I noticed that, too. If you were to take a very large random sample of the population (or do some bogus test to generate random results), some of those people will die in any given time period. Since the deaths would basically be a random subset of all deaths, you would expect the age profile and "comorbidities" (aka "actual cause of death") to closely resemble those for all deaths. Which is exactly what we see with covid.
Which is why I strongly suspect that the huge numbers of covid deaths are actually people who were dying anyway and got labeled as covid even though that had nothing to do with it. I can't rule out a small core of people actually getting and dying from a real disease, but I guess they are a very small minority.
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branchandroot
Re: PCR test explanation
Date: 2021-09-09 05:38 am (UTC)Which is why I strongly suspect that the huge numbers of covid deaths are actually people who were dying anyway and got labeled as covid even though that had nothing to do with it. I can't rule out a small core of people actually getting and dying from a real disease, but I guess they are a very small minority.