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So how does that lack of reporting stop the actual virus from coming in contact with people???
It merely shows how the true death toll was greatly under-reported. Florida, for example, decided that it didn't count as a "real death" if the person who died in a Florida hospital was not a citizen of Florida.

Florida hides data showing how many tourists and snowbirds contract COVID-19 in the state

State health officials refuse to say how many nonresidents have tested positive for COVID-19, including how many of them have died.

So they fell through the cracks. Some states refused to give test kits to coroners, so they couldn't report COVID-19 deaths, being unable to verify the virus.

Mississippi Coroners Can’t Get Coronavirus Test Kits for the Dead

Coroners in four South Mississippi counties say they have tried but failed to acquire COVID-19 test kits from the state.
Mississippi Coroners Can’t Get Coronavirus Test Kits for the Dead

Some of it was just incompetence, and some of it was deliberately done to hold down the death count. The thing is, that kind of inaccuracy turns up in the rise in excess deaths. And so anyone with even a fair understanding of statistics, realized what was going on.
 
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There is no such thing as accurate data collecting saving lives by preventing infections with a report.
And no one said it was. You're arguing with yourself here. The data merely shows that United States COVID-19 deaths were greatly under-reported and the death rate, even without those unreported deaths, was much higher than for nations that took effective action.

I'm surprised you were confused about that.
 
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There is no such thing as accurate data collecting sav lives by preventing infections.
It merely shows how the true death toll was greatly under-reported. Florida, for example, decided that it didn't count as a "real death" if the person who died in a Florida hospital was not a citizen of Florida.

Florida hides data showing how many tourists and snowbirds contract COVID-19 in the state

State health officials refuse to say how many nonresidents have tested positive for COVID-19, including how many of them have died.

So they fell through the cracks. Some states refused to give test kits to coroners, so they couldn't report COVID-19 deaths, being unable to verify the virus.

Mississippi Coroners Can’t Get Coronavirus Test Kits for the Dead

Coroners in four South Mississippi counties say they have tried but failed to acquire COVID-19 test kits from the state.
Mississippi Coroners Can’t Get Coronavirus Test Kits for the Dead

Some of it was just incompetence, and some of it was deliberately done to hold down the death count. The thing is, that kind of inaccuracy turns up in the rise in excess deaths. And so anyone with even a fair understanding of statistics, realized what was going on.
Its the virus that is determining the deaths. Not inaccurate data. Or determining if someone died of covid would somehow prevent someone else from being infected. That's quite a virus crossing the fabric of space and time from an inaccurate report and infected people in real time without even being in contact.
 
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Its the virus that is determining the deaths. Not inaccurate data.
The accurate data just showed that the true death rate was under-reported. That's the thing about excess death data; it uncovers any attempts to hide those deaths, or mere incompetence in missing them. Motive doesn't matter as far as the statistics are concerned.
 
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The accurate data just showed that the true death rate was under-reported. That's the thing about excess death data; it uncovers any attempts to hide those deaths, or mere incompetence in missing them. Motive doesn't matter as far as the statistics are concerned.
Trump is accused of causing the deaths by association.
 
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The accurate data just showed that the true death rate was under-reported. That's the thing about excess death data; it uncovers any attempts to hide those deaths, or mere incompetence in missing them. Motive doesn't matter as far as the statistics are concerned.

Trump is accused of causing the deaths by association.
By inaction, by lying to us about it, and often by doing the wrong things. Would you like some more detail? He didn't completely botch the pandemic, however. He did push for a vaccine to be quickly developed and distributed. We would have lost maybe a million more lives without that.

Credit where credit is due.
 
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No, that story won't fly, either. The cause of death had to be shown to be caused by the virus. But comorbidities did increase the death rate just as it does for influenza, cancer, heart disease, and so on. Do you think doctors don't know this? And no, they are not all lying.


You're confusing your hoaxes here. What you're referring to is the attempt by antivaxxers to show that COVID-19 vaccines were killing people. Here's how the hoax went:

VAERS is a database for reporting adverse reactions to vaccinations (not just COVID vaccinations). Anyone can submit an incident and it's not checked for accuracy. As you might expect, anti-vaxxers flooded the system attributing vaccination adverse effects from car wrecks, lightning strikes, and in one case from becoming the Incredible Hulk. Your facts are right, but the hoax isn't what they told you it is.

The secondary hoax was pretending the vaccine database was about people dying of the virus. I'm sure you're surprised and dismayed to hear this, but those people seem to have no principles at all.
If true it doesn’t surprise me.
 
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Certainly not inaccurate data can cause deaths
I'm glad you finally figured that out. As you probably realize now, the data merely shows the death rate and the under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths. It's was hiding the danger from us, and doing little about it, that caused so many to die.
 
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In 2004, anesthesiologist James Laidler submitted an alarming report to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Laidler wrote that after he got his annual influenza vaccine, his muscles began to grow in size, his skin became green, and he turned into the Incredible Hulk.
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Laidler’s intent was not to notify government officials of a dangerous side effect, but to show the need for caution when interpreting the data found in VAERS, the national vaccine safety surveillance program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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To the CDC’s credit, it followed up with Laidler and asked his permission to remove the report, which he agreed to. “If I had not agreed, the record would be there still, showing that any claim can become part of the database, no matter how outrageous or improbable,” he wrote at the time.


Turns out, Laidler was actually parodying the anti-vaxxers, to make a point.
 
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The accurate data just showed that the true death rate was under-reported. That's the thing about excess death data; it uncovers any attempts to hide those deaths, or mere incompetence in missing them. Motive doesn't matter as far as the statistics are concerned.


By inaction, by lying to us about it, and often by doing the wrong things. Would you like some more detail? He didn't completely botch the pandemic, however. He did push for a vaccine to be quickly developed and distributed. We would have lost maybe a million more lives without that.

Credit where credit is due.
He pushed for a vaccine an action done right.

So what other actions could he had done to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 which even a n-95 mask won't stop it. maybe mandatory mask goggles rubber gloves in public would of been a good measure lol.
 
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I'm glad you finally figured that out. As you probably realize now, the data merely shows the death rate and the under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths. It's was hiding the danger from us, and doing little about it, that caused so many to die.
So why do they accuse him of literally causing deaths?

It's like accusing someone of knowing who a killer is then saying the someone is the killer
 
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So what other actions could he had done to reduce the spread of the Covid-19
Cancelling large groups of people coming together, for example. These "super-spreader" events rapidly spread the virus to vulnerable people. Just telling people the truth about the danger would have saved lives. Instead Trump claimed that it was "under control" ,would disappear "like a miracle" and tried to keep essential supplies away from cities and states whose officials annoyed him.

Would you like me to show you these things?
 
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So why do they accuse him of literally causing deaths?
Because he didn't take action in time, lied to us about how serious it was, and claimed it was just like the flu and would disappear "like a miracle." Fortunately, most people didn't take his suggestion that it might be good to inject ourselves with disinfectant. However, many people believed his lies about the risks and died as a result.
 
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Cancelling large groups of people coming together, for example. These "super-spreader" events rapidly spread the virus to vulnerable people. Just telling people the truth about the danger would have saved lives. Instead Trump claimed that it was "under control" ,would disappear "like a miracle" and tried to keep essential supplies away from cities and states whose officials annoyed him.

Would you like me to show you these things?
Whats the differents now, the virus is everywhere among all humans there was no where to hide from it then or now. Within weeks of its appearance it was already to late for containment.
 
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