New York City is lying about Chinese virus death rates; How the deaths are counted doesn't conform to standard methods in a bid to stoke panic

The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count.

Now that New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, we are now regularly inundated on cable TV news with the latest pandemic statistics from the city. The statistics grow gloomier by the hour.

These figures have frightened people into submission as state and local governments across America enact repressive measures they say are necessary to contain the virus or slow its proliferation.

After doing everything in their power to oust President Donald Trump, journalists and others are now calling him a weakling for supposedly not doing enough, while they demand an unprecedented nationwide crackdown.

The problem starts with the fact that the highly influential statistics from the Big Apple paint a false picture of what is actually happening.

In New York City, the death of anyone who dies who tests positive for COVID-19 is counted as a coronavirus death. This is the case even if the coronavirus failed to play a significant role in the person’s passing or illness.

This calculus violates established scientific standards.

Brit Hume of Fox News read about New York City’s unscientific methods in a Twitter thread initiated by a thoughtful user named Adam Townsend (@adamscrabble).

Hume tweeted April 1: “Very informative thread. Explains why NY’s Covid 19 fatality numbers are inflated. They don’t distinguish between those who die with the disease and those who die from it.”

A medical doctor once explained this critical distinction to me.

Arguing against ordering excessive tests for his patients, he said that plenty of old people die who have cancer present in their bodies.

New York City’s government isn’t the only one worldwide doing this.

In an open letter to Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Emeritus of Medical Microbiology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, wrote:

"[T]he mistake is being made worldwide to report virus-related deaths as soon as it is established that the virus was present at the time of death – regardless of other factors. This violates a basic principle of infectiology: only when it is certain that an agent has played a significant role in the disease or death may a diagnosis be made.”

When liars figure, figures lie...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

The false positive rate was 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's or one old fart’s life, it's worth it.

“The doctors are lying”. “Britt Hume tweeted about it”. “If someone dies from choking on a sandwich, but has CV...”
No links to verifiable data, just a stale quote from a doctor who will go down in history as a charlatan.
2,538 dead from CV in New York State, 2,153 in the last week. These are the total deaths FROM ALL CAUSES in New York State for the last 8 years in week 10
2027 2020
2265 2019
2082 2018
2082 2017
2060 2016
2125 2015
1928 2014
2046 2013
So you geniuses have to explain why all the deaths in New York State, plus the extra deaths which don’t normally occur, are attributed to Covid19. Well, maybe all the deaths in New York State are Covid Positive, all the heart attacks, all those mauled by a bear, all the car accidents, all the cancer victims. They must ALL be CV positive, so the evil medical monsters can take away your freedom and say their deaths were caused by Covid19 - because they went to medical school to take away your freedom, right?. But if the infection rate in NY State is 100% (and where is that evidence flu dimwits?), and the disease has a mortality rate or about 1%, then 400,000 New Yorkers are going to die. But keep posting tweets from idiots.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

Vermont Lt:" Can we wait for the surge to peak before dismissing all of the preparation activities?
If the numbers turn and none of this was necessary we can get all outraged then.
You guys expect everything to happen “right now.” Why is that?"

The outrage by expressed by both State and city NY is a mark of the politicization of the pandemic.
They may order more than needed, and when declared "surplus", they can sell those units which they own to other municipalities for profit.
Think of hoarding of the toilet paper at the onset of quarantine with everyone preparing for two or three weeks, but getting dozens of multi-packs
This whoreding (sic) creates the shortage, which in turn increases the value (profit $) of ventilators to those that then need them.

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