COVID-19 kills South Florida cops eight times more often than gunfire the past two years Read more

Tends to show people care more about how people die than how many die. We lost 3000 on 9-11 and it was a HUGE deal, and we swore we will never forget. Now we have lost 800 000 and people say "meh, heart disease kills people too".

So, it South Florida which is where I live we have lost 3 cops to gunfire (and its all over the news every time), while 26 died of Covid, and no one talks about that. These are not old people with cancers, these are fit people in the prime of their lives.

COVID-19 kills South Florida cops eight times more often than gunfire the past two years
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article256195077.html#storylink=cpy
Of the 31 law enforcement officers in South Florida who lost their lives in the line of duty over the past two years, three were killed by gunfire, one died in a car crash and another lost his life to a work-related injury.

The other 26 were felled by COVID-19.

The deadly virus didn’t discriminate. It attacked law enforcement agencies from Miami to West Palm Beach. It killed corrections officers and federal Customs and Border Patrol agents. It took the life of a U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms officer in West Palm Beach. Statewide, there were at least 56 deaths in the ranks — with Florida accounting for more than 10 percent of all COVID-19 law enforcement deaths across the country, according to statistics compiled by a website that tracks policing fatalities.

 

LOL, a young man who died in a motorcycle accident in Orlando was "officially declared" to have died from the phantom virus.

Can't help but laugh--two years on almost and many Americans still do not understand the many limitations of the PCR test. They don't know it was not intended for diagnostic purposes.

When everything the American people believe is false, we will know the success of our misinformation efforts.

 

Such as believing that masks don't work.

 

Notwithstanding the double-standards of media attention toward non-minorities and minorities, this isn't difficult to understand. Police officers are usually the first responders to a 911 call. They have to go anywhere they are needed and that is often in poorer neighborhoods where people may be vaccine-hesitant or outright not going to get vaccinated. People are ridiculously foolish when there is an altercation. A drunk or high person isn't going to stop their <whatever behavior lead to the police being called> to put on a mask or socially distance. They are going to be unruly and in close proximity. We had a guy in our building literally take down EVERY piece of artwork, bulletin boards, brochures, phone books, anything that wasn't nailed down he destroyed and threw in the dumpster. It took at least 5 cops to catch him in the lobby. It was the day shift so aren't with a partner. The first guy had to call for back-up and kept calling for back-up. It's not funny but a 50-something guy that smokes outran five younger men.

A police officer knocked on my door in the middle of the night several months ago. He had on a mask and gloves and stepped back from the door after knocking. I usually don't have any interaction with the police so I don't know if he was required to wear the mask and gloves or chose to do so. I am not a criminal and I've never been arrested and sometimes I forget (like the night the cop knocked on my door at 4A. It's startling to be awakened like that and I simply forgot to grab a mask off the nearby table. He asked me to go outside to look at the person that claimed he knew me and I refused. I didn't recognize the guy's name or his birth date and I don't know anybody that would think it was a good idea to fight a cop so I didn't have to see him to know it was a mistake.

You also have to take into account the sheer volume of people that police officers are exposed to every single day. They aren't going to an office and surrounded by the same people all the time. Last year, our local Aldi's had an employee standing out to disinfect carts as soon as the customer abandoned it. I don't know what the protocol is for every local police department but I would guess they are NOT disinfecting their vehicles constantly throughout the day. They aren't disinfecting carts or limiting the number of shoppers in the store simultaneously (I think the rule was 1/3 of the Fire Departments limit) now either.

And, from my understanding from our health department, they can ask a COVID-positive person to quarantine according to the latest CDC recommendations and they can put a restriction notice on their door but they can't FORCE them to quarantine and they can't do anything about if they don't.

This is sad news for sure and I don't "qualify" the level of sorrow based on skin color, race, religion or anything else. The same people that fight against pro-choice people don't seem to hesitate to wish death upon <whatever group of people they hate>. Law enforcement officers already have a high risk job and, clearly, these rampant variants are making it even more dangerous.

 

Got a link?

 

Such as believing that the CDC, FDA and NIAID have the public health as their primary interest. Such as believing that one's government would never deceive him/her.

 

Indeed. Like when the CDC told people to unmask right before Delta (because the White House ordered them to to cover for Brandon's failings) knowing full well it was massively more contagious and then what happened? Delta ravaged America.

 

Calling COVID-19 a "line of duty death" seems like a stretch to me. Sort of like calling Brian Sicknick's death a "line of duty death". Maybe they caught COVID while working, but there's no real way to know. Maybe they caught it at the grocery store or movie theater, or their wife / kid brought it home with them.

 

Both are important information.

... because it was a terrorist attack on our own soil.

Those 800,000 people have died of all sorts of causes... none of them covid-19, as covid-19 in and of itself doesn't kill.

... because murder is a big deal.

... because covid is a manufactured "crisis" and those 26 deaths were due to causes other than covid.

Yup.

COVID-19 kills South Florida cops eight times more often than gunfire the past two years
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article256195077.html#storylink=cpy
Of the 31 law enforcement officers in South Florida who lost their lives in the line of duty over the past two years, three were killed by gunfire, one died in a car crash and another lost his life to a work-related injury.

The other 26 were felled by COVID-19.

The deadly virus didn’t discriminate. It attacked law enforcement agencies from Miami to West Palm Beach. It killed corrections officers and federal Customs and Border Patrol agents. It took the life of a U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms officer in West Palm Beach. Statewide, there were at least 56 deaths in the ranks — with Florida accounting for more than 10 percent of all COVID-19 law enforcement deaths across the country, according to statistics compiled by a website that tracks policing fatalities.[/QUOTE]
See above. Covid-19 in and of itself doesn't kill anyone.

 

Masks work alright... FOR THEIR INTENDED PURPOSES... which is NOT filtering viruses, or stopping/slowing the spread of viruses.

Masks do not work with regard to viruses.

 

Using that 'argument' heart attack doesn't kill you either, its the lack of oxygen in your system.

Those cops died of Covid. It rendered their lungs incapable of providing enough oxygen to their body and they died.