I just saw something pop up on my YouTube home page, where some "pastor" was saying we've been lied to and that the cdc just spoke the truth. He called out this line in a report:
"For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned."
And went on to talk about how this is all a hoax, because only 6% of the reported number died front it, and see, it's nothing like we are told. Mask wearing doesn't matter. And the classic "I've never known anyone who was hospitalized."
We are clearly being lied to!
What I'd suggest instead is that the issue here is that he (and others like him) don't know how to read a chart. Hey, the headline sounds good, why dig any deeper?! This is a failing of many to just accept one thing you hear without context, because it fits your narrative. It's a failure to understand how "cause of death" is recorded. And it's also a failure to understand basic science.
What this actually shows is that some of the underlying conditions many Americans have contributed to the higher-than-the-rest-of-the-world mortality rate.
I'd ask: do we have more deaths from these conditions than we had in previous years? The answer is yes, and therefore it's accelerated due to coronavirus. You might argue "they might have died anyway," and that may be true, but it's missing the point that that they also had coronavirus, and that’s what is shown - but Covid was still the ultimate cause.
They are just listing other conditions, because that what scientists do when they’re trying to understand what’s going on.
It’s so hard to counter stupidity.
We're doomed....
COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics
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