[Aloysius88]

The number we have been needing is one that is not subject to fudging or finagling. During the Spanish Flu in 1918 they used a calculation called excess deaths to determine what number of deaths could be laid directly at the feet of the disease. No assumptions, no hair-splitting, just simple arithmetic. (This is my first post ever. Please be nice. Thanks.)

[xp38]

A headline you’ll never see in the MSM. Virus saves thousands of lives.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Hopeful thinking, but probably not so. According to Rush’s climate guru, Dr Roy Spencer it is an artifact. It takes quite awhile for all the death data to come in (sometimes even a year!) so the most recent numbers will always appear low. His study of this suggests overall deaths will end up in normal range.

[Antoninus]

Based on this, we should make government-enforced social-distancing the new normal. If we don’t then we obviously don’t care about human life. /s

[Hot Tabasco]

During the Spanish Flu in 1918

Is there a break down of deaths per year since it was a 3 year flu.......

[cidrasm]

Elective surgeries are postponed. So medical misadventures are down.

[ChessExpert]

I found this article too. By the way, this type of information is incredibly hard to find. On two or three occasions I have searched on “US Deaths by month” or something similar, without a satisfactory result. What’s wrong with our search engines? What’s wrong with government records? Like Joe Friday, I just want the facts, but they are hard to come by.

The article lists its source as the CDC. I too found the CDC website to be the most promising source of information. However once you get there they offer a myriad of analyses on every topic under the sun. It really takes some digging and I gave up more than once.

The Gateway Pundit deserves a great deal of credit for the work they’ve done. However it is impossible to share their link widely. They have too much opinion and two many political side stories, to be given credence by the general public.

I hope the CDC prepares a simple chart or graph. Total Deaths by month. January deaths by year in one chart. February deaths by year in another graph, etc. This can be also be done again expressed relative to population. Very simple stuff if you have the underlying data, which they seem to have.