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> We know that the counting of deaths was done very questionably. Toronto Public Health itself admitted that as early as June of 2020: > "Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

They also advise that the actual number of deaths from covid-19 is higher than reported. Regardless, deaths were curtailed due to the measures in place. without these measures, once hospitals reach critical capacity, deaths would sky rocket, not just from covid but all sources.

> Later on, we saw news reports like this one: > "Patients died from neglect, not COVID-19, in Ontario LTC homes, military report finds: ‘All they needed was water and a wipe down’"

This report is about two care homes in Ontario, it is not representative of the millions who died.

> We also saw news reports like this: > "Hamilton Health Sciences takes down field hospital that didn't see a single COVID-19 patient"

Tents setup on playgrounds were never the first line of defence, they were a contingency for other measures which worked. without the measures you're arguing against, those tents would have been very much used.

> Like I'd mentioned earlier, there was severe overreaction displayed by many people and organizations, and it resulted in irrational behaviour.

You keep asserting that, I don't agree.

In other news like in the ones from Saxony at some point there were so many deaths that the crematoriums ran too hot as they had to burn dead people non-stop. Article just like these were the norm for some months in 2020. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/dunkle-...

That one field hospital didn't see a single COVID-19 patient could have a lot of reasons for example, patients went to another one.

From my experience, people around me who got COVID suffered and/or died. Others had mild symptoms. You are either lucky or your were not. :(

None of this moves the needle on your assertion that COVID was "just a cold" or that it was a sort of collective psychosis. You've identified measuring errors and some badly done logistics - hazards we have when considering a large scale under any circumstances - and from there you leap shear light-years to your conclusion.

No matter how the deaths were counted in the moment, excess death counts after the fact saw an increase of 12.8% during Covid in Ontario. So, unless there was another mysterious cause of death taking out around 75,000 people a year there, the mortality rate estimates pre-vaccine were pretty spot on.

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/excess-mortalit...