Posted on 01/25/2021 9:34:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Remember way back in August, when folks started raising a big stink over the fact that 94% of reported COVID-19 deaths involved at least one other comorbidity?
The CDC now claims that 94% of all coronavirus deaths were supplementary, meaning, the person had co-morbidities. Less than 10,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 alone. #Coronavirus is and always has been a hoax. Democrats masked & impoverished America to rig an election.
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) September 1, 2020
Well, though the overwhelming prevalence of comorbidities on death certificates fingering COVID-19 does, indeed, also finger the CDC for not just cooking the books, but doing so in ways that likely violated federal law, the problem isn’t nearly as straightforwardly simple as Candace Owens and most other folks took it to be.
Strap on your thinking caps ladies and gents, we’re about to get into the COVID-19 weeds here. But, don’t despair, as Spinoza taught us:
— Michael Thau (@MichaelThau) January 25, 2021
And, coming to terms with the flagrantly crooked accounting used to terrorize the American people into submission so we’d roll over and accept heretofore unheard-of restrictions that completely trashed our nation’s founding commitment to individual liberty is—at present—about as noble as it gets.
And besides, you can trust Dr. Mike to make it all go down as smoothly as a cold Gatoraid on a scorching hot day.
The CDC calls those “comorbidities” that 94% of alleged COVID-19 fatalities had suffered from as of August, “other contributing causes” (OCC).
But, as natural as the assumption is, “OTHER contributing causes” does NOT mean “DISTINCT contributing causes.”
The upshot is that it’s entirely possible—and, indeed, in the vast majority of cases exactly what you’d expect assuming there was a legit reason to list COVID-19 itself to begin with—that the comorbidities appearing on a death certificate along with C19 were also directly caused by it.
Take, for example, the approximately 68,000 decedents with pneumonia listed as an OCC.
Assuming COVID-19 really belonged on their death certificates as well, all those cases of pneumonia would have resulted from the virus infecting the patient’s lungs and, hence, by themselves alone, would in no way imply that any of the poor souls weren’t also straightforwardly killed by it.
2⃣For example around 68,000 people have "influenza & pneumonia" as an additional cause of death. I'm not 100% sure here, but my impression is that means one or the other or both. If that's right, the pneumonia COULD have been caused by COVID. pic.twitter.com/vKYT1SIqok
— Michael Thau (@MichaelThau) August 30, 2020
Similarly, around 55,000 had “Respiratory Failure” listed as an OCC. And, again, it’s perfectly possible that COVID-19 is what caused all those respiratory systems to break down and, hence, was the straightforward primary cause of their demise.
Likewise, for the 20,000 or so decedents with “cardiac arrest” listed.
4⃣The confusion is ppl naturally interpret "other contributing causes" to mean "DISTINCT contributing causes." But that seems to be wrong. Conditions that COVID MIGHT have caused count as OCCs. E.g., around 20,000 have "cardiac arrest" as OCC, which MIGHT have been caused by C19. pic.twitter.com/4efBjK7fbx
— Michael Thau (@MichaelThau) August 30, 2020
Moreover, besides including factors that could have themselves been directly caused by the virus, other OCCs completely distinct from it may have contributed to the patient’s demise without thereby implying that COVID-19 isn’t what really killed him.
For example, around 20,000 of those reported COVID-19 deaths had obesity listed as well. And, even if none of those folks would have passed away had they not been significantly overweight, that obviously in no way implies that COVID-19 wasn’t really the true culprit.
Totally understand that. My dad had advanced acute myeloid leukemia at the time it was diagnosed and died 12 days later. But, the 1st cause of death on his death certificate was myocardial infarction. Secondary, AML.
— Jennifer Van Laar (@jenvanlaar) August 30, 2020
Now, to be clear, none of this is to say that COVID-19 really was responsible for all those deaths.
Indeed, we have plenty of reason to believe it wasn’t.
We’ve known for a while that people who died from gunshot wounds or in road accidents and from suffering myriad other traumatic and sudden deadly events are, nonetheless, showing up on the virus’s death roster.
The motorcycle crash is far from a unique incident.
The CDC presently lists 3,177 death certificates that include "intentional and unintentional injury, poisoning, and other adverse events" in its COVID death count.https://t.co/25SqGHWcIN
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 20, 2020
And, to make matters worse, some researchers at the indispensable COVID-19 site, Rational Ground, just released a bombshell report based on careful examination of 700 Florida COVID-19 death certificates over half of which they found to contain very troubling irregularities and/or list another cause of death which clearly makes the virus irrelevant to the patient’s demise.
