Covid versions - NOT POLITICAL (I promise)
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Sure. Like that overweight senior citizen with diabetes and too high cholesterol levels are killed by a burglar, it is not the burglar's fault, because the victim wouldn't have been living very much longer anyway. I am perfectly fine with that sort of argumentation, as long as we use the same kind of argumentation in all similar cases. Or have good arguments for why those other cases are not 'similar'.
trønderen wrote:
Like that overweight senior citizen with diabetes and too high cholesterol levels are killed by a burglar, it is not the burglar's fault, because the victim wouldn't have been living very much longer anyway.
That analogy does not work. When someone is shot and killed but had covid it gets reported as death by covid. When someone is in the hospital dying of cancer but then pick up covid while there, they did not die of covid.
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Sure. Like that overweight senior citizen with diabetes and too high cholesterol levels are killed by a burglar, it is not the burglar's fault, because the victim wouldn't have been living very much longer anyway. I am perfectly fine with that sort of argumentation, as long as we use the same kind of argumentation in all similar cases. Or have good arguments for why those other cases are not 'similar'.
What ZurdoDev is referring to is the policy to count car accident victims, for example, as having died from covid if they have the virus in their system at the time dying from the car accident. Same with heart attack victims, cancer victims, etc who died from something other than the virus are counted as covid deaths if they have the virus in their system. I don't know how much that skews the numbers, but it does make one wonder...
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ZurdoDev wrote:
testing
The problem with the term "test" is that when it is used in the media there is no information provided relating to the specifics of the clinical test. As an example - if we are talking about a PCR test, the number of cycles carried out will have a big effect in detection of the virus. Are all laboratories using the same number of cycles? Also is there an agreed upon primer sequence design that all PCR tests for sars-cov-2 use and agree upon? I am going to guess that there is no one standard all testers adhere to with regards to primers or cycles - which would result in different test protocols between countries and possibly even within countries.
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GuyThiebaut wrote:
The problem with the term "test" is that when it is used in the media there is no information provided relating to the specifics of the clinical test.
In the same vein: At first nobody was getting tested...the published figures were for hospitalization cases. Nowadays if anyone's infected - whether they even feel any symptom or not - they're counted. What also skews the numbers is that not every clinic in every region tracks individuals, and then share that information with each other. If you get tested multiple times at multiple locations, and you're testing positive, you're counted as that many cases.
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I have gotten it, my whole family got it, half the people at work got it, a 70 year old at work got it and was back to work in a week. It wasn't that bad. Does the US have a different version of Covid than Europe? I know my anecdotal experiences don't prove anything on a grand scale nor am I trying to, but I do find it interesting that my experiences with Covid have been so much easier than others experiences. Or, based on a thread yesterday about Subway, maybe it's because American's eat so much junk food our immune systems are stronger? :) Although I don't ever eat fast food. Schools have been back in session for 2 months and nothing has happened. I know some denser populations had some problems when school opened back up. Everyone in the world at some point will be exposed to this thing if they haven't already. Maybe it's the people that got infected early on that are having the worst time? Maybe I had already been exposed and built a little immunity but then was exposed again and again and finally got it but it wasn't that bad? Or maybe testing just doesn't work? I find it interesting how varied the experiences with Covid are throughout the world. It's easy to understand those that have been impacted hard are fearful of it and those that haven't don't worry much about it. Very interesting.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
I have gotten it, my whole family got it, half the people at work got it, a 70 year old at work got it and was back to work in a week. It wasn't that bad.
Then consider you and your close people as lucky. I consider myself very, very lucky. I have noone close to my daily life here in Germany that has had problems for covid. But... I have two cousins (mid 50) being doctors in spain, both got it at work. She needed breath assistance and he was in bed for a week (at least without assistance). He is someone that like sports and pretty active. Now (some moths later) when he tries it, he needs 3 to 5 breaks to get home using the stairs (4th floor). Regarding the statistics (from other posts in the thread) I do think too there is a difference between "killed by covid" and "died with covid", but it is really difficult to make an accurate distinction. Example: A guy that went to my school (1 year younger than me, living the parallel street behind my child address) died due to covid. He was risk group as he had something nasty before. But he was doing pretty good and the doctors gave him several years expectation. Covid didn't directly kill him, but his body got so damned weak that the other disease took over and finished the job. He might have died anyways due to that, yes, but covid reduced his life time (I would even say drastically). So I think that cases like this belong to the statistics too.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Everyone in the world at some point will be exposed to this thing
Agree.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Maybe it's the people that got infected early on that are having the worst time?
