I have a friend who is attending a funeral tomorrow of a childhood friend who he says 'died of the cova', but he has no idea who determined the cause of death nor whether any post-mortem was ever performed. As it is a private and painful matter and he is far from being any clinical expert, I doubt I will ever know whether this 'died of the cova' was ever anything but a convenient rumor that took hold based on no more than someone hearing about a prior 'testing positive' circumstance, whatever that even means or ever did.
Shoving a Q-tip up to one's eyeballs and looking for genetic anomalies to confirm a lucrative urban myth hardly seems to be much of a test of anything, other than the obedience of the one submitting to this humiliating torture for no god reason. I allowed this to be done to me one time only because I required unrelated surgery and the clinicians had their hoops to jump through. I never inquired as to any result of this silly act, nor could I care less what they came up with. I am either ill or I am not, is all the 'test' I require, and I am not nor have been infirm in any way for many years. What goes on inside my body is nobody's business, and what threat of contagion I may pose to others is entirely a matter of politically-supercharged speculation.
Basically, get out of my face about this 'covid' bullshit, is about all I have to say about it.
It seems that the fundamental distinction between 'died of' and 'died with', just for instance, has been completely obscured in this comedy of superstitions called 'covid', just as all clear and precise usage of terminology has been. We are left with little more than a choice of mindsets based purely on suppositions in order to decide for ourselves just how real a threat this thing is now or ever has been.
The net result is that language itself, in trying to discuss this 'covid' phenomenon, has lost all meaning. When nobody who claims someone they knew has 'died of' this thing appears concerned with who it was that made that determination nor how, nor is even able to acknowledge the multiple perverse incentives to record a 'died with' as a 'died of' in order to sustain funding or just propagate an advantageous mythology, whenever I hear this claim being made I simply assume that someone has falsified something in the records for reasons having not the least connection to concerns for public health.
I have a friend who is attending a funeral tomorrow of a childhood friend who he says 'died of the cova', but he has no idea who determined the cause of death nor whether any post-mortem was ever performed. As it is a private and painful matter and he is far from being any clinical expert, I doubt I will ever know whether this 'died of the cova' was ever anything but a convenient rumor that took hold based on no more than someone hearing about a prior 'testing positive' circumstance, whatever that even means or ever did.
Shoving a Q-tip up to one's eyeballs and looking for genetic anomalies to confirm a lucrative urban myth hardly seems to be much of a test of anything, other than the obedience of the one submitting to this humiliating torture for no god reason. I allowed this to be done to me one time only because I required unrelated surgery and the clinicians had their hoops to jump through. I never inquired as to any result of this silly act, nor could I care less what they came up with. I am either ill or I am not, is all the 'test' I require, and I am not nor have been infirm in any way for many years. What goes on inside my body is nobody's business, and what threat of contagion I may pose to others is entirely a matter of politically-supercharged speculation.
Basically, get out of my face about this 'covid' bullshit, is about all I have to say about it.
It seems that the fundamental distinction between 'died of' and 'died with', just for instance, has been completely obscured in this comedy of superstitions called 'covid', just as all clear and precise usage of terminology has been. We are left with little more than a choice of mindsets based purely on suppositions in order to decide for ourselves just how real a threat this thing is now or ever has been.
The net result is that language itself, in trying to discuss this 'covid' phenomenon, has lost all meaning. When nobody who claims someone they knew has 'died of' this thing appears concerned with who it was that made that determination nor how, nor is even able to acknowledge the multiple perverse incentives to record a 'died with' as a 'died of' in order to sustain funding or just propagate an advantageous mythology, whenever I hear this claim being made I simply assume that someone has falsified something in the records for reasons having not the least connection to concerns for public health.
Those are great thoughts- thank you!