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If you want to play number games like that, then you should also acknowledge that many who died were on the brink of dead already without Covid. You should only count excess deaths, not who was tested or not.

Show me the 3 million excess deaths, before you continue with the alarmism.

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Eh, you probably should count what actually killed them, though you can make some arguments.

If you have let’s say two years left to life and COVID ends up finishing you off, that’s a death due to COVID.

Just show me the excess deaths.

And what if somebody has only one month to live, and dies with Covid, also a death from Covid? Maybe yes, but really worthy of hyperbole then?

My grandmother died from the flu, at 99 years old. I never felt I should blame her death on the flu pandemic, though.

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