I semi was as well meaning the more realistic ~40k (vice ~400k+) covid-19 deaths wouldn’t affect the over all US death rate by much.
Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are not even remotely related. Agree I was just adding covid-19 (common cold variant) to the flu and pneumonia death rates.
I don’t believe anything the CDC has to say.
2020’s attributed COVID-19 deaths were equivalent to having another 2017-2018 flu and pneumonia season boosted by 13 percent.
13% of 61,000 is 7,930. Current delta between 2019 total deaths and 2020 total deaths is 436,257. If we took the "13%" number at face value, we're still not accounting for 428,327 excess deaths. And where did that 13% number come from? Just made up?
And none of this still accounts for the fact that 1,000,000 doctors and 5,000,000 nurses are all seeing COVID-19 patients coming in sick and dying. So what's more likely? That a million doctors, 5 million nurses, millions of lab workers and medical examiners all got together with local and state health departments and the CDC in a massive conspiracy to fake a disease, then somehow convinced tens of millions of doctors and nurses around the world to go along with it because....?
Or that a real disease that started in China made its way around a very well connected world via ships and airplanes and that incompetent leadership from state governors exacerbated the problem to the point that untold tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths occurred? I can tell you that I've never seen 50 million people engage in a perfectly executed worldwide conspiracy together, but I HAVE seen PLENTY of government incompetence before.
And I'm expecting to see a whole lot more of it for the next 4 years.