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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Reminds me of the saying, never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

I think they just fucked up rather than being some grand plan.

[–]madcow-5 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Blend. Powers at be are scrambling at the opportunity to seize more.

As far as I can tell, COVID19 is real, spreads rapidly, and is as dangerous as the flu. The death rates match up perfectly with it. COVID19 death count is literally just people who die and test positive for it, as opposed to dying of it (this isn't a conspiracy or a secret, that's literally what the CDC has told us again and again), but the media pretends that count means they're dying of COVID19 for the ratings. That's where the stupidity kicks in and people eat up the fear mongering. Was reading a story today about how 80% of the deaths in my state are in nursing homes, and we've been seeing similar numbers elsewhere.. What percentage of annual deaths do you think aren't elderly people, such as those in nursing homes? Nothing about that sounds strange. Every time a person under the age of 80 dies with covid and the media tries to play it as being dangerous to young people, the mildest amount of digging shows otherwise. Saw a story about a 31 year old who died of it. When you looked into it, and found a story that showed a picture of him, he was like 400ib and looked like he should die any second normally. That GOP congressman that supposedly just died of it according to the media.... Died of a heart attack after a surgery.. Every single time it turns out to be a lie.

[–]Staf 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That man might have died of gunshot wounds but who pulled the trigger? That's right Covid-19.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

When people are on their way out their immunity systems fail and every infection around starts moving in and growing. This is why so many people use to "die of" pneumonia and the flu. But now the hospital gets paid thousands by the federal government if they identify it as a covid death. Of course they're going to do that. It would be fiscally stupid to do otherwise. Its true enough. Of course the person is going to have any virus around growing in them when they're on the way out. So why not call it a covid death?

They use to call a lot of these flu deaths ... but not all of them since there wasn't any financial incentive to test for the flu.