Mark Hayward, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who advises the Centers For Disease Control on its mortality statistics, told Britain’s Independent newspaper the “overall burden of mortality” from COVID-19 in the U.S. could be closer to double the current 75,000 deaths.
That claim is only true if you believe the virus itself is responsible for the lockdowns and their broad bans on non-COVID health care. But it is more accurately viewed as a consequence of policies that can and should be reversed.
Two weeks ago, the New York Times wrote: “ERs have about half the normal number of patients, and heart and stroke units are nearly empty . . . Some medical experts fear more people are dying from untreated emergencies than from the coronavirus.”
Dr. Santiago Garcia of the Minneapolis Heart Institute says “people are having a hard time reaching out to the physicians.” He notes that one of his colleagues reported a patient losing their eyesight after failing to get to their macular degeneration test, which checks the health of the retina.
Allina Health, which operates 13 hospitals and more than 90 clinics through Minnesota and western Wisconsin, postponed 4,000 surgeries last month, some of them for cancer patients.
The biggest proponent of the “excess mortality is the real COVID-19 count” notion globally is the Financial Times. But Sweden, with comparatively laxer lockdown policies in place, has fared better in terms of excess deaths than other European countries with far stricter lockdowns, well below their calculated 49 percent average increase, at 18 percent.
Deaths caused by people blocked from needed health care should not be labeled COVID-19 deaths. They are more appropriately tagged “lockdown deaths.”
Public fears hospital due to Wuhan virus thus miss elective services thus Hospitals GO broke etc.
Its Bad policy overall & U Lose or your kin does.
Reopen hospitals for elective services
Or lose $$$$$.
Damn hysteria, hype, media lies ruined this for ALL.
Need a Uniform plan or policy among MDs, public, HC firms, hospitals on issues
Or relive this again for 2nd wave??
More targeted lockdowns??
USC and California Dept of Health did a study and found the mortality rate from Coronavirus to be between about 0.26% and 0.13%. “0.13% is about the same as a bad flu season the source said”. This is NOT a Pandemic! It’s a False Flag on a worldwide scale because Bill Gates wants depopulation. He stands to make about $36 Billion Pounds Sterling from the Vaccines one of his compnies is rolling out over there and talked about a “Pandemic 1” and “Pandemic 2” on a video recording I saw recently.
We can not keep the Country locked down. America would become a 3rd World country. Covid-19 is NOT going away. Studies released this week from John Hopkins now say you can get infected through your eyes. Snorkel and swim googles anyone? A vaccine is 8-10 months away. And even that will, according to other flu vaccines success, will have about a 34% success rate. We are better prepared now to handle an upward spike. This is the ONLY reason for the original lockdown. It was to allow us time to get better prepared. Covid-19 is not going away. Herd immunity is the only answer now. If you want to remain locked down… do so!
Don’t comply with orders that violate YOUR constitutional rights. The constitution was written to constrain government not Us.
EXACTLY! This virus is a good opportunity for them to steal EVERYTHING from us!
Interesting to see the time stamp of these comments. As I write this, it is currently 2340 or 11:40pm, EDT on 5/12/2020. Yet 3 of the 4 above comments from purported ‘US citizens’ show time stamps of 12:34am, 2:42am and 2:56am on 5/13/2020.
From where (time zone) are these posts originating?
This explains the reason hospitals are laying off nurses, doctors, and other employees.
I live in Orange County Florida & the other day our “Bullshitarona Virus” count was about 30 deaths out of 1.5 Million people. Total Bullshit – it should be called the “Suicidal Econovirus”. The Fuckin Chinks Already Won the WAR – 1st Infect the World then in cahoots with WHO (Wuhan Health Organization) get All the Nations to Lockdown (Commit Economic Suicide). They Didn’t even Fire 1 Shot! Gotta give those Ching Chong Chicom Yellow Skin Slant Eyed Demons Credit for being So Damned Ruthless. Now what will We do? Probably Nothing.