[_djo_]

That statement immediately exposes you as a crank.

Millions of excess deaths happened, deaths that would not have happened without COVID infections. I had otherwise perfectly healthy friends and family either die or be stuck with long term conditions from it.

There’s value in debating the best measures taken to handle the pandemic, there’s none whatsoever in denying it was even a thing.

[peteradio]

No, its important to be accurate about what numbers are representing. OP is misquoting an important statistic and for whatever reason you see fit to back that up with no cited sources and unverifiable anecdotes. My anecdote is that Covid did not kill anyone I know.

[_djo_]

Nope. There’s nothing new in the way COVID deaths are reported, and in fact making the distinction you’re demanding is what would be the break from standard practice. Death certificates have for decades had contributory causes listed with the main one being the most proximate cause.

For instance if someone has severe hypertension and then has a heart attack both are usually listed but the heart attack is the cause of death.

I don’t see any need to debunk it further because the claim is patent nonsense and I’m surprised to see anyone still repeating it after all this time.

[peteradio]

It should then be easy for you to cite a source for "Over one million Americans are dead of Covid"

[_djo_]

Sure. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/u-s-officially-...

[peteradio]

Not sure how to respond, those are deaths w/ covid, which depends entirely on the jurisdiction from where they are counted. PCR test within 60 days of death, good enough to call it a covid death.

[_djo_]

You can't seriously still be going down this line of argument.

There are at least a million Americans, and many more globally, who are dead when they otherwise would not have been. Denying this is insanity.

[ohiovr]

The leading cause of death in Canada is unknown.