– 84M, PART 1: a. Cerebrovascular accident, b. atherosclerosis, PART 2: COVID-19 pneumonia
– 85M, PART 1: a. Ischemic cardiomyopathy, PART 2: Chronic kidney disease, COVID-19
– 57M, PART 1: a. Coronary artery disease, PART 2: asymptomatic COVID-19 positive swab2/
— Justin Hart (@justin_hart) January 24, 2021
Indeed, the first fact everyone needs to deeply internalize is that the primary phenomenum we’re dealing with here is NOT people who were killed by the virus but, rather, people who were reported as such.
When we look at COVID-19 death stats from the U.S. or anywhere else, the immediate object of awareness—the sense-datum, as we called it back in my days as a philosophy professor—is just some very disturbing bookkeeping. And it’s an open question whether that bookkeeping reflects an equally disturbing reality or, instead, whether it merely results from accounting practices adopted by the CDC that created the false impression of something awful.
Why would the CDC engage in such deception?
Money, duh, what else?
Though the mainstream press’s strange abandonment of that most sacred of journalistic principles, Follow the money!, when reporting on the virus means that hardly anyone is aware of it, relentlessly honking the COVID-19 panic-horn turned out to be very profitable for the CDC, indeed.
As RedState reader and statistician, Kurt Schulzke notes in a soon-to-be-released bombshell report of his own:
The CDC’s original 2020 budget of ~$8 billion grew six-fold, to ~$46 billion in 2020, all in response to perceived Covid-19 mortality.
Moreover, this would hardly be the first time the CDC finagled with the criteria for some disease they’ve made megabucks touting in ways that make the touting a whole lot easier.
Back in 1994, AIDS cases actually declined. But any effect this might have had on the CDC’s bottom line was averted by a timely expansion of “the surveillance case definition” of AIDS, which the CDC itself admitted would result in at least a completely bogus 75% increase in cases and others have claimed the CDC’s own data shows wound up, in the event, more than doubling them.
So, you’d have to be pretty unworldly to think the CDC didn’t do at least a little fudging when they scared the bejesus out of our lily-livered members of congress and netted themselves that 6-fold, $38 billion increase in their 2020 budget.
And, as it turns out, besides being naive, you’d also be risibly mistaken.
As an outfit called Children’s Health Defense noted way back in July,
On March 24th, the CDC decided to ignore universal data collection and reporting guidelines for fatalities in favor of adopting new guidelines unique to COVID-19. The guidelines the CDC decided against using have been used successfully since 2003.
And that March amendation to how COVID-19 deaths got counted together with another one a few weeks later in April resulted in… wait for it… a ten-fold increase in the number of reported fatalities over what the numbers would have looked like under the old guidelines that—for some strange reason—suddenly weren’t good enough for COVID-19 and COVID-19 alone.
Moreover, another outfit issued a report in October which makes a very compelling case that, besides (once again) committing the most despicable violation of public trust imaginable, the CDC also flagrantly broke United States law…
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Take a break, stretch your legs, and maybe grab a bite to eat, folks. We will both resume and conclude today’s lesson in reprehensible and obscene bureaucratic perfidy at 6 pm right here at RedState.com
The CDC was encouraged to, and did break the law. And now, what? You expect those that encouraged the lawlessness to do something?
Yeah, ok.
Gotta wonder how this would have all played out had Hillary been the President in 2020.
bkmk
IIRC, Colorado had a few gunshot deaths during hunting season that were called COVID...
It would have been handled the same way the Swine flu of 2009-10 was handled: as a story of second tier importance. No running tallies of cases or deaths either.
This is a recurring theme —
Government: “I’m going to change the rules at the last minute, because it helps my Narrative.”
“Uhhhhhhh, you can’t do that. It’s strictly against the law.”
Government: “Who’s gonna stop me??”
“Uhhhhhhh, courts? Hey, judges, can you step in here and tell this guy he can’t break the law?”
Courts: “Not my problem.”
Government: “HAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Big Pharma pushing the vaccines!!!
There are some terrifying stories about the after effects of the 2-shot vaccines.
I’m not getting one (or two).
