The spikes in infections (since the book the graph was taken from was written) is due to a spike in testing. There's no spike in deaths in general, and any spike in deaths recorded as deaths from covid-19, is misrepresentative. It's hard for me to explain. Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife explain in their book "Corona, False Alarm?".
Yes I realize you've read a book. You've posted about it a dozen or so times. The graph is supposed to compare countries with lockdown against countries without and doesn't mention a "spike in testing."
Now saying that there has been a spike in testing and that this is the reason for a spike in infections, that could mean two things.
One is that the infection was already widespread but we didn't know because we weren't testing for it. Or it could mean that the infection rate is rising along with the rate of people being tested. Either way the testing does not cause the infection so that's just another half-baked idea that appeals to people that don't want to take simple precautions and would rather believe what they want to while completely ignoring the evidence.
It's really not very hard to explain at all.
Three months ago there were no confirmed Covid 19 deaths at my local hospital but now there are twenty-two. Does that mean that people died from it before but it was attributed to something else? Or does it mean that the rate of deaths is rising?
Of course you could think that means that they're attributing deaths to Covid that are really from some other reason. But if that's true why did they just start doing it? If it's a worldwide conspiracy to make us all slaves to the lizard people from Alpha Centauri or, as reelfountain calls them, "the Jews" don't you think they would have sent the memo earlier?
Testing is available, rates of infection and rates of death seem to be rising. Suddenly every yahoo that has a Facebook account is an expert and anyone that reads a misleading book is practically the Surgeon General.
Generally with conspiracies I try to keep an open mind. Whether it's JFK, 9/11, Princess Di, or the pandemic I'm open to the possibilities that we don't know all the facts, but one thing I do know is that when some random person claims to have all the facts about exactly how it went down they're always unreliable, prone to confirmation bias, and more interested in getting others to agree with them than in actually finding the facts.
but I haven't seen any reason you think I'm wrong.
