitamin D. Probably had an underlying skinny fat condition. Disgust. Wouldn't happen to you. The kind of person who would die, should die.

I don't know about other people, that's not the first thing I think. Not even the second, third, or fourth thing. I get that the WR is where empathy goes to die so I hope you're so I hope you're addressing someone specific, but yuck--what a shitty attitude toward the loss of a human life if the average person really thinks this way.

 

[Merlotte's]

I still don’t know anyone who came down with symptoms much worse than a cold. My eldest uncles and aunts got it and had sniffles for a few days.

 

[Andy Capp]

"may"...sounds like absolute science

They aren't the only ones to have compiled excess death data.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

 

[Shadiata]

They aren't the only ones to have compiled excess death data.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

Yes...the CDC. Trusted and reliable

 

[Greco_Wiz]

Nope. Statistical analyses show that vaccination rate is, remarkably, not correlated with mortality reduction. In fact, highly vaccinated countries like South Korea are doing much worse after rollout than before.

Not how “statistical analyses” for vaccine effectiveness are performed. Not in the slightest.

 

[Sturm]

I cant speak globally but BC had fewer deaths first year, because of the low number of traffic and workplace fatalities.

 

[WhiteMousse]

My brother got it and almost died. He's unhealthy as fuck though. This is how I see it---

Fatties and people who treat their own body like shit had good reason to be afraid. But that is no reason to fuck up the lives of people who had absolutely nothing to be afraid of. You fat fucks tanked our economy because you can't go five minutes without a goddamn Big Mac. After all is said and done, it's a literal cold. It's a fucking cold.

If it really were such a huge deal would it have been dropped the moment the Ukraine bullshit started?

 

[ineverpost]

It's extremely easy to say NBD after it becomes nbd.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Excess deaths throughout Scandinavia, where stringency index was low, was at normal levels. Nobody would have blinked at their 2 or 3-year-average all-cause mortality had it not been for endless propaganda and panic porn. So, you will want to look for a non-C19 explanation for very high excess death in the US.

Stress (driven by unemployment, for example) is a huge killer. The idea that lockdowns/measure/panic kill was raised in April 2020, but that dialogue has been shut down and censored.

You people are absolutely absurd.

 

[Rob Battisti]

It was bad enough that my father came out of retirement in his eighties to assist in the ICU because they were so desperate for staff.

The people saying this was exaggerated are probably the same people who think climate change is a hoax.

I don’t think that climate change is not happening. I also happen to believe that the measures taken to “curb” Covid were overboard and were for the benefit of the elite and detriment of the people.

 

[genecop]

Exaggerated? No.

The Lancet: Global death toll of COVID-19 pandemic may be more than three times higher than official records, estimates of excess deaths indicate

 

[Corona]

The initial surge wasn’t exaggerated. But the duration and restrictions were 100% exaggerated and destroyed millions of peoples livelihoods.