Thread by @JewhadiTM

A Covid Death? The Bureaucracy Decides americanmind.org/salvo/a-covid-…

The average natural cause of death reporting on death certificates, and the mortality statistics extrapolated from them, are not the product of careful investigation.

In fact, natural cause of death reports are known to have a 20% to 60% inaccuracy rate according to the peer-reviewed literature. They are, by definition, medical opinions, not facts—an uncomfortable truth when you observe a world enslaved by daily COVID mortality tallies.

The nature of cause-of-death data capture belies the reliability of mortality statistics as structurally sound. Mortality statistics tabulated from death certificates should not steer public health recommendations or medical decisions.

Using them as a metric for scientific research or public policy is about as prudent as building a skyscraper on a sandbox.

Previously, the pre-existing condition that made a patient susceptible to death from an infection (i.e., quadriplegia, stroke (cerebrovascular accident), HIV or cystic fibrosis) was subsequently tallied in our mortality statistics as the reason for the death.

But the new COVID-19 guidance advises the exact opposite: medical certifiers are now to report the infection as the UCOD and tally it in our mortality statistics.

Simultaneously, the underlying chronic condition is demoted into a section of the death certificate that doesn’t impact mortality statistics and holds less sway in science, medicine, public health and law.

Reporting death in this way foregrounds short term COVID illness as the cause of death, instead of reporting the underlying chronic illness as we have done in the past. This is another way how COVID mortality is being artificially amplified over any other cause of death.

Finally, yet another biased standard of boosting COVID mortality specific to this year’s very odd death tallying was PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 performed after death, including on people whose cause of death was suicide or car accidents and obviously not COVID-related at all.