In a recent article, I accepted public health stats on ordinary flu and COV, and showed the insane contradictions in numbers and in government containment strategies.
In this article, I take another angle.
The CDC has been lying about ordinary flu for decades. So why wouldn't they continue their fine tradition of lying about COV? Why should you believe ANYTHING they say about COV? Why should you accept their case numbers, their ominous warnings, their insistence on lockdowns which wreck economies?It's simple. If a boy shows up at a grocery store the first six days of the week and steals an apple every time, when he shows up on the seventh day, why wouldn't he steal an apple? And if that boy were the de facto president of the United States — enabling him to impose draconian measures on the population — should you trust him?
The first issue is: how many people in the US die every year from the flu?
The CDC reshuffles its estimates. It used to parrot an annual figure of 36,000. Recently,
it claimed 12,000-61,000 deaths per year.
In December of 2005, the
British Medical Journal (online) published a shocking report by Peter Doshi, which created tremors through the halls of the CDC.
Here is a quote from Doshi's report, "Are US flu death figures more PR than science?" (
BMJ 2005; 331:1412):
"[According to CDC statistics], 'influenza and pneumonia' took 62,034 lives in 2001 — 61,777 of which were attributable to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was the flu virus positively identified."
Boom.
You see, the CDC created one overall category that combines both flu and pneumonia deaths. Why do they do this?
Because they disingenuously assume the pneumonia deaths are complications stemming from the flu.
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