If you got 6, that is not the correct answer. 2 + 3 = 5.
I asked you to use logic. If you got 6 as your answer, you assumed illogical nonsense to be true, and came to a conclusion that isn't true based on the illogical nonsense that was purposely designed to get you to come to that specific conclusion that is not logical.
This is what the media has done to us all for a whole year by reporting daily COVID cases and deaths without any other context. NO demographics information in the media on ages, the fact most people dying were already very sick, no daily deaths counts from heart disease or car accidents or overdoses to compare. In Canada for example, no mention in the media of the fact that comparable to COVID, MEDICAL ERRORS - mistakes made by doctors, nurses and pharmacists - kill an estimated 28K people per year. No reporting on the fact kids are in NO danger from COVID. Neither are most of their parents. Unless you consider getting in a car to be a great danger. People under 60 in Canada are almost 5x more likely to die in a car accident than from COVID. All this reporting was designed to make us all come to the conclusion that COVID is a big scary monster.
The fact places that did not lock down and mandate masks almost all have even lower or similar deaths vs confirmed cases to places that locked down strictly and had mask mandates, proves the restrictions were largely useless, and possibly caused more illness, and definitely caused MUCH more collateral damage to people's lives.
When people can go to work and school, they leave one building and go to another for a significant portion of the day. While people are at work and school, air in their homes is circulating less, letting airborne viruses settle on surfaces. Surfaces that the virus usually won't survive on all that long. To spread that way, those surfaces then need to be touched, and then find their way into an orifice for a person to pick up any virus, as opposed to simply being breathed in. There are also no new viruses being added to the home environment when people are out of their homes.
Then when people come home from working in a standard office, the same thing happens in the office. Air circulates less with less people moving around. Airborne viruses settle. No new viruses being added. Surfaces that get touched often, can be disinfected much more easily than if viruses are floating in the air. The MAIN sources of outbreaks outside of long term care homes, have been places that operate 24/7. Food processing plants, mail sorting facilities, Amazon warehouses etc... Wonder why?
Now consider staying home. One person brings COVID in. Now? Everyone in the household is more likely to get it. People don't leave the house. There's more airborne virus. More virus on surfaces. More constant close contact, hugs, meals, sitting on the couch together, with people you live with than the more professional relationships people have at the office. Constant new virus being added to the home. Which, all taken together, would be likely to lead to a higher initial viral load, which is supposedly connected to increased severity of symptoms.
So now these people, with higher viral loads than they would have if they'd been going to school and work, are more likely to get more sick, and be more contagious to everyone else. Their grandparents, for example..
Now consider we have cases worldwide dropping 70% all of a sudden. Just a couple of months ago, "experts" were predicting these supposedly WAY more contagious variants would be causing 10x more cases by now, not 70% less cases. They were completely wrong. The opposite of that happened. But what did happen?
Manufacturers of PCR tests, did update their guidelines to specify that cycle counts above a certain number can produce unreliable results. The WHO also specified that positive results from PCR tests run at high cycle counts, should be verified with a second testing method before being diagnosed as COVID.
Quick side note - the way a PCR test works is somewhat like a Google Deep Dream filter. If you are looking for a dog in a picture, and there is a dog in the sample picture, the filter will show the dog is there pretty consistently unless you run it over and over and over. Then the dog might appear to turn into a bus with a nose, and you get a false negative. There IS a dog in the picture, not a bus with a nose. As long as you don't run it too many times though, the dog is clearly there.
But - if there is NO dog in the picture, and you run the filter over and over and over, eventually, you'll find something that looks like a dog. That's a false positive.
SO - if the PCR tests are the cause of the sudden "unexplainable" simultaneous worldwide drop in cases, that means - ALL ALONG -cases were overexaggerated.
Now here's the craziest part - all around the world, the WHO had member countries change 4 key things - the first being the way they recommended COVID be diagnosed - with an RT-PCR test. Second - compared to other diseases, COVID could also be diagnosed just by environmental exposure. Meaning, not by a PCR test, just by being in proximity to someone who had a positive PCR test. Third - how they diagnosed COVID deaths. People could have COVID listed as their cause of death if they had been suspected of environmental exposure in the few weeks before their death. Even if they didn't necessarily display symptoms. And fourth - how they handled dead bodies of people suspected of having died of COVID. They didn't perform autopsies on them, and any death marked COVID was to be considered a death from natural causes, and not subject to review by coroners.
So - say in a long term care home, one person tests positive on a PCR test. But, it's a false positive. Now - anyone who came into contact with that person who died within a few weeks, could be a "suspected" COVID death. BUT - remember, the WHO also sent directives to countries all around the world NOT to conduct autopsies on people who were suspected of having died of COVID. So, if those people actually died of something else, no one would ever know. So, one false positive test, could potentially lead to many more people being falsely listed as COVID deaths. And, no one would ever know.
When you throw in the fact the CARES act in the USA paid hospitals 20% more for care provided to Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID? There's monetary incentive to diagnose COVID, and little chance of being caught misdiagnosing it, since? No autopsies, natural cause, not subject to coroners review...
But now? Coroners ARE starting to review COVID deaths. I suspect this will occur all around the world within the next months. In Quebec, some COVID deaths were found to have actually been due to - dehydration.
Imagine this scenario. You're a 28 year old nurse with 2 young kids, last April. You see piles of coffins in the streets in Italy on the news. You have 4-6-8 patients 90+ on your rounds with numerous health issues including Alzheimers, who are barely conscious or responsive on the best days. Some get diagnosed with COVID. Your government run long term care facility doesn't even have adequate PPE for you to safely take care of them without putting yourself, and by extension, your frontline healthcare co-workers - and your family - at risk. Admin at your facility agrees. It's not worth risking their badly needed specially trained healthcare employees to save people who even before COVID, were likely to die very soon and had no independence or quality of life. No family visits. So, they're left to dehydrate. And - listed as COVID deaths. No autopsies, no coroners review.
Stats Canada showed excess deaths early in the pandemic, but by the summer there was no longer a statistical anomaly indicating any excess deaths for the year. So, that indicates those people who died early in the pandemic, were likely to have died anyway in the next few weeks or months.
But, all we knew was case counts. And death counts. And we didn't know PCR tests might be wildly inaccurate. And we didn't know how the diagnostic process for COVID was different than how any other disease was ever handled, which could lead to people who didn't die of COVID being listed as COVID deaths. And we didn't know autopsies were not being performed. Only doctors who were "conspiracy theorists" were talking about any of that. And they were getting kicked off Youtube, Twitter and Facebook for it. And still are.
Meanwhile, everyone got tricked into thinking 2 + 2 = 5 and 3 + 3 = 7 so, 2 + 3 must equal 6. And we almost all fought with each other in some ways about it. Ruining lifelong relationships with friends and family over the answer, instead of stopping to examine if any of it was logical. And governments have taken away basic rights like the right to earn a living, travel, see friends and family, even to go about our daily business without covering our faces, from millions and millions of people worldwide, for a whole year.