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Covid-19 3rd leading cause of death among Canadians in 2022

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Post by amatecha »

Ah, this is the perfect summary to explain to people when they ask "why are you still wearing a mask? COVID is over" or similar queries invalidating my caution around this virus.

Worth noting is it was the 4th-leading cause of death in 2020 and 2021.

Not sure why this is being downvoted into oblivion, as I regularly get some hassle from people about my strict adherence to wearing a mask indoors around people, and the more I can say beyond "I don't feel like getting COVID", the better. Otherwise I have to go into a story about how, directly via COVID infection, a friend's mom died, a coworker's wife is left wheelchair-bound and can't even complete a phone conversation without being left breathless, one of my favorite musicians has called it quits after a complete loss of hearing in one ear.. etc... As a programmer I highly value my clarity of thought and am not going to risk that because people apparently feel the need to bother me about being cautious. Honestly cannot figure out why anyone feels the need to even comment on it, as it has no effect on them, and in fact helps keep them safer.

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Post by tptacek »

amatecha wrote: post #3

Ah, this is the perfect summary to explain to people when they ask "why are you still wearing a mask? COVID is over" or similar queries invalidating my caution around this virus. Worth noting is it was the 4th-leading cause of death in 2020 and 2021. Not sure why this is being downvoted into oblivion, as I regularly get some hassle from people about my strict adherence to wearing a mask indoors around people, and the…

People shouldn't bother you about wearing a mask, or bother storekeepers who request patrons mask, but a reason to push back on state-mandated masking isn't that COVID isn't serious (it clearly is), but rather that the empirical evidence for masking, especially vs. the new strains, is quite weak

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Post by seattle_spring »

Since it’s inevitable for someone to pop in and breathlessly claim these numbers are falsely inflated, here’s some light reading in preparation:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debunking-the-fal...

https://www.aha.org/news/blog/2020-11-02-aha-continues-debun...

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/11/07/how-covid...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2772693

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/hospital-payments-and-the-...

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Post by lukev »

graphe wrote: post #5

The number by COVID is 19,716. Euthanasia is absent on here but is 13,241 for context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia_in_Canada

Regardless of one's opinions on if MAID is a good idea, it seems unfair to regard it as a "cause of death". Wouldn't that be more correctly attributable to the underlying condition?

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Post by kenferry »

simonw wrote: post #2

Are the figures for the USA for 2022 out yet? Found this for 2021, where Covid came third as well: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm Heart disease: 695,547 Cancer: 605,213 COVID-19: 416,893

Provisional figures are out. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7218a3.htm

COVID’s down 47% from 2021, but still the 4th leading cause of death at 244,986.

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