The local obits are not showing a spike beyond normal...
local obits: try this on. The local TeeVee news guys report that anywhere from 5 to 10 people die, in the hospital, every day from the ceebug. For the past 1 1/2 years not one, repeat not one, of these deaths has been reported in the same local paper. And a year ago the local crematorium burned down but there is absolutely no reporting on where the newly dead bodies are going?
The scam is far deeper than is permitted by normal imagination.