And for people here who have loved ones over 70 but under 90, I decided to do this chart to give you some piece of mind. Because even though the rates are elevated for people 70-89, it's the 90+ year olds who are bumping up the death rates a lot for the 70+ and 80+ categories
https://i.imgur.com/5V71VRI.png
80-89 year olds are 3.55% of the population and make up 36.46% of the deaths. 10.26x the average.
70-79 year olds are 7.7% of the population and make up 17.87%of the deaths. 2.32x.
90+ year olds are 36.48x!
And this is very good news if you are under 65/70,
0-69 year olds are 87.85% of the population and make up only 12.95% of the deaths. That's -85% the average rate.
Even 60-69 year olds have below-average death rates. 0.0213% of 60-69 year olds died with COVID-19. The total average is 0.0297%. As 70+ year olds are inflating the average significantly.
This is why it's retarded for the government to ban small indoor social gatherings. If you have a poker night with your buddies and no one has cold/flu-like symptoms, you're good to go. And your friends are unlikely to lie to you. Most people have enough sense not to attend social gatherings when they are sick.
But if you pack yourself into a crowded bus/streetcar/subway or go to the grocery store, you might come into contact with someone who has a cold/flu. Because you're dealing with strangers. People go to work sick all the time. I haven't let a cold stop me from going to get groceries because food is essential and I don't wanna pay the Instacart fees.
Doug Ford should allow social gatherings of up to 5 people outside your household effective immediately. 5 people that you know well and aren't symptomatic, your risk should be very low.
I've been binge watching Predators Poachers Toronto for the past week after I discovered their channel. And I swear to God it's like almost half the guys they catch are Indian international students. ? What the fuck?!
It's hilarious seeing a 6'5" West Indian black dude (they had some white Chad working for them earlier in the year) in Toronto bully Pajeet international students for trying to get minors. That's like literally almost half of the channel's content. lmao
To the tenant's credit, there appears to be a never ending supply of Indian international students with money coming here even during pandemic. And this is why rent hasn't gone down as low as you'd expect with massive unemployment here. Landlords are evicting Canadians out of their rentals to house 7 Pajeets to a room. Because one person can't compete with 7 Pajeets. But you'll never see a leftist on r/toronto bring this up. They'll get banned immediately. Leftists are literally voting for their replacement.
These people need to be culturally enriched by Tyrone and Muhammad.
They literally want us to stop reproducing. Because it's harder to take over the world when you have a whole bunch of plebs uprising. That's why they made it illegal for people in lockdown to meet people outside their household. Singles can't mingle and make babies.
Here is my best attempt at a transcript (a number of these lines are repeated. I just copied down the lines once in order)
Thinking for yourself endangers the common good
Body contact causes suffering
Facial expression is excessive
Solitary confinement is safe
Minding your health is excessive
Closeness is dangerous
Sterility is essential
Aloneness is the answer
Restrictions are freedom
The government is your family
The new normal is here
Pharmaceutical companies love you
Everyone loves the pharmaceutical companies
Vaccination is charity
Vaccinate to express your love
Obedience is love
Questioning vaccines is murder
You are not essential
Big business is essential
The government is essential
The government is life
Questioning masks is murder
Restriction is freedom
This is a protest
Reporting your friends is duty
Reporting your family is duty
Loneliness is the answer
The vast majority of Canada's population is urban. Urban people tend to be socially liberal.
I am an atheist. I just am tired of the left's woke shit and the left wanting the government to dictate every aspect of our daily lives. The left has replaced God with the Church of Woke.
Pneumonia can be developed without a respiratory virus. However many severe cases of respiratory viruses lead to the development of complications like pneumonia among others. Like cytokine storm, sepsis, ARDS, etc. Flu can even cause heart attacks and brain damage. Yet the mainstream media is acting like this shit is unique to COVID.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
134,143 deaths in the USA have both COVID-19 and pneumonia on the death certificate. So you're seeing lots of people with severe COVID develop pneumonia and die. But I also think that flu deaths have been under-reported significantly over the years. Because we never mass tested for flu the way we do for COVID. And I think it's silly that we are shutting down society over a virus that mainly kills the elderly. When we could just focus our resources on sheltering the elderly.
Notice how 278,486 deaths involve pneumonia and the majority of those don't include COVID-19 on the death certificate. That is very interesting. Lots of people die from pneumonia and we never shut society down over pneumonia before.
Pneumonia preceded by the flu was never listed as a flu death
Statscan literally codes pneumonia/flu deaths in the same category. As people who die from flu typically die from the pneumonia that develops afterwards.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1310039401
Influenza and pneumonia [J09-J18]
When you are coughing vigorously to shed virus (whether it be flu, cold, SARS-CoV-2, rhinovirus, etc), this irritates your lungs. Which creates an opportunistic pathway for bacteria to invade your lungs. Pneumonia being one of the most common bacterial infections you develop after getting a respiratory virus.
Respiratory viruses like flu, cold, rhinovirus, covid, etc. generally can not kill you on its own. There is usually a secondary infection that leads to death. Or a complication that leads to death.
If HIV weakens my immune system and I develop pneumonia and die, pneumonia is listed as the cause of death. If I have diabetes and have a heart attack, it is not assumed that diabetes caused the heart attack. So if you are to accredit "assists" for COVID, do it for all other diseases as well.
That's how it works when they code cause of death. It is impossible for HIV to kill you directly. HIV weakens the immune system and causes you to develop some other illness and die. That's how it kills you. HIV always kills you via "assist". Yet we still have deaths marked down under HIV in Canada. Diabetes to my knowledge can only really kill you via "assists" as well. And diabetes deaths do get coded. However I think the reporting of diabetes deaths is under-reported. I have two family members who had diabetes who died of heart attack. Their diabetes definitely contributed to their heart attacks.
The problem with the way they report COVID deaths is that that they report everyone who had COVID at the time of death as a COVID death. So if I get shot and had COVID in my system at the time, it's a COVID death. Which is silly. But developing pneumonia after a viral infection is common knowledge. Even before we had masks, people were dying of pneumonia after having the flu/cold.
Statscan denies leading cause of death in a way that is completely different from the way that COVID deaths are reported btw. But underlying cause of death takes into account "assists". If you have HIV and you develop pneumonia as a result, HIV is the underlying cause of death. If you have flu and you develop pneumonia as a result, flu is the underlying cause of death. If you have diabetes and you get a heart attack as a result, diabetes is the underlying cause of death.
The cause of death tabulated is the underlying cause of death. This is defined as (a) the disease or injury which initiated the train of events leading directly to death, or (b) the circumstances of the accident or violence which produced the fatal injury. The underlying cause is selected from the conditions listed on the medical certificate of cause of death.
It's common to develop pneumonia after contracting a severe case of COVID-19, flu or cold. So if someone dies from pneumonia, that doesn't mean that COVID-19, flu or cold weren't contributing factors.
Also someone can die from an influenza and COVID-19 co-infection as well. That doesn't mean COVID-19 isn't a contributing factor. But does having two different viruses make it more likely you're gonna die? Absolutely.
A doctor has to make a judgment call as to whether COVID-19 contributed to a death instead of doing the died with COVID-19 thing.
If you develop pneumonia after having COVID-19 and you die from the pneumonia, that's a legitimate COVID-19 death (and also a pneumonia death. There can be multiple causes of death).
Most people who die from respiratory viruses, die from an opportunistic secondary infection, not the actual virus itself. The most common one being pneumonia. Think of it like a virus getting an assist on a goal. The pneumonia develops because the virus irritated your lungs. Hockey players get credits on assists. Why wouldn't you credit COVID-19, flu or cold with an assist when pneumonia scores a one-timer?
If you had COVID-19 and you die from a motorcycle accident, fentanyl overdose or being choked out, that's not a COVID-19 death because there's no assist there.
As a former NDP voter, the modern NDP is an embarrassment. The woke shit lost me. But the lockdown hysteria is truly disgusting.
NDP claims to represent the working class. But for Ontarians of working age (20-59), only 187 died with COVID out of 8,047,391 people. That's only 0.0023% of Ontarians 20-59.
You want to know what the death rate is for Ontarians under 20? 1 out of 3,131,022. 0.00003%. "Shut the schools! Oh will somebody think of the children?!"
Even for workers on the precipice of retirement and recent retirees (60-69), it's still only 0.0209%. 369 out of 1,765,205 people.
Notice how there's more dead at 60-69 than all of 0-59 combined?
And there's more dead at 70-79 than all of 0-69 combined too.
And more dead at 80-89 than all of 0-79 combined.
