You have the .gov disclaimer of "Deaths during this time may not yet be reported".......so it begs the question.......Where is KSL getting their information from? Who do we trust? At this point I don't put a lot of faith into anything other than looking at the trends and averages and the picture if very clear. While infection rates may be rising or staying high.....the hospital and death rates as a % are not rising.
coronavirus.utah.gov
I'm across the street from the 4th Street Clinic. The nurses are our most regular customers. All I can say is that they feel like they are on the front lines of a war zone right now. According to them, COVID Is a major problem in the homeless population they deal with.
They seem to be flourishing in CA. I'm guessing flu + cold weather in Utah and this is a normal thing for them. But surely they would admit that.
I would imagine accurate numbers from the homeless population are not easy to get, regardless of what those numbers are representing.
I completely agree that the numbers being reported are over inflated at best, that the protection provided by masks is questionable and that the rushing of vaccines could hold some serious consequences in the future. The problem is that I personally know enough people who have lost family members (including ones with no known medical conditions) that I cannot believe anymore that the whole thing is fake. Keep in mind that I also know MANY people who have had it and recovered fine. I'm even pretty sure the wife and I both had it last month even though her test was negative (she was very sick for a few weeks with most of the normal symptoms). Try to console a friend who has lost family members including a parent and it becomes much more real.
I do know people that think you are IMMUNE to COVID if you wear mask. A couple of them have gotten sick despite their mask wearing
None of us like wearing masks, most at my job don't wear them properly, far as I know nobody there has got it from there, we are also not packed in like sardines, we are at 70+ positive cases reported since March, of those that have had it that I have spoken to either it was the sickest they have been or they've had worse. My cousin who is between 45-50 and I assume was healthy, former olympic diving trainer in his younger days, car salesman by day, he was placed in a coma and intubated for 13 days, I hear he is recovering and on oxygen right now. I assume he got it from his job, I was told many of his co-workers also had it.
I explained it in a previous post, but you are looking at 2 separate statistics. The top story is REPORTED deaths..not that they died today (or yesterday) It was when it was reported to the Health department as a Covid death. The 2nd is the DATE OF DEATH. There can obviously be a lag between when the person dies and it shows up as reported.
