There's a reason you can't do this analysis this way. Obesity is a comorbidity. If you get COVID and end up dead, it's the COVID pneumonia that did it, not the fact you're fat. Similarly, we can think about a lot of these conditions. We manage people on Type 2 Diabetes literally for decades.
You can't just say all of those deaths were caused by the comorbidity, which is what you're claiming when you do this sort of math. It's wrong.
That's why the attending physician is supposed to document the cause of death accurately on the death certificate. The CDC interfered with that. The numbers are inflated. We know that. But they are not 20x inflated as you're suggesting.
What you're trying to do is find some point of accuracy when the CDC deliberately changed its data collection processes to make accuracy impossible.
There's a reason you can't do this analysis this way. Obesity is a comorbidity. If you get COVID and end up dead, it's the COVID pneumonia that did it, not the fact you're fat. Similarly, we can think about a lot of these conditions. We manage people on Type 2 Diabetes literally for decades.
You can't just say all of those deaths were caused by the comorbidity, which is what you're claiming when you do this sort of math. It's wrong.
That's why the attending physician is supposed to document the cause of death accurately on the death certificate. The CDC interfered with that. The numbers are inflated. We know that. But they are not 20x inflated as you're suggesting.
What you're trying to do is find some point of accuracy when the CDC deliberately changed its data collection processes to make accuracy impossible.