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CNN, BBC, NBC say so! Hum, lets look at https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths Compare with let say France and Italy. Hum, well that is interesting.

CNN, BBC, NBC say so! Hum, lets look at https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths Compare with let say France and Italy. Hum, well that is interesting.

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Remember that PCR threshold has been quietly lowered from 45 cycles average to 32 cycle average, and now after mass vaccinations you can expect PCR threshold to once again drop. This has the effect of reducing positive results, false or otherwise.

If you make your testing methodology more strict, you will have less cases by virtue of fewer values falling into range.

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I’m basing my conclusions on the death rates and the infection rates, not just the latter. Both follow the same trend so we can exclude PCR test numbers as a possible variable.

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I don't think we can so simply. Remember that a lot of people were pushed to the brink due to these lockdowns. We still have not been able to measure the human cost of shutting down everything. A lot of suicides from people who lost everything, a lot of people dying because hospital services were not available, the list goes on and on. It's little surprise we would have additional mortality from that alone, and obfuscates what the disease itself was responsible for.

*edit Then consider that a lot of people might not have died had they NOT gotten intubated or treated at the hospital. I had a nasty version of COVID last year I almost went to the emergency room because I was a little short on breath. Instead my doctor prescribed me a steroid inhaler, which I didn't even end up using. I think NOT going to the hospital and letting them operate on me kept me alive.