Thread by @BarbLarochelle

The latest round of covidiot straw-grasping is ‘with covid’ vs. ‘because of covid’. On FB last night, Kenney gaslighted the example of someone with a broken leg who turns out to have covid. Healthcare people—why might someone seek treatment and turn out to have covid? 1/4

For example, there are chronic conditions like diabetes or asthma that might be aggravated by having covid, even though the person is unaware they have covid. So they aren’t coming to the ER ‘because’ of covid, but it’s a contributing factor. That’s possible? 2/4

Now, especially, since most people can’t get tested, it seems like there are a lot of reasons a person might feel they need hospital treatment with no idea that they have covid. Kenney’s broken leg example is not a common incidence, is it? 3/ 4

Or, for example, I know someone who has been treated for an aortic aneurysm. If he caught covid and was coughing a lot, it might rupture. Covid would be a contributing factor, right? Their insistence that this is just a flu ignores that covid affects many internal systems. 4/4