Glad to acknowledge the doctors’ reports of chaos and overwhelm in many hospitals around the world, P. As you know, I take dan-at-TLN’s personal testimony as a gold standard. It was clearly a bad time in London then. You’re quite right about confirmation bias (who doesn’t suffer from it?) and the list of instances which you give actually underlines mine. Agreed. More caution needed! 
The question continues to stand, though: what were all those people ill with? ALL the with the covid pathogen? Do we know? Zach Bush’s account of how this all really works seems to me, as I said, to be one of the best that I’ve seen yet. And that doesn’t square at all with the geopolitically-handy meme of a dreadful global killer plague. He, btw, remains neutral about what’s really going on politically, sticking just to what he sees as the mechanisms at work epidemiologically; outstandingly enlightening. There’s also this question of the widely-bandied IFR of about 0.04. Is it true? I don’t know, but if it is, where’s the mass-death-creator there? And then there’s the dogs-breakfast of the PCR…
There’s another problem, though, on which I suspect we may not disagree: There’s been a huge, sustained propaganda campaign around this alleged pandemic. Only the obdurately, wilfully blind can fail to see that. All dolled up as ‘entirely-appropriate public concern over a really big danger’ of course. Yet unmistakably to my eye, an arrant racket. Lots of ‘influencers’ have been spreading obviously iffy narratives, which I suspect a lot of them have been hypnotised - quite literally! - into believing, by the self-evident trance-induction and NLP techniques which have been - and continue to be - poured over us this past year and a half: an obvious mass-hypnosis campaign. Seeing this, you just can’t help concluding that something deeply criminal, and deeply deceptive, is going on. Why? What’s it for? Are the PTsB really all that concerned for our welfare, that they’re hypnotising us for our own good? SPI-B is populated entirely by angels! Yeah, right…
I should just underline that susceptibility to this sort of perception-manipulation is quite independent of intelligence or degree of information known. It just depends where fate has placed one on the suggestibility-curve. Almost everyone - though not quite all - is susceptible to some degree; about ten percent of us markedly so. (I speak as one who’s used hypnotic induction techniques on people for various healing purposes. I’ve actually watched it’s remarkable power. Every stage-hypnosis entertainment act relies crucially on this reality.)
This background reality being so, as I affirm strongly that it is, I suggest that nothing we’re being told about the ‘pandemic’ can be trusted. Taking Zach B’s slant on board, we can acknowledge that something very bad was happening in London, NYC, Lombardia, and elsewhere (and yes, I remember Pierre Kory’s testimony of a flood of treatable cases which he fielded; entirely convincing to me) but what exactly was it that hit them all? I suggest that we have a good while to wait before all that comes out in the wash over the next few years, as lots of people continue delving into it.
Meanwhile, there are a few ad-hoc rules on which we can stake our lives (as I have twice now, already*) with enough confidence: That there’s a huge mass-hypnosis swindle going on; that the IFR of the illness is piddling; and that we just can’t put too much weight on any ‘facts’ currently available, in this time of weltering deceit, until they’ve been thoroughly scrutinised, a process which has barely begun yet, and which will take years. We’re going to have to do a lot of revising of judgement in that time. Me too, natch.
I have to acknowledge that there’s much food for (confirmation-bias restraining) thought in your post, P. Must try harder to get a true balance…! Thanks for your patient, restrained persistence. Such courteous restraint in dealing with hot-heads is admirable. And commiserations with the obviously scarifying distress you’ve experienced in watching bad things happening amongst your circle of acquaintance. I haven’t had to cope with anything like that. Cheers, bro.
*As well as what I take to be an initial bout with the covid pathogen (whatever it is) in the late Spring of last year, a few days ago something odd swept through the little knot of boat-dwellers where I live, and I had a very brief experience of it, extremely mild, but just about perceptible. In both instances, the symptoms - such as they were - were the classic early-warning ones which try it on with me every Winter flu season, and which vanish under the persuasion of mega-dose C, reliably, as they have for over quarter of a century now for me.
We here reckon that a work-mate of one of my neighbours, who has already had two doses of the poison-stabs, was sick to the point of being off work with - well, something fluey; in July, FFS! - whereby my neighbour got it from him, brought it back, and it passed through us all within about a week, after which it was gone. Flying completely blind, as I am, I took this to be the covid pathogen; once again demonstrating what a piece of piss it is to off it without rushing to the GP or to hospital. Something markedly less than even a mild cold, in fact, for all of us sturdy peasants. I’m guessing that we’re all already primed with natural complete immunity, since last year, and that’s why none of us has had anything more than mild and transient symptoms. This includes a neighbour in late middle age, who has chronic COPD, but who also follows my approach of hitting respiratory illnesses with big-dose C; and we’re all taking plenty of D too, and getting out bare-armed into the sunshine. None of us has had any bother, and all are now recovered.
Anecdotal, I know. But just now, in this time of universal deceit and corruption, directly-experienced anecdotals are about the most reliable truths we can find, I think.
. But I feel it might help to narrow the focus of your disagreement with Rhis if this issue were recognized.