It Makes You Wonder, Doesn't It?

 This morning I read something posted by Wally.  It was a news article from Memphis, Tennessee.  A Man had received a letter from the health department.  Actually it was addressed to his mother, but he received it and opened it.

The news was that she, his mother, had tested positive for COVID and was instructed to isolate herself for 14 days.

Ok....that sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

Here is where the 'makes you wonder' happens.

His mother died.  In February.

He called the health department to question this and was told that she had been given a test for COVID in June and since the results were positive, she needed to isolate herself.

Well.....

She was given a test in June?  She died in February.  She was cremated.  

The first COVID test in that county was given in March, a month after she died.

Plus if she were alive and had been tested in June, why did it take so long for her to be notified to isolate herself?  She would have been well past the recommended isolation time of 10-14 days.

According to the article, the voice on the other phone said she would need to contact her supervisor. The man was still waiting for a return call.

But doesn't this make you wonder how valid the testing and the reporting of results really is?

There have been many other similar stories, such as the victim of a motorcycle accident in Star City dying from his injuries....and COVID was also listed as an additional cause of death.

There were many reports of people not being tested and receiving positive test results.

A friend said that she and her husband had tested positive, then were required to be re-tested until a negative test result was found.  Each time she and her husband tested, they were still positive, and two more numbers were added to the number of positive test results, even though they were the same people who continued to test positive.

A friend who is a funeral director said that when a patient dies of COVID, the number is recorded where the person died, but it is also recorded as a death in the home county of that person. So one person's death is reported twice--two deaths instead of one.

Now is some or many or all of these instances, there will be arguments that the information is not factual, that it is being spread without factual scrutiny, that there are people who are just trying to show that the virus isn't really that dangerous or that a conspiracy is happening, just to scare people and force them to stay home.

But what about the CDC revising their numbers and quietly announcing that many of the deaths had other causes?  

What about the Indiana Dept of Health reporting on their state map and in the stats accompanying that that the numbers have jumped---but the time frame is tilted to make it look like nunbers are higher?  Oh my!  Look at the number of new deaths!  Double digits!  Time frame---from the beginning of July to the first of September?  Oh.  Two months.  

I know the virus is serious.  I know that precautions are needed  And I am not trying to lessen the seriousness of it.  But sometimes I wonder how much inflation of numbers, how many of these stories are really true, and how much 'someone out there' is trying to keep all of us so scared that we let our lifestyles change so much that our freedoms are going to slowly and quietly disappear without our realizing it?

It just makes me wonder.