<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I think someone said that if a person died and had the virus, even though he did not die from it, they counted it as a virus death.  Something about getting paid for virus deaths. I think I read that the first teen death in California occurred.  Huh?   bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:39 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-9152583617393729617WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have been away for a coupla wk camping, mostly away from internet.  The first things I checked upon my return to bandwidth is the covid rate in my county:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard-cases.aspx</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can someone help me understand why the chart says Cumulative COVID-19 Deaths, but that comment down that the bottom seems contradictory:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="861" height="987" style="width: 8.9687in; height: 10.2812in;" id="gmail-m_-9152583617393729617Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:173ab98eba76917eb1"><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white">“Deaths provided in this dashboard do not necessarily mean that the individuals died from COVID-19.”<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white">OK, um… sure.  So… why are they in the database under “Covid-19 deaths”?<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white">Over time, the number of people coming to the county coroner with Covid antibodies accumulates.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">If I count the new case rate from about 2 wks ago and compare to the current death rate, I too am getting about half a percent:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://reason.com/2020/07/23/there-is-more-than-one-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate/?utm_medium=email" target="_blank">https://reason.com/2020/07/23/there-is-more-than-one-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate/?utm_medium=email</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background:white"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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