As others said, the first wave got us unprepared. Numbers got down because we started using the masks, cleaning hands many more times a day than before, keeping distance and all that annoying (but necessary) things. And... because in Sommer (north Hemisphere) people is a lot more time outside. I hope not, but I do expect another important increase in the statistics in the cold season due to being more inside in closed rooms and people getting tired of or maybe not being able to keep social distance.
ZurdoDev wrote:
Schools have been back in session for 2 months and nothing has happened. I know some denser populations had some problems when school opened back up.
Same here. We haven'
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What ZurdoDev is referring to is the policy to count car accident victims, for example, as having died from covid if they have the virus in their system at the time dying from the car accident. Same with heart attack victims, cancer victims, etc who died from something other than the virus are counted as covid deaths if they have the virus in their system. I don't know how much that skews the numbers, but it does make one wonder...
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Riiiight ... they're looking for co-virus in someone with a smashed head from a car accident.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
So when someone says "there isn't a problem"
I'm not sure what extra stuff you're reading into what I posted, but I never said there is no problem. However, the problem has been tiny in my experiences and I admitted that it didn't prove anything on a global scale. Not sure what you're trying to get at.
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I failed to see the point of the "tiny experiences". Like saying: I've never had a car accident so what's the big deal. My beef is with anything that makes others complacent and do less thinking.
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What ZurdoDev is referring to is the policy to count car accident victims, for example, as having died from covid if they have the virus in their system at the time dying from the car accident. Same with heart attack victims, cancer victims, etc who died from something other than the virus are counted as covid deaths if they have the virus in their system. I don't know how much that skews the numbers, but it does make one wonder...
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Are you in dead earnest suggesting that people killed in car crashes are not counted as car crash victims if they are cov19 positive? ... Some conspiracy theories are funnier than others ... How do you think this works: If four people are killed in the same accident, and one of them is cov+, do they then file it as four covid fatalities? Or are they treated separately: Three of them as car crash fatalities, one as a covid fatality? Who do you think are responsible for this classification of car fatalities as covid fatalities? The police at the site of the crash? The best doctors in the world? The funeral homes? Why are they doing it? Do they (whoever "they" are) want to make it look as if the corona handling has been handled with less competence than in other countries, to put the US in a bad light? Or are they car driving fanatics who want to suppress the fact that cars kill a hundred persons a day in the US alone? Or are they extreme left wingers who believe that (mis)classifying car crash fatalities as covid fatalities helps building a solid foundation for a revolution? This is completely crazy. Sure there are some borderline cases, e.g. if a covid patient has a stroke that he might have survived if he wasn't weakened by covid. Without covid he might have survived, without the stroke he might have survived. So how do you classify his death? - but extending this to car crash victims is just way off.
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I failed to see the point of the "tiny experiences". Like saying: I've never had a car accident so what's the big deal. My beef is with anything that makes others complacent and do less thinking.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
"tiny experiences".
Every experience is a tiny experience so I guess no one should ever share anything again? :doh:
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
I've never had a car accident so what's the big deal.
No, it's not. I specifically said I did get Covid and many others did.
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
My beef is with anything that makes others complacent and do less thinking.
Then you have a beef with both sides of this issue. :laugh:
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Are you in dead earnest suggesting that people killed in car crashes are not counted as car crash victims if they are cov19 positive? ... Some conspiracy theories are funnier than others ... How do you think this works: If four people are killed in the same accident, and one of them is cov+, do they then file it as four covid fatalities? Or are they treated separately: Three of them as car crash fatalities, one as a covid fatality? Who do you think are responsible for this classification of car fatalities as covid fatalities? The police at the site of the crash? The best doctors in the world? The funeral homes? Why are they doing it? Do they (whoever "they" are) want to make it look as if the corona handling has been handled with less competence than in other countries, to put the US in a bad light? Or are they car driving fanatics who want to suppress the fact that cars kill a hundred persons a day in the US alone? Or are they extreme left wingers who believe that (mis)classifying car crash fatalities as covid fatalities helps building a solid foundation for a revolution? This is completely crazy. Sure there are some borderline cases, e.g. if a covid patient has a stroke that he might have survived if he wasn't weakened by covid. Without covid he might have survived, without the stroke he might have survived. So how do you classify his death? - but extending this to car crash victims is just way off.
I have firsthand knowledge of this, so believe me or not -- I don't care. And no, I don't think it's trying to make the US look bad or incompetent. I think they honestly believe it's the way it should be for some reason. Maybe so no mistake is made in the other way: discounting things that should be counted as covid. But, like I said, I don't know how much this skews the numbers one way or the other. I guess you'd have to know how many died of "true" causes vs covid and I'm not sure there's a way to know. It's not a conspiracy, it's just facts.
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Dude, the mortality rate from COVID in Europe or rest of the world is higher than in what it is in the US. US has 2.9% mortality rate REST: 3.3% mortality rate
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It seems you're right, I stand corrected :omg: Netherlands 4.9%, Belgium 8.1%, UK 9%, Italy 11.2%... US only 2.8%. I wonder what causes these differences. But I'm pretty sure it's despite obesity and not because. Part of it is average age, like Italy has lots of old folk where the US population is considerably younger on average. And of course testing capacity, less testing is a higher mortality rate. On the other hand, US accounts for about 21% of global deaths while only having 4.25% of the world population...
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I have firsthand knowledge of this, so believe me or not -- I don't care. And no, I don't think it's trying to make the US look bad or incompetent. I think they honestly believe it's the way it should be for some reason. Maybe so no mistake is made in the other way: discounting things that should be counted as covid. But, like I said, I don't know how much this skews the numbers one way or the other. I guess you'd have to know how many died of "true" causes vs covid and I'm not sure there's a way to know. It's not a conspiracy, it's just facts.
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote:
But, like I said, I don't know how much this skews the numbers one way or the other. I guess you'd have to know how many died of "true" causes vs covid and I'm not sure there's a way to know.
You can't get an exact count, but by the end of they year, you can count the total number of deaths and compare to previous years. If the number of deaths jumps up by a quarter of a million from the 2019 and 2018 figures, you go looking for possible explanations. In some groups of death causes you may discover that death counts are reduced, e.g. fewer road accidents because people stay more at home, drive less, fewer people drowning because they don't go as much to the beach this year, fewer deaths from the common flu because the covid precautions has significantly reduced the spread of the common flu, etc. So you may actually end up with an increase in "unexplained" deaths of more than 250,000. Maybe you have other explanations for some of these, like a big increase from earlier years in fatal heat strokes due to global warming, or a lot more young men being shot or strangled to death. When you have subtracted these numbers, you are probably still left with a significant unexplained increase in deaths. You may ascribe them all to Covid-19, or in part to some other special condition this year. But as long as you do not present any credible alternative explanation for the increased death counts, ascribing them to Covid sounds reasonable. You may of course do the same for other figures, not ony deaths but e.g. hospitalizations, number of people who has been need ventilators etc., compared to 2019 and 2018, but some of these numbers may be less accessible and may be less exact or debatable (deaths are more absolute). You may assume that the reporting was similar in previous years, so even though the figures may be inexact or incomplete, you may look for changes in 2020, to shed light on the death counts.
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Yeah, the self-appointed "experts" are doing us all a disservice.
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No - not the self appointed ones. We're talking patronage and cronyism. For example, in the US, today, the appointed head(s) of some governmental departments are people who spent their careers fighting that(those) departments. Progress rolled back to increase profits. Public good and long term planning be damned.
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� Forogar � wrote:
you haven't watched all the news, have you?