I know 10-12 people that have had the covid and the only one that died lived in an assisted living home, was 86, had a bad heart, dementia and 'lived' the past three years in a wheel chair, but died from covid.
I have said from the beginning that covid is a virus, so is the flu, and both can kill you.
The covid hoax is the treatment that the press and demonRATs have given it.
Did anyone notice that the covid death charts had been removed from the cnn shows?
Today, cnn announced that 43 states have experienced a decline in covid since last week.
It's a miracle, St joe has cured covid.
Exactly.
Mistakes were made, but nobody Will be held accountable.
New laws that restrict the freedoms of million of Americans will be passed “to make sure nothing like this ever happens again”
It would be very interesting to see the breakdown of the increased funding base which allowed for the budget increase. Obviously the bulk of the money was taxpayer funding. The balance could reveal a more sinister reason to part with the dollars.
Dr. Deborah Birx was quite upset on her interview yesterday because nobody listened to her. Now finding out she has committed a crime? She’s going to go thru the roof.
Along these same lines. CDC fanned the flames on AIDS/HIV in the late eighties. At the time, the CDC was telling everyone that AIDS/HIV was breaking out into the heterosexual population and that it would become a major pandemic. After some very aggressive questioning he admitted the chances of a heterosexual non-intravenous drug user becoming infected with HIV was very small. After being caught he claimed CDC was justified in making these claims because the public was becoming too promiscuous. Turns out the real reason was CDC knew that as long as AIDS/HIV remained a homosexual/intravenous drug user phenomena, CDC would have little chance of big budget increases.
Ever since the Spanish Flu pandemic, virologists have stressed the need for more funding to prepare for the next pandemic. Every new virus is used as an excuse for them to advocate for the funding increases they think necessary. Of course, they make be right in doing whatever they can to be prepared for the next pandemic but that doesn’t justify lying to the American people.
All this tells me is that due to reaction both by the public and them, to the overblown numbers, the libs will take credit for keeping it so low even though they were getting inflated numbers by forcing the lockdowns and mask requirements which they will say actually worked. This turn around is for the libs to be reborn into the superheroes they weren’t being identified as but for the conservatives (Trump) that said the mask and lockdowns were not doing much. Sorry for the doom and gloom. But whether or not the election was honest is just a piece of the sham. Everyone’s been had!!
Funny part is that if the disease was not near as bad as it was being overblown into, they wouldn’t have any more need for all the precautions they took as they didn’t do it during the Obama years when in the last year of Obama’s term they had 23K deaths from the flu according to the CDC. Comparing the numbers, that was 132% over the deaths they now claim in 2020.
So how much of a sham was it when it was even worse then? Or if it was an honest misuse, then how bad did they mismanage the scenareo? Not seeing a lot of confidence builder here? But they, through the use of the media, will be walking on water in a couple of weeks with the reality being unneeded effort, blown spending, destruction of private lives both financially and psychologically, taking credit for things they didn’t do, and using the virus to take control of government and our lives totally. (And it’s already started)
wy69
REPORT: CDC Change in COVID Criteria That Inflated Fatalities 10-Fold Also Broke Federal Law
That law is meant for us little people certainly not them!
Most covid deaths reported around the country (94%) were from co-morbidities and and the patient tested positive for the virus when they died. They died of something other than the corona virus. But they were reported as covid deaths nonetheless.
One reason was that doctors and hospitals were given hefty financial incentives to diagnose their cases as covid. This is outside the CDC's dramatic budget increase of tens of billions of dollars cited in the article.
I've been repeating this fact for months and telling anyone who would listen that the death toll from covid was dramatically smaller than was being touted by the "medical experts" and Trump haters.
If the current number of total deaths reported from covid is 400,000, then the real number of people who have died from it is only 24,000. And 80% of those deaths were from vulnerable people over 70 years old. This is less than total fatalities from auto accidents annually since the 1940's.
And with a 99.8% survival rate, this has all been much to do about nothing.
I've been saying all along that the American public has been conned into believing this virus is deadlier than it actually is and that all of these onerous, draconian mandates about masks, social distancing and lockdowns are all politically driven.
But I suspect that a good portion of the population has been sufficiently indoctrinated about the risks involved with the corona virus and the disease it causes, covid, that there will always be a Fellowship of the Mask sect who will continue to wear masks long after the truth comes out about the hoax the government has perpetrated on the country.
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