Stop the presses, another conspiracy theory has been proven true!

On Monday, The New York Times finally admitted coronavirus were overcounted by 30 percent. Unfortunately, The Times still makes an effort at a non-denial denial trying to make excuses for the way the coronavirus deaths were counted:

Excess deaths, as this number is known, has been an important measure of Covid’s true toll because it does not depend on the murky attribution of deaths to a specific cause. Even if Covid is being underdiagnosed, the excess-deaths statistic can capture its effects. The statistic also captures Covid’s indirect effects, like the surge of vehicle crashes, gun deaths and deaths from missed medical treatments during the pandemic.

Then buried way down in the article, the Gray Lady admits what the Right has been saying all along and The Times condemned as a conspiracy theory, that COVID-19 deaths were exaggerated:

The official number is probably an exaggeration because it includes some people who had virus when they died even though it was not the underlying cause of death. Other C.D.C. data suggests that almost one-third of official recent Covid deaths have fallen into this category. A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases came to similar conclusions.

People’s lives were destroyed because the data was off by a third. But, like environmentalists said: Look on the bright side, at least there was less pollution that allegedly saves lives.

Environmentalists tried to treat the halt of our social and economic lives as a net positive that they hoped to make permanent (thankfully it didn’t happen). It was two years later that the collateral damage was known and even when lockdowns were in place, they had minimal impact on air pollution. But not a tear was shed nor an apology of some kind was issued by the mean greenies.