Not enough people are dying of COVID

 

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

 It appears the death rate in the United State in 2020 is grossly behind previous years and we might well fall short on account of COVID 19.

The normal number of deaths in the US annually is about 2.9 million.
But as of Oct. 1, 2020 slightly more than 2 million had died in the US.
While we hear about the 208,000 who have died of COVID only about 10,000 died of the disease itself. The rest died from complications due to other factors, most of whom would have died anyway with or without COVID.

The average death rate to COVID is 75; the average rate of death for non-COVID is 77.
The reduction in deaths may in fact be attributed to COVID lockdowns and the inability of people to get themselves killed in old fashioned ways such as drinking and driving or other kinds of reckless driving.
While violent crime is on the rise in some cities, fear of COVID may well have kept other people hiding in their basements missing out on other opportunities to kill each other.
Fewer pedestrians also means fewer deaths to jaywalking and other such accidents.
Fewer elective surgeries means less death under the scalpel.
Democrats tell us we might see another 200,000 deaths due to COVID by years end. But this might not be enough to reach the national average especially if Democratic governors keep shutting down their states each time the number of positives rises.
Since the recovery rate for those who even show symptoms is over 99 percent, we clearly won’t make up the death differential that way.
Obviously if we expect to get back to the national average for annual deaths we need to let people go back to killing themselves.