Covid-19 Deaths by State

The data in this section comes from the CDC so it’s a little different from what the WA State DOH reported in part 1. The table shows the 6 states which intentionally sent C19-positive elderly patients to nursing homes where they could spread it to the only vulnerable demographic (some might call that murder), the 7 states which didn’t lock down all their businesses, and another 6 states of different sizes to provide context. The table is sorted by descending deaths per million, and shows us a few things:

1) The states that didn’t lock down had some of the lowest deaths per million in the nation; it’s clear that locking down wasn’t the key to beating the virus.

2) Deaths per million is not correlated with total population.

3) The wildly disparate deaths per million figures are probably due to states skewing the numbers (more on that in part 4) and providing different quality of care. NY was all about the ventilators and they killed 88% of the people they put on them.

Building on #3, it looks like the way a state or nation takes care of its elderly is the most important factor in keeping its death counts low. According to the WHO wealthy countries are reporting up to 82% of C19 deaths in nursing homes.

Cuomo ordered Covid patients into nursing homes while his hospitals had empty beds. It’s no wonder NY has a staggering 1,600 deaths per million, one of the highest rates in the entire world. The DOJ is also taking an interest in him and his ilk.

As of Aug 22, an analysis of “Covid” deaths by the CDC found:

“For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

So 94% of “Covid” deaths have an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of death. Meaning a grand total of 8,273 people have died of the virus, the whole virus, and nothing but the virus.

Why didn’t we target our protective measures to the demographics that actually need them, instead of taking the unprecedented steps of destroying small businesses, forcing our schools to close, and our children to live in fear of other humans? Why do we have blanket impositions across the whole population instead of focusing on protecting the tiny minority who are most vulnerable?

Comparing C19 to Other Causes of Death

The context for the (at time of writing) 137,922 nation-wide C19 deaths is similar to WA state in part 1. In 2017:

Number of deaths for leading causes of death:

Heart disease: 647,457
Cancer: 599,108
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404
Diabetes: 83,564
Influenza and Pneumonia: 55,672
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis: 50,633
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173

(Source)

Let’s quickly simulate a scenario where NY, NJ, and Mass didn’t turn their nursing homes into death camps. If we assign those 3 states a reasonable deaths per million (let’s say 500, which is still high) and adjust the deaths accordingly, that would subtract roughly 30k deaths from the total, bringing us down to 107,922 nation-wide. Which would put covid as the 7th leading cause of death, exactly the same as it is in WA. Making Covid 1/6 as deadly as heart disease nationwide. And again, nobody is ramming sweeping changes down our throat to combat the threat of the 6 bigger causes of death, which have each been killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year for decades.

What’s missing from the list above is that the 3rd leading cause of death in the US, with a whopping quarter million deaths annually, is (according to a Johns Hopkins study) medical mistakes. That’s right, our medical system has killed 2.5 million of us in the last decade via mistakes alone. Covid-19 has killed 138k so far, remember. Why doesn’t that useless bag of air Inslee pick up his pitchfork and start defending us from the medical system that kills way more of us than the virus?

Child Mortality

In 2020, children aged 5-14 are 5 times as likely to die of flu or pneumonia in this country as they are from Covid-19. It is ludicrous to claim that we need to shut down schools to protect children from the virus.

Part 3 – The Global Statistics

Sources for child mortality data: