Well I am in a super red area of a blue state so we suspect (confirmation bias of course) we may have gotten more hot batches because my anecdotal evidence is similar to everyone I talk to in my community. The liberal types try to spin it but it seems they know something is not right. The people who died varied from young and supposedly healthy enough to older and the obits said something to the effect that they "died unexpectedly" and that "cause could not be identified" in almost every case. Enough that "suspicious" puts our feelings mildly.

But this disagreement between us is a part of our trying to understand the woo we find ourselves in, so I appreciate you sharing your anecdotal evidence because we are able to glean info from us doing so. I have been trained in the scientific method enough in grade school and in college so I used to trust empirical data ultimately and blindly but I have awakened to how much these types of data can be cooked if not completely fabricated in the public sphere where it really matters, thus I know I can only trust the empirical data I have collected on a case that I could never have a bias in regards to. While I have seen enough empirical evidence that either confirms my thoughts or suspiciously contradicts in untrustworthy ways, you may have not, and neither of our views really matter because what is coming is already here and no matter what we will look back on it and be surprised about what we got right and what we got wrong.