Peter Hitchen's blog is interesting:

hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2021/02/...s-are-recorded-.html

Why do we seem so desperate to see Covid referenced in as many deaths as possible? Why if this is a truly deadly plague do we have to go looking for it so hard...

The other side of this is that when young apparently healthy people die OF covid (as they occasionally do) the grieving family is hounded and harassed online by trolls yelling about cover-ups and underlying conditions.

Honey wrote:
The other side of this is that when young apparently healthy people die OF covid (as they occasionally do) the grieving family is hounded and harassed online by trolls yelling about cover-ups and underlying conditions.

Yes very true. This is the trouble with the media and Gov creating such a hyped febrile situation; some people will always gravitate to extremes, including at some stage I predict violence - even murder. Terrified people don't act rationally.

Wyot wrote:
Honey wrote:
The other side of this is that when young apparently healthy people die OF covid (as they occasionally do) the grieving family is hounded and harassed online by trolls yelling about cover-ups and underlying conditions.

Yes very true. This is the trouble with the media and Gov creating such a hyped febrile situation; some people will always gravitate to extremes, including at some stage I predict violence - even murder. Terrified people don't act rationally.


I don't know what is so difficult about making two lists - One where covid was the cause of death, and another where it contributed.

Honey wrote:
[quote]Wyot wrote:
[quote]Honey wrote:


I don't know what is so difficult about making two lists - One where covid was the cause of death, and another where it contributed.

I'm not sure Covid ever is the cause. It exacerbates conditions and appears, in a tiny number of cases, to over stimulate the immune system causing damage to vital organs. It clearly can't be distinguished on it's own merits as a pathogen. Which is a curious state of affairs for an apparantly lethal virus.

I suggest, when the dust settles, that the sensible thing would be to look at why so many people have these conditions and what can be done about it? Apart from old age; not a lot we can do about that!