@MrBrownstone Why did you leave out the fatalities??
Regardless, you do raise the question: Are the Covid death numbers the result of mis-classification of other causes of death?
Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020.
Notice how, in 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths are classified as Covid? Notice how almost all causes of death rose in 2020, including cancer & heart disease?
If there's any validity to the claim that lots of deaths have been mis-classified as Covid, why did almost all causes of death increase in 2020? Wouldn't mis-classification produce a reduction in those other causes? The evidence says mis-classification is a red herring.
@ElwoodBlues Australia - we had it basically thrust down our throats that if you did not get tested with even the most minimal difference to your normal state of health you were not 'complying' with health directives issued by government agencies. The inference was that if you choose to ignore 'minor' symptoms or did not feel you had any change to your normal state of health that you were at high(er) risk of having Covid and spreading it 'unmonitored' and 'undetected'. This was at the time when state government's here were trying to enforce the use of flawed 'contact tracing' apps and systems, and pushing for people to 'check in' using a qr code accessed app anywhere they went.
@zonavar68 I think you are giving an incomplete and misleading summary of what people were saying.
Yes, they said, correctly, that being infected and asymptomatic posed an additional risk since you would not know to take caution. But nobody said that having no symptoms was a sign that you were infected.
My wife and I had loved ones who died from COVID.
People who joke about or minimize the seriousness of the pandemic are on my sh--list.
@zonavar68 DUUUDE!!! You're TOTALLY living in the WRONG COUNTRY!!!
Australia had a Covid death rate 10X lower than the US. Australia also has a murder rate 10X lower than the US.
If you want to live dangerously, you're doing it ALL WRONG!! Come to the USA. But not just any state will do!! Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama top our murder rates, but stay away from the New England states – they're almost as safe as Australia! Mississippi also scores high in Covid deaths, so that's where you should move!!
As a special bonus, Mississippi is also home to some snake-handling Christian sects, such as the Free Will Holiness Pentecostal Church. Yes indeed, you can test how much God loves you by handling deadly vipers every Sunday. It's the PERFECT lifestyle for a guy like you!!!
