Too many Freepers who use basic math and common sense to mock COVID-19 hysteria?
Claim: COVID-19 is ravaging the world.
Math: 145,000 global deaths = 0.002% of global population.
Claim: COVID-19 is ravaging the USA.
Math: At least 40 states - including CA, TX, and FL, the three largest - have more COVID-19 deaths than influenza deaths.
Claim: Anyone infected with COVID-19 who dies should be classified as a COVID-19 death, regardless of any other diseases that might be present.
Math: Apply that same standard to influenza, and the USA will have at least 250,000 influenza deaths every year.
the NY numbers certainly need examining by people qualified to do so. clearly, some anomalies can be presumed, given the loose CDC definition of covid deaths, etc., but there may be even more to it.
time will tell, hopefully.
In some cases, the coronavirus deaths have been downplayed, like China and Italy.
Yep. The books are cooked.
The gating sytstem created by the CDC lumps "influenza-like illness" (new acronym, ILI) with COVID for purposes of allowing the herd to leave the barn. The COMBINED numbers must decrease in order to clear the new hurdle. If flu pops up, the social policy will pretend it's COVID.