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DeminPennswoods

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14. Pretty much agree

Reply to greenjar_01 (Reply #10)

Thu Mar 26, 2020, 04:12 AM

Mar 2020

although I think a death certificate would just say repiratory failure, but I know in my state, the death certificate asks for the cascading causes so cause of death would be something like acute respiratory failure, caused by pnemonia caused by flu/copd/sars2, etc.

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Is the lack of testing nationwide actually intentional to keep the official death toll low? [View all] LonePirate Mar 2020 OP

yes rampartc Mar 2020 #1

Most likely but 2naSalit Mar 2020 #2

If that's their thinking, they don't understand numbers. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2020 #3

No. It's due to a lack of preparedness. In other words, incompetence. onenote Mar 2020 #4

Of course it was. Notice that the states that aren't testing much are RED states? pnwmom Mar 2020 #13

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" would have been greyl Mar 2020 #5

Absolutely budkin Mar 2020 #6

Ohio has been given virtually no tests. Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #7

Right. And it's very unusual to do autopsies on very old people who die of natural causes, right? pnwmom Mar 2020 #15

I think it is a combination of incompetence and conspiracy. Tipperary Mar 2020 #8

Trump does not want to spend the money we should be spending and... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2020 #9

A doctor does not need a test to write "COVID-19" as a cause of death greenjar_01 Mar 2020 #10

Pretty much agree DeminPennswoods Mar 2020 #14

No, all doctors wouldn't do that. Why would you even think that? We know that pnwmom Mar 2020 #16

***HE SAID IT !!! *** He said it in regards to the cruise liner he didn't want numbers to go up uponit7771 Mar 2020 #11

This message was self-deleted by its author DeminPennswoods Mar 2020 #12