>>10487495 (pb)

Stop. Moran. Just stop.

Your argument is full of conjecture but you don't seem to know it. Sure, if someone with diabetes gets COVID they die of COVID. However, you need to know if the illness that killed them was COVID or something else. Hospitals had massive incentives to call any respiratory illness COVID. PCR testing detects genetic material that matches genetic material from the pathogen that reportedly causes COVID. However, it does not appear to have been proven conclusively that the genetic material detected is causative for COVID. Not only that but a person could have residual amounts of not infective "viral" genetic material without being infected or sick with COVID. PCR testing is not effective for DIAGNOSIS. Diagnosis is a medical endeavor. Doctors were told to fill out death certificates in a manner that would presume a certain constellation of symptoms was COVID. Using flimsy methods our US CDC managed to call 160,000+ deaths "COVID". Of those deaths 94% had serious comorbidities that could have put them at risk of early death via many, many different viruses, pneumonias, etc.

You could argue that the whole set of data is pretty hopelessly corrupt and therefore neither the 160,000+ nor the 9,000 or so deaths is a meaningful number.

What you CAN say from the numbers is that of the 160,000+ deaths ATTRIBUTED to COVID, 94% occurred in people with such serious conditions as to make their demise in any given year not too surprising. What this means for the rest of us is that if you are young and don't have any serious chronic conditions, COVID (even if a real, novel virus) is a NOTHINGBURGER.

>>10487498 (pb)

Most DEFINITELY inflated for financial gain. Hospitals could get an additional $39,000 dollars per patient on a ventilator with COVID vs. without. A respiratory illness that was called COVID, but did not require a ventilator still got the hospital an additional $13,000. (Those numbers are sure odd, aren't they? : "13" and "3 x 13"?)

Also, CDC did some really evil shit with the way they commanded doctors to fill out death certificates. Dr. Scott Jensen, who covered this was promptly investigated for telling his experiences with the new "guidelines".

If you recall hospitals had to stop most elective surgeries during the shutdowns. This made them pretty income starved. Then they were told that they can get federal money for COVID cases, especially if the patients end up on a ventilator. What do you think that produced? Why didn't Cuomo take advantage of POTUS' offer of the hospital ship, etc? Could it have been because his city hospitals needed patients to force onto ventilators for money? Remember the health care workers claiming the "care" in NY hospitals amounted to murder? What do you suppose happens to people place on ventilators inappropriately?