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Lawmakers seek federal grand jury investigation for COVID-19 statistical manipulation
Just the news ^ | 12 October 2021 | Greg Piper

Posted on 10/12/2021 1:52:20 PM PDT by Fractal Trader

The CDC adopted a "double-standard exclusively for COVID-19 data collection" that inflated cases and deaths starting early in the pandemic, violating multiple federal laws and distorting mitigation policies, Oregon lawmakers told the feds' top lawyer in the state.

Advised by "a large team of world-renowned doctors, epidemiologists, virologists, and attorneys," state Senators Kim Thatcher and Dennis Linthicum petitioned U.S. Attorney Scott Asphaug to approve a grand jury investigation into how the pandemic is being measured.

"Public health policy must be based upon accurate and independently verifiable data to optimize outcomes and strengthen the public's trust in the people leading them through this crisis," the Republican lawmakers, whose state has imposed some of the harshest and longest COVID restrictions, wrote in a letter with several attached exhibits.

One is a synopsis of allegations, findings, relevant law and implicated agencies intended to "assist grand jury members in orienting themselves to the scope of alleged crimes committed."

Their letter is dated Aug. 16, but the materials were not released for a month to "protect those involved," Stand for Health Freedom (SHF), the holistic medicine and legal nonprofit behind the petition effort, said in last month's announcement.

File Thatcher-Linthicum-Grand-Jury-Petition-AUSA.pdf "I'm not sure there has ever been an allegation of government wrongdoing on this scale," so the group wanted to assess "accuracy and safety" before going public, relationship manager Bailey Kuykendoll told Just the News.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


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The CDC's National Vital Statistics System told mortality data compilers to emphasize COVID-19 as the "cause" of death in a March 2020 alert, departing from a 2003 federal manual on recording infectious disease as a "contributing factor to death" in the presence of preexisting conditions, the letter said.
1 posted on 10/12/2021 1:52:20 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: ransomnote; Jane Long

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2 posted on 10/12/2021 1:52:44 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

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3 posted on 10/12/2021 1:55:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Fractal Trader

yea, they will get to this just after Hillary’s personal email account used for government business and Hunter’s laptop investigations..........


4 posted on 10/12/2021 1:58:24 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: Fractal Trader

No Shiite....


5 posted on 10/12/2021 1:59:15 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Fractal Trader

Fauxi’s corrupt CDC screwed the actuarial tables for at least half a century. The actuaries are going to have to recreate them at their own risk and convince the market to accept the modified product.


6 posted on 10/12/2021 2:01:01 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Fractal Trader

Since federal money was handed out to states based cases, how could manipulating statistics to maximize covid cases/deaths not be the equivalent of medicare fraud?


7 posted on 10/12/2021 2:06:11 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Fractal Trader
Very good article. Thanks for posting.

Leftists believe it is virtuous to lie to people "for their own good."

8 posted on 10/12/2021 2:06:12 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Excellent point! I hadn’t thought about that. Since insurance depends heavily on this data to set rates and decide who they will insure. To falsify this data should be fraud in this case.


9 posted on 10/12/2021 2:07:53 PM PDT by 556x45
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To: Fractal Trader

If you were hit by a bus while on your way to get your jab, it was counted as a COVID death.


10 posted on 10/12/2021 2:15:53 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Fractal Trader; All

I wonder if this is the investigation Naomi Wolf was discussing on War Room this morning.


11 posted on 10/12/2021 2:22:52 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 (It's not the job of the unvaxxed to protect the vaxxed. That's the job of the "vaccine.")
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To: seowulf

One correction: federal money is taxpayer money.


12 posted on 10/12/2021 2:26:04 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: seowulf

It’s not fraud when the government orders you to defraud it...


13 posted on 10/12/2021 3:15:47 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Fractal Trader

Other countries have also had issues with this.


Authoritarian regimes’ propensity to manipulate Covid-19 data: a statistical analysis using Benford’s Law

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 2021;59:3 Published online: 26 Jul 2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2021.1916207


Rapid Response:
5th example: Statistical manipulation
Dear Editor

The editorial by Abassi [1] points out that people and science suffer when politicians (and by the media) manipulate scientific results to present a different reality. Of course, medicine is not an exact science, and in consequence different perspectives can always be present. We are accustomed to seeing different studies providing distinct results on same parameters and systematic reviews aiming to strengthen one line of thought or another, increasing the statistical power of any result achieved.

It could be added another clear manipulation in the Covid pandemic has been the death statistics. It is not good to present the real scale of the effect of the pandemic in the country? It seems not, and like with the Spanish flu in 1918 when the truth was silenced to prevent its depressing effects in the troops, it is now altered, even when a secondary consequence is the reduced engagement of the population in the drastic measures needed to reduce its death toll.

A death linked to a disaster should be properly recorded in any death certification to improve future planning and preparedness [2]. If a patient dies 6 weeks after a diagnosis of covid-19 and never recovered, it is a direct consequence of the disease and it should be in part I of the Medical Certificate of Death (MCCD). If a patient dies because its cancer treatment is delayed due to the inability of the health service to provide the required therapy, it should be considered an indirect death of the pandemic, and it should be in part 2 of the MCCD. And when considering the effect of the present pandemic all these deaths need to be counted, rather than omitted from MCCDs and national statistics presented to the public. We need to accept the truth and learn from it.

References
1. Abbasi, K. Editorial. Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science . BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m4425

2. US Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics. A reference guide for certification of deaths in the event of a natural, human-induced, or chemical/radiological disaster. Hyattsville, Maryland USA: CDC 2017. available https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49294

SSM Popul Health. 2021 Sep; 15: 100832.
Published online 2021 Jun 12. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100832

Political regime, data transparency, and COVID-19 death cases

Conclusion
A significant number of people have suffered from and died of COVID-19. The overwhelming number of casualties in democratic countries is daunting enough to make us wonder whether the very foundation of democracies, such as their respect for individual rights and freedom, may be liabilities in combatting the pandemic. Some scholars have indeed provided the view of “efficient autocracy,” with data showing the apparent correlations between regime types and public health in favor of nondemocratic countries. This view, however, remains unconvincing, and this study has attempted to challenge the validity of such a view. Authoritarian countries do not tend to have fewer COVID-19 deaths; instead, as suggested by this study, a critical determinant of the higher reported number of COVID-19 deaths is likely to be data transparency. To view the relationship between freedom and health as some sort of tradeoff is superficial and misleading. The current pandemic, though it often appears overwhelming, should not let us doubt the legitimacy of and the core values associated with democratic government.


14 posted on 10/12/2021 3:30:13 PM PDT by consult
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To: consult

Great stuff!

People have tried to complain that Benford’s Law doesn’t apply to them (see 2020 election) and have revised Wikipedia to cover their tracks.


15 posted on 10/12/2021 3:38:57 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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