I'm glad to hear you weren't hospitalized - or mistreated in a hospital - whatever the cause(s). The point of my analogy is that personal experience isn't evidence of novel factors or unique conditions.
A key problem in this mess is that there is no sign of a risk-additive pathogen contributing to mortality prior to a government commencing testing in hospitals.
Even ED visits for ILI (a measure subject to social-psycho influences) were within statistically-expected ranges.
A reason I've focused on New York City is because it's the place that claims being struck by the most deadly version of this allegedly novel and fast-spreading coronavirus. Yet there's no sign of this pathogen in any data of any kind.
Even if we say there was something "new" going around in 2019 - spring 2019 or sooner, if we want to go with various kinds of sample analyses - we're left with something that wasn't increasing the risk of hospitalization or death in any age group (or in all-cause mortality).
Could all-cause death curves be manipulated? In my opinion, yes -- which is one of many reasons that governments around the world need to be forced to make every deaths certificate public.
It's easy to lie about death when you don't have to prove it.
I'm glad to hear you weren't hospitalized - or mistreated in a hospital - whatever the cause(s). The point of my analogy is that personal experience isn't evidence of novel factors or unique conditions.
A key problem in this mess is that there is no sign of a risk-additive pathogen contributing to mortality prior to a government commencing testing in hospitals.
Even ED visits for ILI (a measure subject to social-psycho influences) were within statistically-expected ranges.
A reason I've focused on New York City is because it's the place that claims being struck by the most deadly version of this allegedly novel and fast-spreading coronavirus. Yet there's no sign of this pathogen in any data of any kind.
Even if we say there was something "new" going around in 2019 - spring 2019 or sooner, if we want to go with various kinds of sample analyses - we're left with something that wasn't increasing the risk of hospitalization or death in any age group (or in all-cause mortality).
Could all-cause death curves be manipulated? In my opinion, yes -- which is one of many reasons that governments around the world need to be forced to make every deaths certificate public.
It's easy to lie about death when you don't have to prove it.