Why did we lock down to begin with?

[jfrog]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

Here's what I mean. In the following post:

http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...1&postcount=63

You quote a source stating:



You even put the quote in bold text. In order to certify the death was due to suicidal ingestion, it would require an autopsy with a full toxicology report.

I agree so far.

But in the meantime, if the person in question had tested positive for the virus, what do you suppose is going to go on the death certificate while they don't bother doing an autopsy?

Unless there's a preliminary reason to believe it may have been poisonous ingestion or something else that requires an autopsy then why would they do an autopsy?

If someone has tested positive for the virus and died in a manner consistent with the virus while no evidence exists that it was something other than the virus then it should be marked as covid-19 with no autopsy needed. That's the consistent handling for every other type of death.

Instead what you are advocating for is a bunch of criteria that are either very difficult to impossible to implement (autopsy every death) and/or that will not be consistent between covid-19 deaths and other deaths (other deaths from diseases don't get automatic autopsy confirmation). The issue is that both of these stances will result in covid-19 deaths that will be lower in comparison to other diseases than the proper statistics would otherwise show.

The only way your stance makes sense is if you've already accepted the conspiracy theory that covid-19 deaths are being artificially inflated on a mass scale that will be significant enough to matter. (Consider this: For example a 10% inflation for whatever reason really doesn't change anything. a 90% inflation would move the needle. But even a 50% inflation isn't really going to change the overall story.) Also, as soon as one abandons the premise of vastly overinflated covid-19 death counts for conspiracy reasons then it's pretty obvious that what they are doing is a good way of getting the numbers - even if it's not 100% perfect (nothing ever is).