Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Pyro as Bill]

Ka-pi96 said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Like I said, people dying while being positive doesn't mean Covid killed them.

Given the demographic breakdown of CV deaths, do you think this 5yr old died of Covid of the underlying health condition?

As of 16th April, 91% of UK covid deaths had other health conditions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52308783

So are you going to argue that covid has barely killed anybody because of that? I can assure you that deaths over the past few months would have been significantly lower without covid, so covid is undoubtedly causing those deaths, regardless of other health conditions. The vast majority of those people wouldn't normally have died.

Yep that's totally what I'm going to argue and I'm 100% definitely not arguing that kids with leukemia, suicide victims and people who died in a car crash who tested positive for covid didn't die of covid.

I'm also definitely not saying that people claiming to "think of the children" are cowards hiding behind terminally ill kids.