In a frankly incredible commitment to the bit, the late Herman Cain, who passed last month after a month battling COVID-19, tweeted from beyond the grave to tell his followers that COVID-19 might not be that lethal.

Over the weekend, the CDC published a study which suggested that of the hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 deaths in the United States, many also came in tandem with underlying causes. Only 6% of the deaths, or just over 9,000 people, were due solely from COVID.

Wonder if it is true?

The CDC quietly updated the Covid number to admit that only 6% of all the 153,504 deaths recorded actually died from Covid. That's 9,210 deaths.

The other 94% had 2 to 3 other serious illnesses and the overwhelming majority were of very advanced age.

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) August 30, 2020

To those who believe the coronavirus is built up to be much worse than it really is, this seemed like great news, but to be clear, the "underlying causes" in the study included things like hypertension, obesity and other run-of-the-mill medical issues that were listed as factors contributing to death. Furthermore, virologists pointed out that COVID-19 can greatly exacerbate other conditions due to the assault the disease puts on the lungs. Dr. Ryan McNamara tweeted that those interpreting the number to mean "only 6% of supposed COVID deaths are from COVID" were operating in bad faith.

Those saying "only 6% die from COVID-19 alone", or some derivation thereof, don't understand how infectious diseases work. Many are not operating in good faith, & are the same people who have downplayed this pandemic since February. (4/4)

— Ryan McNamara 🧬 (@Ryan_Mac_Phd) August 31, 2020

Nevertheless, the story spread around conservative Twitter as a sort of "gotcha" to science, and Herman Cain, who died from COVID-19 (and had also battled cancer in his life), tweeted "It looks like the virus is not as deadly as the mainstream media first made it out to be."

Naturally, many found it ironic that a man who had died from COVID-19 was assuring his followers that COVID-19 was not that deadly. To be clear, Cain was not actually tweeting, but rather it was "The Cain Gang," a group of family and staff that is now running Cain's Twitter account, led by his daughter, Dr. Melanie Cain Gallo.

Herman Cain being killed by a pandemic and then later tweeting that the pandemic isn't really that deadly isn't the most important thing to happen in 2020 but it is by far the craziest https://t.co/J96aaOvaKt

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 31, 2020

The twitter account "THE Herman Cain", which belonged to Herman Cain until he died of COVID-19, is now tweeting that COVID-19 'is not that deadly'.

Conservatism is so fucked that Herman Cain is tweeting about how safe COVID-19 is from his fucking grave pic.twitter.com/usKr5cK7wp

— hbomberguy (@Hbomberguy) August 31, 2020

Herman Cain tweeting about how not deadly COVID is after previously dying from COVID. pic.twitter.com/uzBSMl48et

— Kit.🏳️‍🌈 (@KitMaxwell_) August 31, 2020

You’ll remember that Herman Cain died of coronavirus https://t.co/6PZ0zt44ID

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) August 31, 2020

Truly, it takes the work of a diehard poster (or some irresponsible social media managers) to be this committed to the bit.