Mea culpa, mortality

June 1, 2021. Who do you believe and what should you believe when it comes to claims as to Covid mortality rates? 'Causes of death' on a death certificate are based on a subjective, political policy, not hard science. The absolutely clear conclusion is that while many people are dying with Covid in their system, there are times where doctors assume that Covid is present, based on symptoms and context, and not on a validated test for Covid. In addition, when significant, well-established co-morbidities are present, there is no science that can claim that Covid alone was the cause of death.

Perhaps the hardest part about my distrust of Dr Fauci and the CDC is the fact that they get to define a Covid-caused death, they keep score on the Covid death count, they gain stature with the increasing count, and they have no skin in the game, no accountability. They are the perfect example of a self-serving "public servant,' whose personal and professional interests do not necessarily align with those of the people who pay their salaries and their bills. The fact that Fauci is the highest paid federal official ion the payroll, at eighty years of age and after forty years of presiding over the 70 million death AIDS pandemic, is sufficient for me to turn up my bullshit alert meter. Followed by his smug, disingenuous testimony before skeptical congressmen and his smirking face on his plethora of media exposures leaves me both cold and suspicious.

One final note: The table shown here would be more illustrative and convincing had the designer of the table included all causes of death AND acknowledge the fact that many of these 'line items' are misleading, as there are almost always multiple co-morbidities with a 'Covid death,' e.g., one line for 'Covid deaths' with no pre-existing co-morbidities present AND include both the projected and actual mortality rates for each year, especially important given the increase in the elderly and overall population in the United States, making raw death counts misleading.