The figure is not bogus, how one interprets the figure is the point of contention.
CDC:
For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.
For 94%, there were “additional conditions or causes,” as per CDC. It can be argued that some of these additional conditions were in fact caused by covid, and in some cases surely were. However it seems quite clear to me that a large number of those conditions were underlying conditions, pre-existing infection by the virus, and as the CDC itself says, some of those average of 2.6 additional conditions were “causes” of death.
According to the quote you posted, if someone had cancer, and then caught covid, and this was the immediate cause of death, the cancer would still be the underlying cause of death. According to the co-morbidities listed, it is quite clear that this must be the case in many of these 94% of deaths (not only with cancer, but many other chronic illnesses and heart disease).
The estimate referenced on the Ron Paul Liberty Report citing an ‘expert’ opinion, is that only around 50,000 were killed by covid, the other 100,000+ by the pre-existing/underlying causes listed throughout the CDC data...
It’s bogus because of the deeply flawed math that resulted in a bogus 6% figure.
False claim shared by President Trump that only 6% of CDC-reported deaths are from COVID-19 is based on flawed reasoning
Again, you’re referencing a claim based upon the 6% figure, not the figure itself. Unless the CDC used “deeply flawed math” to come to the figure, it isn’t bogus. It’s straight from the CDC. The figure itself is not bogus, only how people interpret the figure can arguably be considered bogus. I again refer you to the CDC statement copy and pasted above.
I never said that only 6% of deaths were caused by Covid, only that this is more likely than the alternative mainstream narrative that 100% of listed deaths were.
I’ve already been through the faulty reasoning of the ‘fact-checkers’ and also realize the claims they are ‘fact-checking’ in many cases are also based upon faulty interpretation of the CDC data. I never made the claim you reference which the ‘fact-checkers’ deemed bogus, and plenty of mainstream outlet headlines read similar to mine: “94% of ‘covid’ Deaths had underlying conditions”. I did, however, expose how the ‘fact-checker’ logic was as equally flawed as the ‘bogus’ claims they were supposedly ‘fact-checking’...