To add to this and elaborate for OP: 1) The PCR tests widely used to test for an active covid infection were explicitly not designed for that use and had an enormous false positive rate. This lead to grossly inflated covid diagnoses. 2) Many governments provided large financial incentives for treating patients who "had" covid or who died "from covid'. E.g. viral pneumonia and covid had some symptoms overlap, so hospitals would diagnose both as "covid" to collect more money from Medicare and similar programs. 3) Government disease tracking agencies like the CDC, WHO, etc conspired to record almost all cases of influenza as covid. That's why you see flu "cases" for a year or so decrease by a ridiculous amount and covid increase by the same amount. There was *some* covid going around, but almost all cases of flu were mislabeled as covid to spread hysteria and justify more government spending. 4) Covid didnt directly kill you. The body's excessive immune response in the form of a cytokine storm would kill you if your immune system was already compromised (e.g. if you were vitamin D deficient) or by clogging your lungs with fluid. The problem is, compromised lung capacity is not something you can do anything about in an emergency. If you were healthy, covid's temporary oxygen impact wasnt much worse than visiting a higher elevation for a few weeks. If you were already a hamplanet or lifelong smoker, you were staring death in the face because you cant undo that damage overnight. Doctors had financial incentives to declare rona the cause of death as well as social incentives to tell the families that their loved one *died from rona* rather than *died from being morbidly obese* while being sick with the flu/rona/viral pneumonia. 5) A shit ton of people died from retards demanding doctors "do something" and spineless doctors kowtowing and putting people on ventilators. Ventilators compress the lungs. If your diaphragm isnt working, ventilators are great. If your diaphragm is fine and your lungs are full of fluid, you're trying to compress fluid. That effectively turns your lungs into a hydraulic press and crushes them. Doctors pervasively did this, so they'd much rather blame covid for killing patients rather than covid making the patient sick and the doctor's malpractice killing the patient. 6) Aside from the furin cleavage sites someone else mentioned, Covid's symptoms are pretty unusual for a corona virus. It'd cause a cytokine storm which would exhaust you and fill your lungs with phlegm. If you're healthy, that was VERY distinct because other common Western diseases dont simultaneously make you feel like you just went running 5000' higher in elevation while also wanting to sleep 16 hours per day. The problem is those are only distinct for healthy people. If you're already a fatass who gets winded walking down a flight of stairs, everything from the common cold to the flu gives you those symptoms because just being alive at 350 lbs is that way. Which lead to covid being overdiagnosed.