Not really. Most COVID deaths were largely caused by insane govt policies, lack of treatment, giving people deadly treatments (remdesivir and ventilators after they tested positive on b.s. PCR tests), lockdowns, refusing to prescribe antibiotics to people who were made dependent on them, etc..
How do we know this?
Excess death spikes in spring 2020 were synchronous with the announcement/govt protocol rollout, i.e. the excess death hotspots in 2020 were NOT from covid but from govt protocols. There were hardly any excess deaths before the rollout of these protocols. The “COVID peak” represents an accelerated mass homicide of immune vulnerable individuals, and individuals made more immune-vulnerable, by government and institutional actions, rather than being an epidemiological signature of a novel virus.
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Your posts are often very thought provoking but IMO you often make some significant "leaps"
. Were our government policies insane - Yes
. Was Remdisiver bad- yes
. Did ventilators work - no although IMO this was not intentional but in the early stages what the Dr' thought would work.
.Excess death spikes and the rollout of protocols would always be expected in the initial phases of a pandemic. IMO they are not cause and effect.
To me where you error is the inference i get reading your post is that Covid was in and of itself NOT a very serious death threat especially to older and unhealthy people. If you simply look at deaths across all countries where government policies and treatments varied there were still many deaths.
If i read the numbers even in Sweden who by most accounts did not adopt insane policies annualizing to the size of the US population would have had 600,000 deaths. A far cry from the US one million but still a huge number and Swden is generally a much healthier country IMO.
It blows my mind that Fauci and his like and China have paid no price for a huge crime against humanity. That is for the development and cover up of the virus.
The results of the crazy polices after the virus in my view were extremely detremental in ways not measured by death rates.
. Incredible loss of learning for our youth
. huge negative impact on the economy only mitigated by unbelievable government spending and inflation
. Excess deaths from non caring for existing conditions during Covid
. A huge cultural division in families and in the country [the worst I have seen since the 60"s race riots] regarding covid policies.
But Covid was IMO a deadly and serious virus. See point one above.