Pull the fucking plug
>3) Diabetes and other preexisting conditions which probably helped make the COVID fatal. I'd keep those on the list because it was the COVID that killed, not the preexisting conditions.
Depends on age, infirmity, and complications. Some proportion of those dying would likely have died from diabetes and its complications. You can’t generalize.
>4) Respiratory arrest/failure. Those are symptoms of COVID, I'd call those COVID deaths and keep them on the list.
Respiratory conditions may also be present absent covid - emphysema, COPD, or severe asthma as examples. These diseases can result in death without other comorbidities.
An unaddressed matter is: how many of the total deaths cited covid where there was no covid? How many influenza and pneumonia deaths are reported incorrectly as covid?
We know that financial incentives served to jack up the counts, and whistleblowers have come forward to expose pressure being applied within hospitals and health districts for doctors and coroners to play along.
We know the system of reporting became bastardized in many places - we just don’t know the degree to which the reported numbers are a consequence of intention.
People die every day. Typically only the families and the undertakers think much about mortality. Typically death is not a matter of politics.