IS THIS A JOKE?
This jest encapsulates people’s understanding of the cynical way that any and all deaths are written up as “covid fatalities”:
Wife to husband: “Honey, did I get fat during the lockdown?”
Husband to wife: “Well, you weren’t all that skinny to begin with.”
From police report: HUSBAND’S DEATH OCCURRED AT 22:00. CAUSE OF DEATH — COVID.
CDC’s all-encompassing criteria for what constitutes a “case of covid” explains:
- why the CDC can claim that an astounding one in three Americans fell victim to “the pandemic” in the 15 months from February 2020 to May 2021;15 and
- why the CDC can claim that. during the 15 moths from February 2020 to May 2021, more than 600,000 Americans died due to covid ;16 and
- why the CDC can claim that covid was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020,17 and
- why official statistics say that numbers of covid deaths keep rising in America.
When the rules state that virtually every death that occurs — whether from falling off the roof or drowning in the bathtub, whether from crashing a motorcycle or falling prey to a driveby shooting — falls under the definition of “covid death” … is it a “pandemic” … or a “scamdemic”?
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Sources
15 CDC. “Estimated COVID-19 Infections, Symptomatic Illnesses, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States.” 2021 Jul 27. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html
16 Helsel, Phil and Austin Mullen. “Covid has claimed more than 600,000 lives in United States.” NBC News. 2021 Jun 03.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-has-claimed-more-600-000-lives-united-states-n1269580
17Ahmad, Farida B., et al. “Provisional mortality data—united states, 2020.” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 70.14. 2021 Apr 09. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8030985/