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Jonathan Engler's avatar

We need to keep in mind what the true question which needs asking is, and what the stakes involved are.

The important question is not: was there or was there not some unavoidable excess death?

It’s: what would have happened had we just carried on responding to whatever “it” was as we always have.

We’ve been sold a lethal deadly pandemic caused by a single agent spreading from a point source, which justifies all sorts of expensive and intrusive institutional infrastructure to “prevent” again in the future.

Did that happen? Or, at worst, did we have a middling bad out of season flu-like outbreak, made dramatically worse through misadventure which took many forms.

Summed up nicely in the conclusion to this:

https://www.hartgroup.org/a-autopsy-on-covid-deaths/

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Barney Rubble's avatar

"So I think in this country we'v taken a very liberal approach to mortality."

Dr. Dunce Birx

07 Apr 20

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