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>Complications of medical and surgical care Is the ~30th cause of death in Canada. In US it's the ~3rd. Why the order of magnitude difference? Is US healthcare 10x more incompetent or are these stats massaged?
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…
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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?
No, if one ends their life prematurely by suicide, then suicide is the cause of death.
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It's more likely this is people dying with covid and not from covid. If someone covid positive has a stroke or heart attack which column is that being written in?
I have had to write my share of death certificates, and most docs will write the easiest thing that gets the corner off their back. These statistics may be broadly true
medicine is unlike technology in that it has a much much higher level of human error in data points (intentional or not).
Died "with covid" or "of covid"..? Hmm ...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
No, if one ends their life prematurely by suicide, then suicide is the cause of death.
For example, imagine that 99% of all the euthanized are people who chose it after a diagnosis of the "Insane Agony Virus."
Obviously we would want all those mortal data-points to get counted as reasons to fight IAV, even if only a tiny number of people died because the virus finally turned their brain to mush after weeks of thrashing about on a table in mind-breaking pain.