X already handled it above by noting that the flu kills people with pre-conditions as well, yet those deaths are not attributed to flu deaths the same way Covid deaths have been attributed.
But your rebuttal still doesn't address deaths for, e.g., people in hospice with terminal cancer who are going to die within days *anyway* whether the have Covid or not. In another thread, we were talking about Alex Trebek, who recently died of pancreatic cancer. Under the method for which they have accounted for Covid deaths, that would have been attributed to Covid, never mind the fact that he had been battling pancreatic cancer for a while.
And nothing has touched on the literally thousands of Covid deaths (hell, thousands in NY alone) that were attributed to Covid despite not having a positive Covid test but instead based on mere symptoms that *could* have been consistent with covid but could have just as easily originated from a common cold. How can you count any death as a Covid death in the absence of a legitimately positive Covid diagnosis in the first place? (Hint: you can't).
No matter how you slice it, the data for Covid that we've been force fed and which has been used to justify huge societal disruptions is irrevocably tainted beyond the point of usefulness. No person with a *healthy* level of skepticism should take this data at face value or consider it as having any real scientific worthiness. It's not to say that Covid shouldn't be taken with some level of seriousness, but it certainly tainted enough that we have nothing resembling the true picture of the severity of this virus.
So instead we run around like chicken littles acting as if the sky is falling, when nothing of the sort is happening. But to pretend it is makes people feel virtuous and makes them feel better about surrendering the management of their lives and their essential liberties to government officials who are only too happy to take that power away while doing all they can to avoid accountability for their own fuck ups.
As I said above, I can see how people lose their freedoms because this exercise has shown how fear can be ginned up to get people to give them away over a virus which isn't really much of a threat to an overwhelmingly large majority of us.
I almost want to say that it's too bad for King George that he didn't come up with a pandemic like this during the American Revolution. But I stopped because the Revolutionary generation fought that during a smallpox pandemic. Wonder what they would think of us now.
