Quote Originally Posted by reexre View Post
Agreed.
Here in Italy we have known for a long time how they are counted.
Anyone who has a hospitalisation, for whatever reason, if they die after a positive swab is counted as a Covid death. Whatever the cause of death.
Nobody looks at medical records to find out the cause of death. If he tested positive for Covid, then he is counted as a Covid death. Only the swab determines the cause of death.
Death is a funny thing. COVID is a virus. It can't kill you directly. All it is doing is causing your body to create more versions of the virus. I suppose it might be possible, if you had NO immune system, for it to so thoroughly hijack so many of your cells that they stop producing anything other than virus, in which case it might kill you. Otherwise, COVID is never what kills you when you die of COVID. That's not because somebody is misleading you, it's just because it has no means to kill you. It isn't toxic, nor does it produce toxins, the way some bacteria do. It's not causing your cells to create mini-guns with which to shoot you.

So, by your rule, COVID has killed nobody, EVER. The roughly 400,000 deaths in the US above the expected number....were just a coincidence.