Eric Newhill
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Yes, the absolute numbers are small. But that wasn't relevant to the point. The point was whether the mortality rates were preferentially rising in the group most at risk of dying - "those in their expected year of death". Or whether the mortality rates were preferentially rising in groups not in their expected year of death. If your claim was correct, then the largest increase in mortality rates should have been in the >85 group, not the reverse trend where the lowest increase was in the >85 group, and the highest increase in the <45 group.
Ok. I can't resist replying because you out clevered yourself and just made my point for me. I declare victory.
1. Even the CDC has the elderly (especially with comorbidities) as 1. being at highest risk 2. being the vast majority of deaths both as a rate and in raw volume.
2. I said that most of the people allegedly dying due to covid (or with covid) were at their actuarially expected year of death anyhow. So the pandemic is not really a thing to worry about for the rest of us and is over-hyped.
3. You come back and state that the mortality rate is not preferentially rising in the elderly. Thank you! That confirms point 2 (above). The bulk of people allegedly dying from covid were expected to die anyhow. There is no preferential increase in that cohort's deaths and that is the overwhelming bulk of covid deaths. To restate, the overwhelming bulk of covid deaths were expected covid or no covid. Case closed. End of story.
4. I will repeat that the increase in death rate among 25 - 40 year olds is due to covid policy, not the virus. People that couldn't get access to healthcare, deaths of despair brought on by isolation, loss of jobs, drug ODs, suicides.
I'm glad you now, by your own argument, must agree that the whole thing is a scam.
So why are we even talking about masks? The reason is, as Alex noted, junk science is becoming another weapon in the information wars for your mind and soul.