Here is an explicit joint distribution, for : assign mass at , mass at , mass at , and mass at for ; all other masses are zero. These are nonnegative: the first is decreasing in , and at it is still positive. Summing over rows and columns gives a Bernoulli distribution with mean and a Poisson distribution with mean , so the joint mass sums to one.
Only contributes to the mixed first moment, giving and the covariance above. The strictly decreasing function has a unique zero in , approximately . At that parameter the variables are uncorrelated. They are nevertheless dependent, because whereas . The Bernoulli independence from zero covariance result requires both variables to be Bernoulli and does not apply here.

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