Correct. There’s really only 2 choices at this point. Either Q is real and white hat and the operation is a go and that would mean McCain is dead.

I’m even open to the possibility that this whole Q thing is reverse psych move and there are no white hats coming (much akin to the bolshevik’s operation trust that they ran so people thought someone was coming to save them so they were complacent). If that is the case then maybe McCain was just an actor playing his part and is still alive somewhere.

The only thing I know for sure is that he didn’t die of cancer.