re: CDC just admitted 75% of counted Covid deaths weren’t caused by covid

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Posters who believe in the status quo are more likely to think “There’s no way that’s happening. That would be stupid! The people in charge aren’t stupid. Ergo, it’s not happening.”

But they’re that stupid.

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You're right. And sometimes those that believe in the status quo are really smart, but ignorant.

I have a brother. Brilliant guy. PhD in Medical Physics. Does research at a teaching hospital. Prominent on a global basis in certain imaging technology. Truly, truly brilliant. About 10 months ago in our family text thread he and I got into it about "Covid stats" - he went to great lengths explaining that the medical industry was different than other industries in that they really are super duper honest, aren't moved by politics whatsoever, and 100% about science ... and where Covid is concerned, my argument that a lot of people on the Covid scoreboard did not die because they contracted the virus was ludicrous because COD is "sacred" to the doctors and MEs that make those determinations, blah, blah, blah. I simply told him to google "death certificate matching program" and to specifically find who is, in fact, making the determinations on "Covid deaths" - and he came back to the thread in disbelief. I wouldn't say he was a convert at that point, but it was the first time he opened his mind up to the possibility that while Covid was a real virus that could do real harm, the hysteria and lockdowns/mandates surrounding it were far more about politics and economics than anybody's health.