The delta variant provided the last push this summer to up our total number of dead. The New York Times summed it up this way: “The latest Covid-19 deaths were concentrated in the South, and included more younger people than before. Every age group under 55 saw its highest death toll of the pandemic this August.”
Then I looked over the shoulder of my wife as she watched a TV interview with two New York City “unvaccinated nurses.” They were saying that the unnecessary deaths were being classified as being from COVID-19. They felt that if a person had an underlying disease — say, diabetes — then that should be the cause of death and not COVID-19, even if the patient was on a ventilator because they couldn’t breathe.
This, then, is another “rationale” that people use for not getting vaccinated. “It is not that bad!”
All I know is that the 1918 flu pandemic killed an estimated 675,000 people in the United States and still as of this writing, with life-saving vaccines available, a percentage of the population refuses to be vaccinated.