Thank goodness no. But there was some concern over that in the beginning and all the talk was about "flatten the curve" and that was done long ago and hospitals have not since had that problem.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
there was some concern over that in the beginning and all the talk was about "flatten the curve"
Yeah, in states like NY, NJ, CT. Meanwhile, the nitwits in states like GA, FL, TX, . . . . etc. are busy generating their own spikes. Rising death rates and all . . . but you, with your "thank goodness" don't watch the news. Do you then form your opinions via wishful thinking or the other 'genius' (he told us he was one) who just knows better as he creates his own reality and the believers do what believers do. A suppose about a thousand deaths per day isn't much by your standards.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
there was some concern over that in the beginning and all the talk was about "flatten the curve"
Yeah, in states like NY, NJ, CT. Meanwhile, the nitwits in states like GA, FL, TX, . . . . etc. are busy generating their own spikes. Rising death rates and all . . . but you, with your "thank goodness" don't watch the news. Do you then form your opinions via wishful thinking or the other 'genius' (he told us he was one) who just knows better as he creates his own reality and the believers do what believers do. A suppose about a thousand deaths per day isn't much by your standards.
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You have TDS bad. I suggest you get it looked at. Although there is no known cure right now. Seriously. What the heck is your response about? None of it makes any sense. You're just ranting like a TDS leftist. Whatever, it's entertaining since you are so wrong and don't know anything about me yet pretend to know so much. :laugh: :thumbsup:
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You have TDS bad. I suggest you get it looked at. Although there is no known cure right now. Seriously. What the heck is your response about? None of it makes any sense. You're just ranting like a TDS leftist. Whatever, it's entertaining since you are so wrong and don't know anything about me yet pretend to know so much. :laugh: :thumbsup:
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ZurdoDev wrote:
TDS leftist.
Oh my - we have a label - and since you don't like reality you know it must be manufactured by "the LEFT" !
ZurdoDev wrote:
you are so wrong and don't know anything about me yet pretend to know so much.
Here, as you almost invariably are, you are wrong yet again. I know a lot about you - as do others who read your posts: for you define yourself with each of them. No one gives a flying fuck what you think yourself to be in your own imaginings. You are who you show yourself to be. So stop that worn out and preposterous whine of me (or anyone elsed) not knowing anything about you.
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ZurdoDev wrote:
TDS leftist.
Oh my - we have a label - and since you don't like reality you know it must be manufactured by "the LEFT" !
ZurdoDev wrote:
you are so wrong and don't know anything about me yet pretend to know so much.
Here, as you almost invariably are, you are wrong yet again. I know a lot about you - as do others who read your posts: for you define yourself with each of them. No one gives a flying fuck what you think yourself to be in your own imaginings. You are who you show yourself to be. So stop that worn out and preposterous whine of me (or anyone elsed) not knowing anything about you.
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You are a funny old man.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
not knowing anything about you.
Then prove it. List some things you know about me.
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You are a funny old man.
W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:
not knowing anything about you.
Then prove it. List some things you know about me.
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Total Synopsis: Right wing TROLL wallowing in cherry-picked ignorance Yeah - that about sums it up.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Total Synopsis: Right wing TROLL wallowing in cherry-picked ignorance Yeah - that about sums it up.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I accept your surrender. You're all talk bud. Wrong every time you respond to me. Not even in the ballpark. But the fact that you go crazy each time I disagree with you proves my original point. Again and again. Have a good day.
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It seems you're right, I stand corrected :omg: Netherlands 4.9%, Belgium 8.1%, UK 9%, Italy 11.2%... US only 2.8%. I wonder what causes these differences. But I'm pretty sure it's despite obesity and not because. Part of it is average age, like Italy has lots of old folk where the US population is considerably younger on average. And of course testing capacity, less testing is a higher mortality rate. On the other hand, US accounts for about 21% of global deaths while only having 4.25% of the world population...
