How can we trust any of the coronavirus death numbers being reported by the government when there are stories like this?
As the United States struggles to track coronavirus fatalities amid spotty testing, delayed lab results and inconsistent reporting standards, a more insidious problem could thwart the country’s quest for an accurate death toll.
Up to 1 in 3 death certificates nationwide were wrong before COVID-19, Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics, said in an interview with the USA TODAY Network.
“I’m always worried about getting good data. I think this sort of thing can be an issue even in a pandemic,” Anderson said.
Experts said the inaccuracies are part and parcel of a patchwork, state-by-state system of medical examiners, coroners and doctors who have disparate medical backgrounds, and in some cases none at all.
The problem is likely to get worse as the pandemic inundates overworked and sometimes untrained officials who fill out the forms.
The government is simply not competent. This is the result of affirmative action policies that have allowed women, racial minorities and other unqualified individuals to fill important positions within the bureaucracy. As a result of this, the system has become totally dysfunctional.
I mean, how hard is it to fill out a form stating what somebody died from? This is a simple task and not one that would result in 1/3rd of deaths being misidentified. But leave it to the government to fuck up something so simple.
So based on this, there is no reason to trust the official coronavirus death numbers that we are getting. We already know that top level people have pushed policies to inflate the death numbers and when you combine it with this type of gross incompetence, you’d be foolish to believe that we are getting accurate numbers.
