[CheshireTheCat]

For consideration by those of you who are numbers crunchers and like to dig into the data.

[knarf]

[dsc]

“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?

[ResistorSister]

I like to look at percentages. Yesterday I calculated total Covid-19 death percentages per state population using confirmed cases.

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

[Raycpa]

Almost as if NYT has an agenda.

[Svartalfiar]

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?

Holy crap this guy needs to go back to third grade. Where in that sentence does "on Monday" even appear? Or is he translating "on june 25th" into Monday? Why is "Announced" capitalized, but "june" is not? I guess he doesn't know that "of" is a proposition as well, and there's definitely more than just one propositional phrase in that sentence.

While this guy may have a good point with the overall article, leading off with a bevy of basic mistakes is a terrible way to start your article!