We've been doing the "wrongly attributed deaths" dance for days. Every time you bring it up I have to remind you that some states report their confirmed numbers as well as the presumed cases and the difference isn't that much.
Even assuming 50% of the cases are falsely attributed (which isn't even close to true), we're still talking about 2000 deaths a day from COVID. That's a lot of people dying (you can look up the old thread for comps of that death rate, it's still enough to be in top 5 causes of death in the US).
Not to mention that I could also bring up the excess deaths statistics (number of bodies showing up in morgues is atypically high compared to a year ago). A lot of these are people who died with COVID at home and were never tested and do not count towards the official numbers.
Any cursory investigation would tell you a lot of people are dying right now. If we can't agree on the basic premise of COVID kills 1000s of people every day, none of the rest of the conversation has a point.
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