The very same people who were saying we’d have over 2 million fatalities if nothing was done are now claiming Trump failed miserably because the virus’s official death tally is around 15o,000.

But we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that number represents a flagrant lie which vastly overstates the real one.

And we need to learn by exactly how much.

What we care about is how many people would still be alive if not for contracting the virus.

What we’re getting is something else entirely. //

The question isn’t whether COVID-19’s fatality numbers are inflated. It’s by how much.