By Ryan C. Wood

Hopefully factually information about the leading causes of death will provide some light and sanity regarding the response to the Coronavirus. In the United States the most dangerous things to you during the Coronavirus hype and hysteria to your health and life are your own eating, exercise habits and then just living life.  Forgive me if I argue the current reaction to COVID-19 is disingenuous. I am also not advocating doing nothing about the Coronavirus. The fact is if 500 people die worldwide each day from the Coronavirus that is still nothing compared to what are the leading causes of death. It is about priorities and the greater good.  If the world and world governments actually cared about your health declarations of emergency should have been issued long ago for the list of leading causes of death that already exist.  Instead billions of dollars are made and the world profits from things that are the leading causes of your death.   Heart disease, then cancer and then accidental death kill about 119,000 people in the United States each month (CDC).  These are the top three things you need to be concerned about yesterday, today and tomorrow. What is the point of quarantine, travel restrictions and hysteria when much more serious and widespread causes of death exist?

How many economic casualties resulting from the Coronavirus hype and hysteria will I as a bankruptcy attorney have to treat by filing bankruptcy for them?

Diarrhea, the 5^th worldwide leading cause of death will kill more people worldwide then the Coronavirus ever will.  Google it and read for yourself.  The Center for Disease Control provides 2,195 children, just children, die each day worldwide due to diarrhea.  EACH DAY!!!     

Worldwide preterm birth complications are the 8^th leading cause of death. 

I understand much is not known about the Coronavirus. What I have no doubt about is there will be far too many bankruptcy filings due to the Coronavirus hype and hysteria.  The truth is they were probably financially at the teetering point already and then this happened.  Hype and hysteria they had no control over will devastate their financial life.  The same thing is ironically true for those that the Coronavirus is medically harmful to.  The truth is they were probably medically at the teetering point already and then the Coronavirus happened and it killed them.  Their immune system was already compromised.  I hope that I do not have an uptick in business given the hype and hysteria about the Coronavirus.  Nothing at this point leads me to believe there will NOT be far more serious economic devastation than medical devastation resulting from COVID-19.    

Top Ten Causes of Death in the United States

1. Heart disease: 647,457 a year or 53,955 a month
2. Cancer: 599,108 or 49,926 a month
3. Accidents (unintentional injuries): 169,936 or 14,161 a month
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 160,201 or 13,351 a month
5. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 146,383 or 12,198 a month
6. Alzheimer’s disease: 121,404 or 10,117 a month
7. Diabetes: 83,564 or 6,694 a month
8. Influenza and pneumonia: 55,672 or 4,639 a month
9. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 50,633
10. Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,173

Heart Disease – Leading Cause of Death in the United States

Guess what?  You are your own worst enemy.  Not the Coronavirus or anything you can catch from another human being.  The Center for Disease Control provides the leading causes of heart disease are: diabetes, overweight and obesity, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and excessive alcohol.  There should be a declared national emergency about the pandemic of food abuse given the number of people dying.  The food killing 54,000 people in the United States a month that leads to heart disease should be quarantined until people eat healthier food.  Imagine that.  That would be tax dollars well spent to ensure more people in the United States live each year.  People should be quarantined and forced to exercise.  Obviously the government and people are very concerned about your medical wellbeing, right? 

What are the leading causes of diabetes?  Eating habits and lack of exercise; just sayin.

Cancer

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States.  The leading causes of cancer are smoking/tobacco, diet and physical activity, sun and other types of radiation and viruses and other infections.  49,926 people in the United States die each month and there is no state of emergency declared.  When will a state of emergency be declared? 

Accidental Death                            

This is the third leading cause of death in the United States.  Wrong place at the wrong time and POW you are dead.  Please think about how you are driving to hoard that toilet paper or other items at the store.  So hey, yeah, do not go to work because of the hype and hysteria but continue to drive like a maniac contributing to the 14,166 accidental deaths in the United States a month.  Or take every crazy precaution possible then get crushed to death by a falling rock in Yosemite National Park.  That is 427 people every day dying.     

Did you known the Center for Disease Control estimates there are 38,000 new HIV/AIDS infection each year in the United States?  That is 3,167 a month.  Why is there no state of emergency?  Why was there no state of emergency declared years ago about HIV/AIDS?

So part of the issue here is how the limited resources we have are used.  Why is the world so concerned about the Coronavirus when millions of people suffer from known leading causes of death each year without such fanfare?  This is nothing new but for some reason a new virus is stealing the headlines.  Is this the new normal?  Who cares about the actual and devastating leading causes of deaths and instead declare states of emergency, initiate quarantines for any new virus?