Are cases and deaths being over-counted?
April 27, 2020 in Columnists, News, RBN Updates by RBN Staff


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In the winter of 2017-2018, the U.S. seasonal flu death toll from the H3N2 virus was about 80,000, yet there was no lockdown at that time.

EVER SINCE THE CORONAVIRUS (Covid-19, or CV-19] first reportedly hatched in China, up to the present time, important information has either been left out of newspaper and TV reports, or it has only been reported on rare occasion. A prime example is the high number of CV-19 recoveries.
Most of the newspaper and TV reports focus on “cases” and “deaths,” without explaining that the vast majority of people who come in contact with the virus either experience minor to moderate symptoms, or they don’t get sick at all.
For example, according to the detailed website www.worldometers.info/coronavirus, which contains a broad spectrum of information that your evening news usually ignores, there were just over 1.5 million “currently infected” patients on a worldwide basis as of April 17, 2020.
But get this: Of those who were listed as infected worldwide, 1,467,648 (96%) were listed in mild condition and 56,960 (4%) were reported to be in “serious or critical” condition. That’s a large contrast. Furthermore, according to that same April 17 report, there were 725,824 closed Covid-19 cases (worldwide cases which had an outcome). Of those 571,577, or 79%, fully recovered and were discharged; while 154,271, or 21%, died.
 
BUT WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY DIE OF?
Even according to the CDC itself, from Feb. 1 through April 7, within the U.S. as a whole, there were 2,214 deaths attributed to CV-19 but 476,602 deaths from all causes so far in 2020. That’s just 0.5% of deaths from CV-19—again, assuming that the CV deaths the media tells us about were actually directly caused by the coronavirus.
Granted, things seemingly got worse in the U.S. by around April 16, when there supposedly were 11,356 deaths attributed to CV-19. But by that time, there were 569,403 total U.S. deaths.
That may sound like a big jump in CV-19 deaths, from 0.5% of total deaths to 2%. But keep in mind that the proof that all CV-19 reported deaths were actually caused by the coronavirus is severely lacking since deaths caused by other medical conditions are often reported as CV-19 deaths. That can be very deceptive.
But things get much clearer when you consider an especially interesting item issued by the National Vital Statistics System, or NVSS (a division of the CDC which is a federally supported local, state and national system of sharing data). Back on March 24, 2020, the NVSS announced a new ICD Code for CV-19 deaths. Starting with a question and then answering it, the NVSS, word for word, issued the following statement:
“Should COVID-19 be reported on the death certificate only with a confirmed test? COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death.”
You might be interested to know that the underlined words in that statement were made by the NVSS, not by the composers of this Citizen Reporter pamphlet. That means CV-19 confirmations are not required for listing a death as being caused by CV-19.
So, whatever the government, the TV news and the newspapers report at any given time as the “official” coronavirus death count may be exaggerated to a significant degree.
The Scientific Advisor to Italy’s Health Ministry stated: “The way that we code deaths in our country is very generous . . . all the people who die in hospitals WITH the coronavirus are deemed to be dying OF the coronavirus.” (Capital letters added by Citizen Reporter).
Bernhard Benka, a member of Austria’s Corona Task Force, confirmed that patients dying there both WITH and FROM the coronavirus were counted as CV-19 deaths. And in Spain, a 21-year-old male’s death was marked s CV-19 despite suffering from Leukemia.
If a patient is suffering from the complications of a serious long-term illness and would probably pass away anyway, does the mere newfound presence of the coronavirus somewhere in that person’s system (perhaps in their nasal cavity) mean that he or she died as a direct result of CV-19? And what if the testing is inaccurate in the first place?
The average age of the deceased related somehow to CV-19 is about 80 years, typically someone who had one or more serious illnesses or conditions (such as breathing problems from smoking, or from the elderly being exposed to significant pollution in the air, such as in Northern Italy’s industrial sector).
• Meanwhile, medical malpractices in the U.S. alone cause about 250,000 deaths per year.
• Furthermore, even bacterial infections from hospital stays, such as staph infections, cause just shy of 100,000 deaths per year in the U.S. alone, causing a $45 billion yearly economic burden.
• And the seasonal flu typically claims upwards of 60,000 deaths a year in the U.S. alone, easily rivaling CV-19’s alleged death toll. In the winter of 2017-2018, the U.S. seasonal flu death toll from the H3N2 virus was about 80,000, yet there was no lockdown at that time. There are lots of questions that need answers. Thus, we all need to step back and put things in perspective.
 
