Originally Posted by battue
Originally Posted by Just a Hunter
Originally Posted by shootinurse
Originally Posted by TimZ
If I made it to 87, I would hope there would be very little that would terrify me at that point. Would have outlived Dad by 10 years and his Dad by 30 years, so would consider myself way ahead of the game.....

This. After working in health care most of my life, this whole thing is way overblown. Everyone gets sick. Everyone dies. The average age of death in Italy was 81. They stopped treating people 80 and over, then dropped it back to 65. And many deaths are attributed to the virus. Not heart attacks, COPD, stroke, renal or liver failure, etc.


On FOX news about 45 minute ago it was reported that over 4000 of the deaths attributed to C-19 were not tested for it. So basically they have a bit over 6000 deaths attributed to C-19 where the person had it. From watching a doc on youtube he says the way you die from C-19 is when you get pneumonia. I wonder how many of those people who had C-19 actually died of something else, but since they were being treated for C-19 that is automatically put as the cause of death. They are listing people who die from heart attacks as dying from C-19 if they have it. Yet in some areas heart attack deaths are way down. Maybe it is because people are suiting on their easy chairs all day, I don't know. I wonder how many heart attacks there will be after people get up and moving again.


Don’t have the inclination to read all the BS about old people dying. It has been going on since the beginning of time and highly unlikely that will change...however, the reason the hospitals are listing Covid as the cause, is the fact they most likely will get more government money from Covid than they would from the insurance company if CHF, diabetes, high BP or Kidney issues were listed as the primary cause of death....


And hospitals are furloughing people because there aren't many people coming into the hospital. Our own small hospital is losing huge amounts of money because no one is coming in. Everyone was told to stay home and not go to their Dr. so all the PPE can be used for the C-19 patients that didn't happen. I'm due for my annual this month. Not going to happen though. So I can't go to see my doc and because of that something is missed that won't be found until next year. Say cancer. And by that time it is too late to do anything or it is going to take a lot more effort to get me well. What will be said than?

The fact is we need to get back to normal. Not every old person will die from this. (Heck there was a 104 year old who beat it) If you have a problem with your health you should be the one staying home if you feel that way. Everyone else needs to get back to work.