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9. Add around another third to that for non-Covid excess deaths

Reply to Delphinus (Reply #7)

Sat Nov 6, 2021, 07:15 PM

Nov 2021

So another quarter million or so from people dying from something other than Covid, but who died indirectly from it

e.g., people who couldn't get an proper care for a heart attack because all the icu beds were full, or whose cancer was detected too late because they put off screening due to lockdowns.

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This should be required reading for all anti vax nut jobs [View all] Diamond_Dog Nov 2021 OP

And this Beachnutt Nov 2021 #1

Anti vax nutters will just say Diamond_Dog Nov 2021 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author Beachnutt Nov 2021 #5

Actually the real nut cases are saying Mr.Bill Nov 2021 #12

The also are starting to accuse us (nurses and doctors) of killing them. Maru Kitteh Nov 2021 #15

Save me, secular heathens. keithbvadu2 Nov 2021 #18

Sad but true! Diamond_Dog Nov 2021 #21

Sadly accurate MustLoveBeagles Nov 2021 #22

Saddening diamond dog Duncanpup Nov 2021 #3

I'm at the point Duncanpup Diamond_Dog Nov 2021 #4

I'd like to say this again: "When the polio vaccine came out, there were NO.." anti vax nut jobs" Stuart G Nov 2021 #6

Well beyond 500,000 now ... Delphinus Nov 2021 #7

Thank You for current numbers....VERY SAD!!! Stuart G Nov 2021 #8

Add around another third to that for non-Covid excess deaths unblock Nov 2021 #9

Thank you Delphinus Nov 2021 #10

Yep! ProfessorGAC Nov 2021 #23

Couple Rebl2 Nov 2021 #14

They need to learn to read first relayerbob Nov 2021 #11

And it's no surprise that the majority of cases are now in poorly educated areas groundloop Nov 2021 #13

Oh, that's certainly true relayerbob Nov 2021 #26

I think of the ones dying like a drunk driver who slams his truck into a tree and dies.. his fault, LiberalArkie Nov 2021 #16

It's when the drunk driver kills other people that it is a real shame. erronis Nov 2021 #19

I just really, really wish hospitals would refuse to accept unvaccinated patients. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2021 #17

I think the Libertarian wing of the GOP Equomba Nov 2021 #24

This why they should be sent to quarantine facilities. roamer65 Nov 2021 #20

I just realized Sarah Palin was right!!!!! MyOwnPeace Nov 2021 #25

I have no empathy either, refer to it as "the great repuke die-off" traitorsgalore Nov 2021 #27