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2021-08-02 at 10:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 YOU IDIOTS ARE SO EASY TO MAKE FUN OF! HELL, ONE SINGLE GOOGLE SEARCH WAS ALL OF THE TRUE INFORMATION I NEEDED.
FUCKING EASILY LED SIMPLETONS SPREADING YOUR DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO BIG OF PRICKS TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE A COUPLE OF LITTLE PRICKS.
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stated on November 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:
The number of people who have died in the U.S. in 2020 is on par with years prior to COVID-19.
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By Samantha Putterman
December 11, 2020
Chart comparing 2020 US death toll with previous years is flawed, uses incomplete data
A chart that compares annual U.S. death tolls using CDC data is incomplete. It doesn’t accurately represent the number of deaths in the country in 2020.
The health agency has reported that an estimated 198,081 excess deaths between late January and early October 2020 in the U.S. are attributable to the virus.
Posts on social media are attempting to downplay the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using a chart that shows that the 2020 U.S. death toll hasn’t changed much from previous years.
The chart, titled "US deaths per year," displays figures comparing deaths in the country for the last five years, ranging from just over 2.7 million in 2015 to 2.9 million in 2019. It says the toll for 2020, as of Nov. 16, is "2,487,350." Some versions also include a whole-year projection of 2,818,527.
"People died before Covid. Amazingly the death rate hasn’t changed. How can that be with such a deadly virus????" one user wrote.
But the comparison is flawed for a few reasons. The 2020 statistics cited are not the final figures, and the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths are attributed to the virus this year. Lastly, it ignores that COVID-19 has killed over 290,000 Americans to-date, the highest virus death toll in the world.
The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
The numbers listed from 2015 through 2018 are legitimate and come from the CDC. The health agency reported 2,712,630 deaths in the U.S. in 2015, 2,744,248 in 2016, 2,813,503 in 2017, and 2,839,205 in 2018.
While the final numbers for 2019 have not been released, the CDC’s provisional count for the year — 2,855,000 — comes close to the chart’s 2,900,689 figure, though it’s not clear how they reached the number.
The chart’s 2,487,350 figure leading up to the week of Nov. 16, 2020, reflects CDC data, but it’s not a complete depiction of how many Americans died in 2020.
Not only does the figure not account for the final six weeks of the year, it doesn’t represent the first few weeks, either. The weekly provisional deaths table doesn’t begin until the week ending Feb. 1, 2020. What’s more, these numbers are continuously updated due to reporting lags, which the CDC says can range from one week to eight weeks or more, depending on the jurisdiction and cause of death.
The provisional tally for the year, as of Dec. 11, has already gone up to 2,728,104.
Meanwhile, in another report, the CDC estimated that COVID-19 has caused almost 200,000 excess deaths in the U.S. from late January through early October. Excess deaths are defined in the report as the number of persons who have died from all causes, in excess of the expected number of deaths for a given place and time.
"Overall, an estimated 299,028 excess deaths occurred from late January through October 3, 2020, with 198,081 (66%) excess deaths attributed to COVID-19," the agency reported.
Lauren Rossen, a data scientist with CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, told PolitiFact that the numbers of deaths in 2020 are "without a question NOT on par with previous years" and that claims that the numbers are equivalent are based on misinterpretations and misuse of the available data.
Since we don’t have all the data for 2020, Rossen said a more accurate analysis would need to involve comparing the number of deaths that occurred in the first 44 weeks, or so, of the year with the number of deaths that occurred over those same weeks in previous years.
"Looking at the number of deaths each year through week 44 (the most recent weeks are incomplete in 2020 due to the length of time it takes to receive and tabulate death certificates), we can see the totals over the same time periods each year. There have been nearly 317,000 more deaths in 2020 than in the same time period of 2019," Rossen said.
Our ruling
A chart circulating online claims to demonstrate that the annual U.S. death toll has not changed significantly in 2020 amid COVID-19.
This is wrong and ignores that the virus has killed more than 290,000 Americans to-date, the most in any country in the world.
The data used for 2019 is not final and the figures presented for 2020 are incomplete. Other CDC data also refutes the claim’s premise, with an estimation of hundreds of thousands of excess American deaths attributed to the virus this year.
