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This makes me wonder how the child with terminal brain cancer that dies in a vehicle collision would get recorded.

If you're going to make these claims could you source them?

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6212510

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6624173

https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/coronavirus/2022/3/2/1_5801...

There are plenty more articles about it. This isn’t a Covid denier conspiracy theory or antivax narrative, it was widely reported on throughout 2022 that people were operating under very different definitions of what counts and that some provinces/networks/hospitals/physicians were erring on the side of caution and calling everything short of suicide a Covid death. Quite a few revised their numbers once the media covered it, which is good, but whether that was only reflected on dashboards or was revised downstream I’m not entirely sure.

UK not Canada, but it was literally the official metric used during the pandemic - “death within 28 days of a COVID test”. Does what it says - no more, no less.

https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/27/changes-to-the-way-we-r...

I have a bunch of citations below refuting his claim, but it's currently almost dead due to downvotes. Bummer some people would rather keep spreading falsehoods.

You posted a bunch of citations about the U.S.

Canadian hospitals and provinces explicitly made statements Late 2022/Early 2023 saying they were revising their definitions of a Covid death and going to recalculate previously published figures after stories blew up of the exact type of cases I mentioned. People were getting death certificates for loved ones with Covid listed as the cause of death when it was simply and provably not true, even if they did test positive.

They can't. It's a comfortable lie, nothing more.

They did. Will you retract your insult?

They didn't. Did you bother to read what they posted? They very obviously didn't read beyond the headline.

I knew you wouldn't.

Funny how that works eh? I read those articles when they were first published and again when I linked them.

But because the truth is inconvenient, I must certainly be lying.

Clown.

Here in New Zealand someone died of a gunshot wound, and it was recorded as a Covid death because they were Covid position. It's easy to forget the immense hysteria of 2020.

which provincial healthcare systems? And which were doing antibody testing on every admission?

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