MISLEADING NEWSPAPER REPORTS
In Hidalgo County in south Texas, when the first two county CV-19 deaths were reported on separate days by the McAllen Monitor, the newspaper noted on April 16:
“Hidalgo County announced Wednesday evening that a second resident has died after testing positive for Covid-19.” The words “after testing positive for Covid-19” are inconclusive.
The same Monitor article then added, “According to a release from Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez, the man was a 66-year-old with underlying medical conditions.”
Furthermore, the Monitor and apparently all other mainstream media fail to ask whether the 66-yearold man died as a direct result OF the coronavirus, since he very well could have died WITH the virus simply being present—assuming the test was accurate.
As we’ve seen, the CV-19 situation shows that you cannot take anything for granted. The following item really drives that point home, since it involves the test used most widely to determine those CV-19 “cases” that we hear about nonstop on TV.
 
ABOUT THE PCR TEST
The main test being used for CV-19, which was selected by the WHO. is the PCR (Polymerise Chain Reaction). It detects RNA—the genetic information of the virus. It was invented by Dr Kary Mullis to detect HIV (AIDS). While he won a Nobel Prize for it, he says the PCR has serous limitations. Read carefully what he said about the PCR with regards to HIV, which also applies to CV-19. Dr. Mullis stated:
“Quantitative PCR is an oxymoron. PCR is intended to identify substances qualitatively, but by its very nature is unsuited for estimating numbers. Although there is a common misimpression that the viral-load tests actually count the number of viruses in the blood, these tests cannot detect free, infectious viruses at all; they can only detect proteins that are believed, in some cases wrongly, to be unique to HIV. The tests can detect genetic sequences of viruses, but not viruses themselves.” (emphasis added) In other words, the PCR can only detect proteins that are assumed to be unique to CV19.
Moreover, a CV-19 diagnosis does not even require symptoms. And when you compare the CV-19 illness with the seasonal flu (BOTH ARE CAUSED BY DIFFERENT STRAINS OF THE CORONAVIRUS) the typical symptoms that some may experience are essentially the same. And while the PCR test is not used in every affected country for CV-19, it is the most common test. Yet the PCR test cannot isolate a specific coronavirus strain, nor can it determine the viral load. And it returns many false positives.
 
ARE STRICT LOCKDOWNS REALLY HELPING?
A look at recent data from the www.Worldometers.info website shows that countries with minimal or no lockdowns generally had lower percentages of deaths in relation to their number of cases.
For example, six countries that have enforced some of the strictest lockdowns (France, Italy, the UK, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands) averaged 11.85% deaths per number of cases. The highest of the six was Belgium at 13.4%. Those six European nations also showed the highest number of cases as a percentage of the population.
Compare that with nations that had little or no lockdowns, The highest number you’ll likely find among the more easygoing countries is Sweden at around 9% of deaths per cases. And those nations with looser rules also had lower numbers of cases as a percentage of the overaall population.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Focusing on such percentages is the most accurate approach, since most of the strict countries have larger populations)
 
EMPTY HOSPITALS, SUFFERING SENIORS
Unemployed citizens with time on their hands have visited hopsitals in Queens and Brooklyn, New York (simply to verify media claims that N.Y. hospitals were among the nation’s busiest, due to being overwhelmed with people either sick with CV-19 or wanting to get tested). But those hospitals were found to be virtually deserted with minimal staffs. Indeed, hospitals from New York, to Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Texas, California and elsewhere HAVE NOT been found to be overwhelmed with CV-19 patients.
But the staffing shortages which have arisen at nursing homes (some nursing staffers have been asked to stay home if they have the sniffles or a slight fever) have led to some elderly people being neglected and needlessly dying. Meanwhile, cancer and heart patients in the U.S. have been forced to delay treatments. Indiana’s mental health and ѕυιcιdє hotline went from receiving roughly 1,000 calls a day before CV-19 to about 25,000 calls a day during the lockdown. Indiana’s addiction hotlines went from 20 calls per week to 20 per day.
The Citizen Reporter is a collaborative citizens project across the U.S. We feel that this more complete data raises questions about proposals for mandatory vaccines and forcing the people into a suffocating world of constant travel restrictions and the nonstop monitoring of the activities and personal information of individuals. Plus, prolonged isolation without sufficient sunlight and proper exercise is well known to cause depression, weaken the immune system and make people MORE PRONE to illnesses.
 Meanwhile. vested interests stand to make billions in profits from vaccine development.
According to the National Health Federation (www.theNHF.com) when the աօʀʟd ɦɛaʟtɦ օʀɢaռiʐatɨօռ in February 2020 first declared CV-19 to be a pandemic, the WHO claimed the CV-19 death rate was 3.4%, while the seasonal flu’s rate was 0.1%. The media ran with those numbers. But the WHO applied two different formulas for the two viruses. For CV-19, the WHO did not count any of the mild CV-19 cases that resolved themselves. Yet they DID count resolved cases with the seasonal flu. Isn’t that a form of fraud?
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