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2021-08-02 at 10:56 PM UTC
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2021-08-02 at 11:01 PM UTCGermany 🇩🇪 Box 📦The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-03 at 4:01 AM UTC"Oh, wait, guise!! Those figures we put out six months ago still need some touchups!!"
Can't get any more pathetic than that. -
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2021-08-03 at 11:33 AM UTC
This comes from a Republican 🥴
Bwahahahahahahaha! -
2021-08-03 at 11:35 AM UTCPole,
Where did you say the next fraudit will be?😂😂😂😂😂 -
2021-08-03 at 11:43 AM UTCIn 2019, over 37,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses. That’s nearly five times the number of American troops killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2020, the U.S. government reported 93,000 American residents died from a drug overdose—the vast majority from fentanyl poisoning.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/americas-chinese-fentanyl-flood
Hey sti why isn't the media reporting on this, rather than a couple of geriatrics going to meet jebus a few weeks earlier than otherwise would have been the case.
Nearly 100,000 deaths! You people are evil. -
2021-08-03 at 11:51 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump In 2019, over 37,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses. That’s nearly five times the number of American troops killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2020, the U.S. government reported 93,000 American residents died from a drug overdose—the vast majority from fentanyl poisoning.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/americas-chinese-fentanyl-flood
Hey sti why isn't the media reporting on this, rather than a couple of geriatrics going to meet jebus a few weeks earlier than otherwise would have been the case.
Nearly 100,000 deaths! You people are evil.
Why are you so deliberately stupid? The opioid epidemic has been all over the news.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My gawd you are pathetic 🥴 -
2021-08-03 at 11:52 AM UTC
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2021-08-03 at 11:54 AM UTCAnd notice how fentanyl presented as something no can do anything about, just one of those things we have to accept.
That's how you know they don't care. When it comes to covid they make a major efforts, despite it just killing old people. They make no effort about fentanyl. -
2021-08-03 at 11:55 AM UTC
Originally posted by Donald Trump And notice how fentanyl presented as something no can do anything about, just one of those things we have to accept.
That's how you know they don't care. When it comes to covid they make a major efforts, despite it just killing old people. They make no effort about fentanyl.
Again you are pathetic as a human. -
2021-08-03 at 11:58 AM UTCSoi,
I swear you work hard at being an idiot😂😂😂😂
Good on ya!!!!!!! -
2021-08-03 at 12 PM UTCWhat are you angry about Techno?
Does blaming white people make you feel better? -
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2021-08-03 at 4:25 PM UTCMaking
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Business Insider
A pro-Trump Arizona state senator called for the mass imprisonment of Maricopa County officials after they condemned the election audit
tcolson@businessinsider.com (Thomas Colson)
The Maricopa Board of Supervisors recently condemned the election audit and rejected new subpoenas.
Wendy Rogers called for the election officials to be placed in "solitary confinement cells" in response.
The board's head had called the highly partisan audit an "adventure in never-never land."
An Arizona state senator has called for members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to be imprisoned after they condemned the county's widely criticized election audit, and objected to related subpoenas.
"I would like to know if we have enough solitary confinement cells in Arizona available for the entire Maricopa Board of Supervisors and the execs at the fraud machine company," tweeted Wendy Rogers, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, on Monday. "We are going to need a lot."
Rogers was referring to the baseless claim that Dominion Voting Systems, whose equipment is used in Maricopa County, helped flip votes from Trump to President Joe Biden.
"Should stolen elections be considered treason?" Rogers wrote in a subsequent tweet, referencing the baseless theory shared by Trump and his allies that the 2020 election was illegally rigged against him through widespread voter fraud.
Her comments came after the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors condemned Arizona's partisan audit of the election.
Since April, a Florida firm with no experience in election auditing - named Cyber Ninjas - has been recounting ballots in Maricopa County with the backing of Arizona's GOP-controlled state Senate. Several election officials, including Republicans, have criticized and mocked the audit.
After Arizona Republicans issued new subpoenas on July 26 as part of the audit, board chairman Jack Sellers said his officials had "little time to entertain this adventure in never-never land."
The Board of Supervisors' response also contained a letter from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office rejecting certain demands contained in the subpoenas. Those included turning over ballots or images of them, routers, and network logs.
"There was no fraud, there wasn't an injection of ballots from Asia nor was there a satellite that beamed votes into our election equipment," Sellers said.
"It's time for all elected officials to tell the truth and stop encouraging conspiracy theories."
