NuttMegg
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I wonder though, how these statistics are compiled. So many are dying at home, they can't get into hospitals, but they aren't included in studies of "hospitalized" patients. Also, I wonder about the military on all those tightly-quartered ships, bunk rooms, etc. I don't think we see any military stats at all.
I wonder how many of the rest of you watched in disbelief at the daily body count pressers during the Vietnam war. Officials would go on camera every afternoon and proudly relate how so many more of the enemy were killed vs US troops. 58,000 of my countrymen, including high school guy friends, were slaughtered. It was a huge controversy, few believed the government's pressers. I sure hope we never get the idea that a parallel event is occurring now, only certain segments of patients being counted in order to "open" the country.
Vietnam War body count controversy - Wikipedia
Body count inflation
In the summer of 1970, H. Norman Schwarzkopf writes, "the Army War College issued a scathing report," that, among other things, "criticised the Army's obsession with meaningless statistics and was especially damning on the subject of body counts in Vietnam. A young captain had told the investigators a sickening story: he'd been under so much pressure from headquarters to boost his numbers that he'd nearly gotten into a fistfight with a South Vietnamese officer over whose unit would take credit for various enemy body parts. Many officers admitted they had simply inflated their reports to placate headquarters."
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