In the early days of the pandemic I sat down with the numbers that were available. They were not great, even then when no politicians were trying to fuck with them. Any doctor or coroner with a body could make that death vanish from the national statistics for years, without breaking a single rule. It was always a game that was counting on the system having a decade to catch up, and with the medical system itself holding to a gentlemen’s agreement between doctors.
I suppose that sums up most of the problems with the modern world, and the real anomaly is that we thought medical issues were in some way special.
In the early days of the pandemic I sat down with the numbers that were available. They were not great, even then when no politicians were trying to fuck with them. Any doctor or coroner with a body could make that death vanish from the national statistics for years, without breaking a single rule. It was always a game that was counting on the system having a decade to catch up, and with the medical system itself holding to a gentlemen’s agreement between doctors.
I suppose that sums up most of the problems with the modern world, and the real anomaly is that we thought medical issues were in some way special.