sethschroeder
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- Feb 24, 2013
When you consider that Texas, in 2017 & 2018, saw over 10K deaths from the flu, you really have to ask why the draconian measures for 3K deaths from Covid. ALL life is valuable and I am not brushing that off, but the facts are the more people in a state of 29 million die in car accidents each year and many more from the flu than this virus. And when TPTB openly admit that all deaths are being labeled as Covid, even when they are not, we are not even sure that those 3K are truly related to the virus. I am confident that many, many more have antibodies and immunity than we think.
You understand this is more impactful right? Texas was not really impacted for the first 4-5 months of the years. It was not until more recently that cases started to go up and you are seeing an uptick to deaths unfortunately. The flu claim is like 4+ months old at this point and was politically motivated and has sense subsided nationally because the people spouting it look foolish.
What is crazy is how you don't connect your previous post with this one. You talk about 12 months of car related deaths to a 6 month span (which is going up not down) in COVID19 related deaths (sorry that either you are slightly clueless about how that is a completely incorrect comparison to make or you have some underlying bad motivation for spreading mis-information). This is not to blame you but to outline the reason for those media reports is to try and get through to all the people you misinform (likely on a daily basis).
Texas has had a larger surge of cases since mid-june which lines up with the early-july increase in deaths. Hopefully it goes down but people need to take it seriously and do their part. What is not helpful is when people act like nothing is happening. Also no this does not mean you need to lock yourself in your house the next 12 months.