Posted on 06/27/2020 7:06:46 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Semantics, semantics, semantics. A statement can be both true and completely misleading. Take this following statement: “The New Jersey Department of Health Announced on june 25th that an additional 1877 people had died of coronavirus”. That sentence has one prepositional phrase: “on Monday”. It has two verbs: “announced”, and “died”. To which verb does “on Monday” apply? Did they die on Monday? Or did they die two months ago and were reported on Monday?...New Jersey reported 1877 additional deaths on June 25th. But the people didn’t die on June 25th. The NY Times appears to be graphing when deaths are reported. Why does this matter? Because it can take a month or more for many deaths to get reported. While the epidemic is expanding, this delay may not produce much distortion and a plot of deaths by date will look very similar to a plot of deaths by date reported. But, while the epidemic is contracting the plots may diverge radically...The data for this file is available from the CDC here, and it is backwards updated every week. Every time I download the latest update, the April 11th peak grows. Not so with the NY Times data. Every time I download a new copy of their database (here), new deaths are tacked onto the end, but prior death counts are not revised.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
“Tracking Coronavirus Fatalities – That NY Times Data Might Not Be What You Think It Is”
I think it’s deceptive, dishonest BS. Am I wrong?
COLORADO total deaths = 0.028% of population.
ILLINOIS total deaths = 0.054% of population.
NEW YORK total deaths = 0.132% population.
OHIO total deaths = 0.023% of population.
VIRGINIA total deaths = 0.019% of population.
As of today the total United States Covid-19 deaths = 0.038% per the US population.
I used the "Confirmed" Covid-19 numbers at the following link to calculate the percentages: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+covid-19+count&oq=us+covid-19+count&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.9242j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Almost as if NYT has an agenda.
So N.Y. has more than 3x higher percent of desths than these blue states? Wonder what their national ratio is?
Now, if “I” were a cynical man, I’d say that Cuomo was killing off his retirees, the ones he can’t afford to keep on their bloated but underfunded state pension plans, the ones with the highest annual future medical and health bills, the ones most likely to vote for conservatives in a blue city in a blue state, the ones paying the least in yearly taxes to his government.
But surely that could not be true. Right?
I calculated those exact numbers for those same areas, two months ago, using the same data, projecting it into the future. Nothing has changed.
LOL........as close to the truth as it could possibly be.
What are your thoughts on that fact?
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