>That alone doesn't cause me to look at the 400k and think it's any more reliable, as if I wanted to say: "Yeah, but 50k of that could have been from flu!" I don't know if I'm being clear. A person could try to attack that figure by saying, "Well, it's actually less because influenza counted for a ton of it." There could be 50k flu deaths in the covid number. But you still have to explain the relative increase from the previous year . Which could be fraudulent “deaths” or some back log of dead people but it just doesnt feel likely because too many people are involved in rolling up that data — they arent all orthodox jews so one is likely to spill the beans sooner or later. >chiro It actually sometimes makes me think of chiron, who was also super smart, and kind of a cute horsey character to boot. Not to imply that you are horsey. But it would be kind of neat if you were. https://files.catbox.moe/ioro2h.jpg