Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Getting The Numbers Right 712,936 Americans have NOT died from COVID-19 at this point, and it's important that this lie be shouted down wherever it is trotted out.  "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." -Edmund Burke LAST FEBRUARY, a very compelling illustration of an accurate comparison between the fatality totals of the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak and the nominal total of COVID-19 (C19) deaths at the time (that is, the spun number typically presented by the MSM, US government officials, and anyone else whose agenda is served by the maintenance of a state of panic among the American people and others) was shared with me by the excellent Todd Tanis. I was pleased to post Todd's images in an April edition of this newsletter. In that newsletter post I added an updated graphic. Mine shows the actual number of global C19 fatalities when taking into account the US CDC's admissions regarding its gimmicked reporting methods-- a ploy shared by many governments throughout the world, and confirmed by the excellent research and analysis of Dr. Genevieve Briand of Johns Hopkins. Under that gimmicked regime, people who die of existing fatal conditions (at most complicated by C19 in exactly the same fashion and to no greater a degree than would be true of an infection with the common cold or any other respiratory-compromising virus) are lumped in with those who can be said to have actually died from the C19 infection itself. Excluding those mere "with COVID" deaths and counting only the "from COVID" deaths yields a dramatically different picture: Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/166.htm#1