The World Health Organization reported that their estimates of the Covid-19 death toll from the first two years of the pandemic were 15 million deaths, much higher than the 6 million casualties reported by individual countries. This includes some non-Covid deaths known to be indirectly related to the pandemic impact on health care, but the majority are Covid-19 fatalities. Is that total fairly accurate or an exaggeration?

While we understand there have been exaggerations along the way by governments wanting to keep attention focused on the seriousness of the pandemic to justify their actions, such as lockdowns and mandates for masking and vaccination, at the same time, they do not want to look helpless, so there is a tendency by reporting agencies to underreport mortality because it is felt to be a failure by those on the frontlines, so to speak, when people are taken ill and succumb despite all measures to save them. This is an open invitation for much finger-pointing, 20/20 hindsight, and criticism about how things have been handled, and whether interventions were done in a timely way or protective measures implemented, with an eye towards prevention, in time to limit the magnitude of the various ways of infection ramping up and increasing the toll in morbidity and mortality. But these figures are close to the truth here and, in actuality, the secondary indirect consequences resulting in lethal outcomes, because of all of the changes within society, make the death toll even higher because reporting is not highly accurate and fully implemented, so there are many deaths that are not tallied under any kind of category. The pandemic has been a huge problem by any estimation, even though the mortality rate is relatively low still, not much above a very serious influenza outbreak, but the high infectivity and the very high eventual incidence in the population shows clearly that preventive measures have not been effective, whether the lockdowns, the mask mandates, social distancing, or vaccination. This is not surprising, it not being a natural phenomenon to begin with, when the nature of the pandemic is that virus particles are being sprayed into the atmosphere in a purposeful but clandestine way, and precisely through means that will effect a high degree of intake to expose people to pathogenic levels of the virus. It is not surprising that it has been unstoppable through human efforts at public health measures for containment—the pandemic will stop when the extraterrestrials decide and not before.