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Please stop. Having underlying health conditions that make you less likely to survive COVID-19 does not mean that you were not killed by COVID-19.

We wouldn’t say that someone with peanut allergies was killed by the allergy — and not the peanut — so please just stop with this propaganda.



HIV / AIDS doesn't kill anyone.

Its the NEXT disease that kills you: all HIV does is kill off your white-blood cells and prevent your body from fighting off the next disease.

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Colloquially: when someone dies of a typical flu / cold when they were infected by AIDS, we call that "dying because of AIDS", even though AIDS had very little to do with the ultimate death of that person.


If a patient would have likely survived that flu “but for” AIDS, it seems to me that AIDS had quite a bit to do with that untimely death.


"Officials in Orange County, Florida have confirmed that a motor accident death was initially included into the coronavirus death toll. It was later struck off the list, but not until authorities were challenged by the media.

Florida Department of Health in Orange County announced on Saturday that it no longer counts the death of a man aged in his 20s in a motorcycle accident as a coronavirus fatality.

The case “was reviewed and he was taken off the list for Covid fatalities,” Kent Donahue, spokesman for Orange County Health Officer Dr Raul Pino, told Fox35, which initially broke the story after perusing lists of official Covid-19 victims provided by the state."

Who knows how many more cases there are just like this. I don't trust the government's numbers at this point.


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When people talk about "pre-existing conditions" they mean things like high blood pressure or type 1 diabetes -- the kind of thing that can be well maintained and has almost no impact on the person.


Heart disease has no impact on the person? About 3,000 people die every day in the US because of this condition.


But pre-existing conditions isn't only heart disease. It includes a long list, many of which can be well maintained and have no impact on the person's day to day life.

https://twitter.com/profhelenward/status/1343883846568325122...




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