My country's data, my state's data, and my county's data for total weekly deaths in Jan 2017 were never matched or exceeded by 2020 or 2021.

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total weekly deaths in WA from the CDC.

Those who argue with me point out that thing were worse in Jersey and NYC.
My contention is that if persons with the flu were put in a nursing home wards in 2017 we could have beat NYC and Jersey.

Those that argue with me point out that we had a lockdown that prevented a real pandemic.
I cannot prove that wrong. But they cannot prove that right.

I would point out the lockdown for 2 weeks was to prevent hospital overflow. That never happened in 2020 or 2021. Bait and switch.

When my 90 year old father went to the hospital with pneumonia in Jan 2012, we were told the hospital was full of old people with pneumonia. He died a week later in that hospital.

How to make a hoax:
Make something ordinary seem special
Make something imaginary seem real

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps