It is a true statement that barring direct observation of data, the cat Might be alive or Might be dead, but it is certainly never true that it can be both.
It is modeling along those lines of thinking, that we are seeing breakthru’s on quantum computing(which is up to 8 Qbits now when last I checked). Shrodinger’s cat paradox has often been taken to ridiculous extremes, it’s more about predicted behavior of subparticles as various points in time and how to corral such behaviors into doing useful work such as creating extremely fast and powerful computers with them.
“the cat Might be alive or Might be dead, but it is certainly never true that it can be both.”
Was the cat sick before he got put in the box? Was there food and water in the box?