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nitpicker

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1. I honestly don't believe they adjusted enough to account for indirect deaths

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Thu May 6, 2021, 01:20 PM

May 2021

A number of which may have been due to people losing their health insurance as well as their jobs and thus not getting the medicine/ care that they needed. Plus the general stresses helping to push blood pressure up and leading to strokes/etc. And FOGI (fear of going in) causing those who could afford it to delay screenings/tests/etc.

In the US, I could agree with an estimate of 750K dead so far, but I don't think all the excess deaths are directly due to COVID-19.

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I honestly don't believe they adjusted enough to account for indirect deaths nitpicker May 2021 #1

been saying this til i'm hoarse. mopinko May 2021 #2

I'm not surprised. rump didn't want to let cruise ships dock back into this Country because he SWBTATTReg May 2021 #3