Among the most insidious tricks of the last five years was the deliberate conflation of: medically significant cases of Covid, symptomatic infections, asymptomatic infections, mere exposures, the slight detection of something, and outright false positives. They were ALL called CASES, contradicting the whole modern period of public health. We are left with insane and convoluted data that is essentially meaningless. Even with all our tools, all the surveillance, we are left only to seroprevalence studies – rare and even demonized early one – to tell us what the heck was happening. This whole cockamamie misuse of language slipped into the cause of death, leading to uncountable numbers of misclassification. Mistake? Ignorance? I doubt it. Something this significant cannot happen but by some insidious sleight of hand. Bad stuff.