And nearly 33% of the deaths are 90+. Under 0.9% of the population accounts for nearly a third of the deaths.
Notice a pattern? The fatality rate increases exponentially with age.
Home schooling is superior to the public education system. Unfortunately most families can't afford to raise a family on one income these days so they don't have the means to home school their kids. Though if granma/granpa are still mentally sharp, they could home school the kids. Assuming they are retired like most old people.
I know the kid lives with their grandparents but Jesus Christ, way to ruin your child's life
I know a girl in Brampton who is a super spreader. She had a bad flu back in March and is now immune though.
How did I know this was gonna be Tik Tok nurses before I clicked?
The government is keeping lovers away from each other over a fucking flu. It's ridiculous. It's like they don't want young people to fuck and make babies.
Think about how many babies are killed in abortions compared to the number of people dying from this glorified flu
They shut down ski resorts where social distancing is totally possible. Meanwhile my local supermarket was a zoo earlier today. I found it really difficult to obey the arrows and a lot of the other customers weren't obeying them anyways so I gave up trying to obey them myself. Literally impossible to socially distance two days before Christmas in a supermarket. And this was a Loblaws. Wal-Mart and Costco are even worse. I made sure to avoid those.
The CRA is doxxing motherfuckas. lmao. Holy fuck.
My dad immigrated here in the 60s when Portugal still had the Estado Novo regime. The Salazar regime folded in 1974.
My dad is the way he is because he never learned about the American revolution, French revolution, The Enlightenment, liberal democracy, etc. in 1950s Portugal when he was in school. In his mind, he saw America and Canada as freedom and opportunity. That's it. He never learned the core of what liberty is. He just sees that Canada is more free than 1960s Portugal and more free than modern China and for that he thinks that we should feel grateful for that.
Thing is if we don't defend our liberty, we could one day become China. Hell we could literally be annexed by China. This is a concept that is lost on even people who were born, raised and educated here.
But since I was born and raised in Canada and learned about the American revolution, French revolution, the Enlightenment, liberal democracy, libertarianism, etc. live free or die is a concept I understand. This is why education is important. But quality education. Modern public education is just indoctrination camps. The vast majority of what I learned about liberal democracy was from what I read online.
My dad is not tech savvy. He doesn't know how to use the internet. He gets his news from CP24 and CNN. He is a product of his upbringing.
The concept of prioritizing liberty over safety is alien to most Canadians. To my dad, the concept is completely alien to him. When I try to explain liberty over safety to him, he doesn't understand the concept of it. He was born in a fascist country (Portugal under Estado Novo). So for him he feels that I'm spoiled for calling Canada authoritarian. When he says that I would have enjoyed far less freedom under Salazar's Portugal.
I'll tell you one thing though: Salazar wouldn't have shut Portugal down over a fucking flu.
Even when someone is getting a cheque from the government, I don't understand how they can tolerate 9+ months of house arrest. I want my life back. And I am one of the biggest introverts that I know. But apparently I'm not the most introverted person anymore in a COVID world. As an introvert, I feel drained by too much social interaction. But too little in-person social interaction is giving me cabin fever. I guess staying home is novel to extroverts and so it's still fresh to them.
2,777,572 Americans died from Feb 1st to Dec 12th according to the CDC. 276,061 died with COVID according to the CDC. That's 9.9% of all deaths. The Fed inflated the US monetary supply by like 35% over a virus that is linked to only 10% of the deaths? lmao.
There are over 200 countries in the world. And the country on the top of the COVID leaderboard per capita wise is Belgium with 0.1621% of their population dying with COVID. This is not an apocalyptic virus. It's a bad flu. If you are old and immuno-compromised and content with not having a life, stay home. If you are a pussy and content with not having a life, stay home. The rest of us should be allowed to live our lives. I just came back from the grocery store and I have more face mask acne. I have an old acne scar that has been there for months near my chin. And these stupid face masks do nothing. But I can be kicked out of the grocery store and fined $880 if I don't wear one. It's fucked.
If she wants to volunteer to take an experimental mRNA vaccine for a virus with an over 99% survival rate (in her age group it's more like 99.99-99.999%, that's on her.
Young people are basically fucking Final Fantasy characters with 9,999 HP when it comes to fighting this virus. There's so many fucking 9s. Except Sephiroth's Final Form has far better odds of killing a 9,999 HP Cloud than this virus.