Simply not true. I am doing the opposite. IMO the number of Covid caused deaths is grossly overstated. We have had cases of people being counted as dying from Covid when they were killed in an automobile accident. This is not accidental. The Government is using the fatality numbers to scare people.
“Covid death” counts are artificially inflated. Countries around the globe have been defining a “Covid death” as a “death by any cause within 28/30/60 days of a positive test”.
Removing any distinction between dying of Covid, and dying of something else after testing positive for Covid will naturally lead to over-counting of “Covid deaths”. British pathologist Dr John Lee was warning of this “substantial over-estimate” as early as last spring. Other mainstream sources have reported it, too.
Considering the huge percentage of “asymptomatic” Covid infections, the well-known prevalence of serious comorbidities and the potential for false-positive tests, this renders the Covid death numbers an extremely unreliable statistic.
The vast majority of covid deaths have serious comorbidities. In March 2020, the Italian government published statistics showing 99.2% of their “Covid deaths” had at least one serious comorbidity.
These included cancer, heart disease, dementia, Alzheimer’s, kidney failure and diabetes (among others). Over 50% of them had three or more serious pre-existing conditions.
This pattern has held up in all other countries over the course of the “pandemic”. An October 2020 FOIA request to the UK’s ONS revealed less than 10% of the official “Covid death” count at that time had Covid as the sole cause of death.
I don't know what you mean by "Covid morbidity costs." Are you talking about cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc.? I am certainly not discounting those costs. In fact, it supports my contention that our public health policies have focused too narrowly on Covid, and not on more significant issues. The huge amounts of money spent on businesses, individuals subsidies, and vaccines could have been better spent elsewhere. We should have targeted the most vulnerable and let everyone else live their lives. Covid is not a death sentence.
I am well aware of several hospitals forced to delay non-Covid related preventive and therapeutic procedures due to the deluge of symptomatic Covid patients who required serious and intensive therapy. Still other hospitals set up one or more field hospitals to manage the intensive Covid patients this summer.
There was a surge that dissipated. Our system was not overwhelmed. FL had its surge this summer, but it is now over. DeSantis handled it well without panicking.
Stop already with your one-horse pony show.
I don't think I can make my position any clearer.