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Steve Kirsch's avatar

I added the Epoch Times article on the FDA withhold autopsy data to the article.

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Thank you for getting this whistleblowers testimony. We all have an idea things like this are happening, but the testimonies are an essential part of proving the case.

I believe the single greatest mistake the Donald Trump/Pence made with COVID-19 was having Medicare cover all cases of COVID-19 so individuals without health insurance could also get treatment for COVID-19. On the surface this seems like a wonderful idea, but it was extremely naïve because it failed to recognize that this would incentivize massive over diagnosis of COVID-19 by the hospital systems (this was especially true in the early days of the pandemic where COVID-19 testing was not available and individuals were diagnosed and put on ventilators purely on the basis of their symptoms; many of my friends in New York witnessed this). In general, when you study the history of government financial incentives, they typically are counterproductive to the original mission of the incentive as they simply encourage dishonest money grabbing to get the funds rather than proactively addressing the problem. How much money was tied to the Covid death rates, that unsurprisingly, a spike deaths be reclassified to COVID-19 was exactly what was seen. This is why I believe a model like the one you proposed previously where areas were paid on the basis of lowering the COVID-19 death rate is the only way a financial incentive could've positively affected the direction of the pandemic.

(for those interested in who made the decisions that allowed COVID-19 to spiral out of control I went into more detail here: https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/who-was-responsible-for-the-botched )

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