If people aren't dying of Covid, then what are they dying from? I'm talking primarily about the huge spike in excess deaths (irrespective of official reason) prior to the vaccination programme.
I know the answer, just wondering what you think.
In my opinion, Covid-19, as virus, does not kill by itself. It just quickens the illnesses and problems organism have. If persons is healthy and has a great immune system, then he should not be afraid of covid. But, for example, if a person has first stage of lung cancer (first stage is not the most dangerous one) and get a covid. Then covid can speed up this first stage into fourth and the risk of a death is greatly increased. I would say that covid is just a booster, that speeds the development of persons illness or organism destruction.
I cant say that I am a very healthy person. But compared to my sporty colleague, after second Pfizer shot, I had high temperature and felt destroyed, and he does not.
That might be true if Covid proved fatal
only for people with pre-existing health conditions... but that's not the case. Plenty of healthy people have died from it, too. Certainly having an existing condition, particularly something affecting the lungs, can increase your risk, but that doesn't mean if you have no underlying conditions you are somehow immune.
Covid-19 is a coronavirus. There are plenty of other coronaviruses about. Many generally cause only mild symptoms, some (e.g. SARS and MERS) are far more deadly. Covid-19 is less deadly than SARS or MERS, but is more transmissible... so it kills more people in total. A big part of this is that is it a
novel coronavirus, i.e., it is new, which means there is no pre-existing immunity within the population. This means there is nothing to prevent its spread. Compare with the devastating effects of virus introduction to Latin America by the Spanish colonialists.
Covid-19 is a
pandemic; it is everywhere. The route out of this is herd immunity, which means a sufficient proportion of the population is immune, which prevents the virus spreading, which reduces the amount of virus in circulation, which reduces the chance of new variants arising. Individual immunity can be obtained in one of two ways, a) catch the virus, or b) take the vaccine. Obviously taking the vaccine is the safer method.