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Find the figures that suits you best, and promote those as The One To Focus On. Deaths per million population - Worldometers as of this morning: USA: 647 Netherlands: 376 Belgium: 867 UK: 623 Italy: 595 Cases per million population: USA: 23,037 Netherlands: 7,926 Belgium: 11,224 UK: 7,399 Italy: 5,383 So USA has far more cases, which is bad in isolation. But it gives you a big number to divide the death count by, giving a more favorable impression of the mortality rate. Deaths divided by cases (as of Worldometers figures today): USA: 2.8% Netherlands: 4.7% Belgium: 7.7% UK: 8.4% Italy: 11% We can stop there. But hold on a second... This assumes that all covid cases are detected in the countries we look at - or at least that the percentage of cases detected is reasonable similar. You detect cases by testing. Tests per million population: USA: 336,253 Netherlands: 142,875 Belgium: 293,269 UK: 368,471 Italy: 194,977 So USA has tested 135% more than the Netherlands, 15% more than Belgium, actually 9% less than UK, and 72% more than Italy. It was suggested to reduce the amount of testing, to keep the case sount down - if that logic holds water, we might assume that there are in fact lots of unreported cases, especally in the Netherlands and Italy. The divisor in the "Deaths / cases" calculation may in fact be significantly higher, bringing the mortailty rate significantly down, for these countries. Whether or not this "correction" should be applied also depends on what qualifies you for being tested, which is not necessarily the same in all countries. Some places, anyone who wants to, whether having symptoms or not, are tested. In other countries (especially in the early stages of the spreading of the virus), testing was - due to limited capacity - restricted to those in the "high risk groups" and those showing symptoms. Or, if you in one area (city, state) have a large outbreak, you may start widespread testing there, leaving other areas less tested. All such differences strongly affect how many covid cases are discovered, and how many go unregistred. So let us see how effective the testing is, looking at number of cases detected per test: USA: 0.068 Netherlands: 0.018 Belgium: 0.026 UK: 0.050 Italy: 0.036 On possible observation from this is that USA is a lot better at "finding" covid cases, bringing up the case count (i.e. the divisor in the mortality calculation). It could be that there are just as many cases in other countries,
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Find the figures that suits you best, and promote those as The One To Focus On. Deaths per million population - Worldometers as of this morning: USA: 647 Netherlands: 376 Belgium: 867 UK: 623 Italy: 595 Cases per million population: USA: 23,037 Netherlands: 7,926 Belgium: 11,224 UK: 7,399 Italy: 5,383 So USA has far more cases, which is bad in isolation. But it gives you a big number to divide the death count by, giving a more favorable impression of the mortality rate. Deaths divided by cases (as of Worldometers figures today): USA: 2.8% Netherlands: 4.7% Belgium: 7.7% UK: 8.4% Italy: 11% We can stop there. But hold on a second... This assumes that all covid cases are detected in the countries we look at - or at least that the percentage of cases detected is reasonable similar. You detect cases by testing. Tests per million population: USA: 336,253 Netherlands: 142,875 Belgium: 293,269 UK: 368,471 Italy: 194,977 So USA has tested 135% more than the Netherlands, 15% more than Belgium, actually 9% less than UK, and 72% more than Italy. It was suggested to reduce the amount of testing, to keep the case sount down - if that logic holds water, we might assume that there are in fact lots of unreported cases, especally in the Netherlands and Italy. The divisor in the "Deaths / cases" calculation may in fact be significantly higher, bringing the mortailty rate significantly down, for these countries. Whether or not this "correction" should be applied also depends on what qualifies you for being tested, which is not necessarily the same in all countries. Some places, anyone who wants to, whether having symptoms or not, are tested. In other countries (especially in the early stages of the spreading of the virus), testing was - due to limited capacity - restricted to those in the "high risk groups" and those showing symptoms. Or, if you in one area (city, state) have a large outbreak, you may start widespread testing there, leaving other areas less tested. All such differences strongly affect how many covid cases are discovered, and how many go unregistred. So let us see how effective the testing is, looking at number of cases detected per test: USA: 0.068 Netherlands: 0.018 Belgium: 0.026 UK: 0.050 Italy: 0.036 On possible observation from this is that USA is a lot better at "finding" covid cases, bringing up the case count (i.e. the divisor in the mortality calculation). It could be that there are just as many cases in other countries,
And if all else fails I'll just say I don't trust our governments. My government boosts the numbers to make us scared and keep us in check. Your government reports less numbers to look better. Now try and fact check that! :laugh: I'm joking, but there are plenty of people who do exactly this and they're not :sigh:
trønderen wrote:
There are so many numbers for us to juggle, and so large variations in national conditions (and they have changed a lot since March, at different rate in different countries) that you will always be able to find figures to support your case.
Completely agree there!
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