In Nueces County, Texas, there have (or had – see below) been no deaths from COVID-19. Most of the country also has had few cases and no to few deaths. The coronavirus is not the return of the Black Death as once advertised.
These are not convenient statistics for those who wish to keep us shut down. But statistics can be invented, don’tcha know. Take the supposed first Nueces County COVID death, for example (with all sympathy and prayers for the friends and family of the lady mentioned):
The Corpus Christi-Nueces County Public Health District received confirmation of the first COVID-19 related death in a Nueces County resident. The patient tested positive for COVID-19 in early March, but subsequently tested negative prior to being discharged from the hospital at the end of March. The patient was a female between the ages of 70 and 79. The patient was recently re-admitted for complaints of abdominal pain and other underlining issues. The patient subsequently passed away April 19, 2020.
Although this patient had tested negative prior to being released from the hospital, COVID-19 is a new disease and there is limited information regarding risk factors for severe disease and subsequent complications.
As the press release acknowledges, there were a number of “issues” behind the woman’s death. And she had tested negative. So why was she put down as a COVID-19 death? We are not told. One would think that is an important detail.
Statistic padding like this breaks down trust. It feeds distrust towards those who insist on keeping us partly shut down.
And that distrust is well earned.
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