To: hinckley buzzard
They've never been published because they are meaningless.
Could you perhaps elaborate a bit on that? I find this one paragraph a bit more than meaningless:
"The CDC issues weekly reports on numbers of deaths for 122 U.S. cities with a population over 100,000, or about 25-30 percent of the U.S. In the 14 weeks after Fukushima fallout arrived in the U.S. (March 20 to June 25), deaths reported to the CDC rose 4.46 percent from the same period in 2010, compared to just 2.34 percent in the 14 weeks prior. Estimated excess deaths during this period for the entire U.S. is about 14,000."
That may not be a demonstrable cause and effect at work, but it is damned curious.
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12/28/2011 7:49:49 PM PST by
mkjessup
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To: mkjessup
To: mkjessup
I find this one paragraph a bit more than meaningless:
Seriously? OK. Here goes. A person died by falling off a ladder. This report would chalk up that person's death to Nuclear Fallout from Japan. A person chokes to death on an undercooked turnip. This report chalks up that person's death to Nuclear Fallout from Japan.
"Excess Deaths" were already up year-to-year by 2.34 percent in the 14 weeks prior to the Earthquake. So it stands to reason that "Excess Deaths" fluctuates by several percentage points for no apparent reason.
This same non-logic has been used to "prove" that eggs cause heart attacks or that global warming kills baby polar bears.
Personally, I'm willing to blame every single one of the 14,000 deaths on the American Recovery And Reinvestment Act of 2009.
To: mkjessup
You cannot really put much weight on this report because it is based on speculation, but it is note worthy. Similar to the speculation that cold shutdown has been achieved, when they cannot even measure the temperatures of the majority of the nuclear core material.
IMHO - Still more important to analyze right now what is happening in Japan. They have recently found Cesium in well water around Fukushima, more reports of iodine 131 being found in numerous locations, giant sized vegetables grown in Japan similar to after WWII atomic bombing, seals found dead along coast of Alaska being tested for radiation and a recent admission by a high level Japanese official that the corium has probably broke out beyond the RPV steel lining.
In Japan at least, it will not be a happy New Year.
To: mkjessup
Nothing damn curious about it if the numbers normally fluctuate by large amounts. No reason why they shouldn’t.
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