Then WTH were people dying of back then?
Was it a case of dying —with— covid, instead of dying —of— covid???
I remember that comment by Acton vividly, and the resulting discussion at work. It was made the same day that was the last day in the office for many in our work unit who had all their ITT stuff ironed out for work-from-home.
The rational among us, precious too few, were tryin to parse through it for others in order to demonstrate the idiocy of it all.