The COVID Response. What We Got Wrong.

Part VIII: More on the Accuracy of the Count 

In this series, I’m trying to cover the many ways the WHO, the CDC, our government, and the mainstream media responded badly – in some cases, almost hysterically – to the COVID pandemic. It’s going to take a while to go through everything. There is just so much.

On Friday, I looked at one of the craziest things that happened – the purposeful overcounting of the number of people that died from COVID. It was done by hospitals and other medical facilities all over the US, because the CDC decided that anyone that died with COVID would be counted as someone that died of COVID. We now know that this resulted in overcounting COVID-caused deaths by a factor of 7 to 10. And as I said on Friday, this was not a mistake. It was intentional. It was done to scare the hell out of people in order to achieve certain political aims.

 Overcounting COVID deaths was a huge problem. But we had another problem that was just as big. I’m talking about undercounting COVID cases in the early days of the pandemic, which made the official fatality rate much, much higher than it really was. Again, I contend that this was done intentionally. No sane person could believe that it could have been an accident or a mistake.

In the early days of the pandemic, there were very few COVID testing facilities. And very few test kits. And considering the fact that COVID symptoms for the young and healthy were so mild (sometimes non-existent), the number of cases not counted back then was probably in the millions. Maybe even the tens of millions. We will never find out.

Like overcounting deaths, undercounting cases greatly exaggerated the mortality rate, and thus created widespread fear that, in my view, bordered on a pandemic of hysteria fueled by the WHO, the CDC, the government, and the media.

Back then, I predicted that the lethality rate – which was first estimated at 10% and then gradually moved down to 5% – would continue to decline as the availability to test for COVID grew. My guess was that it would come down to 2%, and quite possibly below1%.

Once again, I was right. The latest estimates put the lethality rate at 1% for wealthy countries like the US and Europe (that have high percentages of older people) and only 0.25% for poorer countries that have larger younger populations.

And remember… for the most part, those numbers come from the likes of the WHO and the CDC, which are still grossly exaggerating the death count.

My new prediction is that, before too long, the fake-death-count charade will end because its political usefulness is over. And that – except for older people (65+) dealing with obesity and diabetes – the overall lethality rate will drop from 1% to 0.2% to 0.4%, which would mean that it is, and always was, no more deadly than the common flu.