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COVID-19 has now killed 1 in 500 Americans (scare headline, but that's .2%)
Popsci.com ^ | 9/15/21 | HANNAH SEO

Posted on 09/16/2021 4:31:49 AM PDT by cotton1706

It’s 19 months into the pandemic, and the United States has reached another morbid milestone: 1 in 500 American residents has died from COVID-19 since the country’s first reported infection.

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To: cotton1706

Are those numbers inflated by adding in other causes like flu and motorcycle accidents?

The virus is still largely taking out people who already have other risks.


21 posted on 09/16/2021 6:08:09 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: cotton1706

Die in a motorcycle crash and you too can be a COVID-death.


22 posted on 09/16/2021 6:08:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: cotton1706

I believe even that is high. They’ve said Covid for so many deaths of people with other health conditions and such that this number can’t really be believed either. I would go with 1 in 1500 at best.


23 posted on 09/16/2021 6:11:45 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: cotton1706
340,000,000 * .002 = 680,000

Now, a couple of things to keep in mind:

The count of COVID “deaths” is incredibly inflated, by both the 94% false positive PCR “test”, and by the absurdly dubious counting being done. But if we apply the 94% false positive alone, we find 680,000 * .06 = 40,800. This number, while still most likely overcounting “COVID deaths”, means that the real number is more like 1 in 8,333 Americans that have “died of COVID” (340,000,000/40,800).

Now take that 40,800, and remove all the people who were needlessly killed by unnecessary sedation and intubation, and those who actually died of something else, and the real number of “COVID deaths” is probably closer to 30,000, at most. Now consider that the CDC claims that there were only something like 1800 cases of influenza last year, and that the average age of people “dying of COVID” is more than 10 years ABOVE average life expectancy (and are therefore not unusual, and are what in the past would have been considered dying of old age), and that 30,000 drops to pretty much zero.

EVERYTHING we’ve been told about “COVID” is a LIE.

And by the way, getting into discussions or arguments as to whether the “vaccines” are effective or not, is pointless, because it allows the false premise that “COVID” poses some existential threat to everyone to be accepted. It should not be.

24 posted on 09/16/2021 6:13:09 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: cotton1706

Missing from this is the % of “covid deaths” who were in the terminal state of life due to underlying health issues

How many of this “1 in 500” number were people all ready dying of other health issues?

Covid is a big killer of people with underlying health issues. It not killing off large numbers of healthy people.


25 posted on 09/16/2021 6:17:46 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: cotton1706

…not discounting all the “…died WITH Covid” deaths.

Fell out of a tree? - Covid.

Electrocuted themself? - Covid!

Drunk driving? - Covid!

Fentanyl overdose? - Covid!!!


26 posted on 09/16/2021 6:18:06 AM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: joethedrummer
Fentanyl overdose? - Covid!!!

Frankenvaccinated? - Covid!!!

27 posted on 09/16/2021 6:20:42 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: cotton1706
Here some context to put all the scare porn about Covid into.

https://www.thewanderingrv.com/car-accident-statistics/

Nearly 1.25 million people are killed in car accidents each year. That means, on average, fatal crashes cause 3,287 deaths per day. An additional 20-50 million people are injured or disabled. More than half of all road traffic deaths occur among young adults ages 15-44.

28 posted on 09/16/2021 6:24:44 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: cotton1706
When for COVID-assigned deaths, on average there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death, and hospitals and doctors do get paid more for Medicare patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or if it’s considered presumed they have COVID-19 absent a laboratory-confirmed test, and three times more if the patients are placed on a ventilator to cover the cost of care and loss of business resulting from a shift in focus to treat COVID-19 cases, (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fact-check-medicare-hospitals-paid-more-covid-19-patients-coronavirus/3000638001) then 1 out of 500 is a gross exaggeration.
29 posted on 09/16/2021 7:50:23 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save + be baptized + follow Him!)
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To: cotton1706

1 in 500 is .2%

A fifth of ONE PER CENT.

2 in a thousand==.2%


30 posted on 09/16/2021 8:48:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: cotton1706
"1 in 100 is 1%. 1 in 500 is a 20th of that."

It's one fifth. 2% of KNOWN Covid cases resulted in death (685,000/42,500,000), and 1/500 means .2% of all Americans have died from it. And this assumes that all reported Covid deaths actually were Covid deaths, which we have reason to doubt. And many people probably had Covid (and survived) without knowing it or reporting it.
31 posted on 09/16/2021 9:00:43 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: MNJohnnie
"Nearly 1.25 million people are killed in car accidents each year."

If true, that must be a worldwide total. The typical US auto fatality rate in recent years is between 33,000 - 38,000.
32 posted on 09/16/2021 9:07:19 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yes, that’s a global number.


33 posted on 09/16/2021 9:15:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fake news, fake election, fake president, real deaths.)
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To: Candor7

Bkmk


34 posted on 09/16/2021 9:57:01 AM PDT by pluvmantelo (CRT-Dindunuffinism with a Marxist facade)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Yes, as per the link it is the global number.

Nearly 1.25 million people are killed in fatal crashes each year. On average, that’s 3,287 deaths a day (globally). (Source: https://www.thewanderingrv.com/car-accident-statistics/)


35 posted on 09/16/2021 10:00:07 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: Steven Scharf

Over 37,000 Americans die in automobile crashes per year. More than 90 people die in accidents every day. (Source: https://www.thewanderingrv.com/car-accident-statistics/#tab-con-6)


36 posted on 09/16/2021 10:02:26 AM PDT by Steven Scharf
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To: cotton1706

This is all contingent on the data being accurate.

It’s not, sadly.


37 posted on 09/16/2021 10:04:20 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: cotton1706

And did they die “of” covid, or “with” covid? Seems like someone will die of something in most mixed groups of 500 over not a very long span of months.


38 posted on 09/16/2021 12:07:51 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late." —Bob Dylan)
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