By now you've seen the headlines:
"Italy reports RECORD NUMBER of Coronavirus deaths in one day."
"Coronavirus live updates: 627 killed in a single day in Italy"
"Rise in Coronavirus Deaths Spurs Calls for Tighter Lockdown"
"Italy's coronavirus death toll rises by more than 600 in a single day"
And you conclude, reasonably enough, that coronavirus killed 627 Italians today, and you're shocked, you're scared, you're horrified perhaps.
The problem is, you're being lied to, by the media and by omission, by your government (what's new).
The source for the 627 figure comes from today's press conference given by Italian health authorities. The video is below.
In the video, at the 3.34 minute mark, the speaker says:
"Today we registered 627 new deaths. And I want to remind you that these are people who died WITH Coronavirus, not people who died BECAUSE of Coronavirus."
And therein lies that essence of the problem with the scurrilous, fearmongering BS being proffered about this virus.
Why do you think the speaker stressed that point? Because the vast majority of people who are dying are people with SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONS who most likely died due to those serious health conditions, NOT due to Coronavirus.
I'll repeat what I've said dozens of times already. Last year in Italy, 43,000 people "died from the flu". Now, why do you think this wasn't shouted from the media rooftops at the time? Why were there no "lock downs" in Italy or elsewhere? Why no "pandemic" declared? Why no "self-isolation"?
Because health authorities around the world KNOW VERY WELL that they cannot attribute those 43,000 deaths (or the other ESTIMATED 600,000 deaths EVERY YEAR around the world) to "the flu" because they know that the large majority of people who "die from the flu" every year are the elderly who have one, or two or three existing chronic illnesses, and no responsible health authority would EVER claim that "the flu killed them".
And yet, this is PRECISELY what health authorities, the media and governments around the world are doing when it comes to coronavirus. WHY?
By the way, on average over the past 10 years, 1,800 people in Italy have died EVERY DAY. There are no statistics that I can find that break that number down, but you can bet that a lot of them occur in winter, and a lot of them are elderly with existing serious health issues.
"Italy reports RECORD NUMBER of Coronavirus deaths in one day."
"Coronavirus live updates: 627 killed in a single day in Italy"
"Rise in Coronavirus Deaths Spurs Calls for Tighter Lockdown"
"Italy's coronavirus death toll rises by more than 600 in a single day"
And you conclude, reasonably enough, that coronavirus killed 627 Italians today, and you're shocked, you're scared, you're horrified perhaps.
The problem is, you're being lied to, by the media and by omission, by your government (what's new).
The source for the 627 figure comes from today's press conference given by Italian health authorities. The video is below.
In the video, at the 3.34 minute mark, the speaker says:
"Today we registered 627 new deaths. And I want to remind you that these are people who died WITH Coronavirus, not people who died BECAUSE of Coronavirus."
And therein lies that essence of the problem with the scurrilous, fearmongering BS being proffered about this virus.
Why do you think the speaker stressed that point? Because the vast majority of people who are dying are people with SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONS who most likely died due to those serious health conditions, NOT due to Coronavirus.
I'll repeat what I've said dozens of times already. Last year in Italy, 43,000 people "died from the flu". Now, why do you think this wasn't shouted from the media rooftops at the time? Why were there no "lock downs" in Italy or elsewhere? Why no "pandemic" declared? Why no "self-isolation"?
Because health authorities around the world KNOW VERY WELL that they cannot attribute those 43,000 deaths (or the other ESTIMATED 600,000 deaths EVERY YEAR around the world) to "the flu" because they know that the large majority of people who "die from the flu" every year are the elderly who have one, or two or three existing chronic illnesses, and no responsible health authority would EVER claim that "the flu killed them".
And yet, this is PRECISELY what health authorities, the media and governments around the world are doing when it comes to coronavirus. WHY?
By the way, on average over the past 10 years, 1,800 people in Italy have died EVERY DAY. There are no statistics that I can find that break that number down, but you can bet that a lot of them occur in winter, and a lot of them are elderly with existing serious health issues.