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You know, what really upsets me
Sep. 21st, 2022 01:37 amis that I'm pretty sure that without the pandemic, Mommy would've gotten a bipap and a pacemaker at least six months earlier, perhaps as much as a year earlier.
That might not have extended her lifespan, although I think it would have at least a little, but it would certainly have improved her quality of life. Heck, getting out and about, moving and seeing people, would've possibly done both those things... though then again, she still would have been buying cigarettes without lockdown, so maybe that particular factor, not so much.
I tried googling about secondary deaths due to the pandemic, but other than one 2020 paper suggesting the terminology "tertiary deaths" for those like my mother's, where the condition was going to kill them sooner or later, but the pandemic probably made it sooner, I couldn't see if anybody is even still attempting to estimate those. Maybe they all coalesced around some different vocabulary for this sort of thing, and my search terms are wrong.
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That might not have extended her lifespan, although I think it would have at least a little, but it would certainly have improved her quality of life. Heck, getting out and about, moving and seeing people, would've possibly done both those things... though then again, she still would have been buying cigarettes without lockdown, so maybe that particular factor, not so much.
I tried googling about secondary deaths due to the pandemic, but other than one 2020 paper suggesting the terminology "tertiary deaths" for those like my mother's, where the condition was going to kill them sooner or later, but the pandemic probably made it sooner, I couldn't see if anybody is even still attempting to estimate those. Maybe they all coalesced around some different vocabulary for this sort of thing, and my search terms are wrong.
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