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Democrats in the press tried to publish an article challenging Trump's claim that Democrat cities are more violent. They accidentally proved him right.

Important to remember New York has massively slashed their testing to seem better off

17% of married couples today are interracial. This wasn't the case just 50 years ago, though. Richard and Mildred Loving helped make it possible with their sacrifice and willingness to fight. Courtesy of Tullio Saba via Flickr Interracial Marriage How many new marriages are interracial today?The number of interracial marriages has increased 5 times since 1967. Today, approximately 17% of married couples are interracial. How many couples that are still married today are interracial?1 out of 10 every married people, or 11 million people, are married to someone of a different race than themselves. What percentage of African Americans marry...

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson has developed a wide following on Twitter for detailed posts that challenge some mainstream reporting and government declarations about COVID-19. THEY CENSORED IT! It is based entirely on published government data and scientific papers. It doesn’t say coronavirus isn’t real or doesn’t kill people (in fact, the worst-case death toll is likely to be striking to people). And Amazon won’t run it. — Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) June 4, 2020 Read the full thread here. Thursday morning he tweeted that Amazon had refused to offer for sale his self-published book, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19...

The influential professor's statistical observations could radically change how we lift lockdownJust one month ago, the idea that most people aren’t susceptible to Covid-19 — perhaps the overwhelming majority — was considered dangerous denialism. It was startling when Nobel-prize-winning scientist Michael Levitt argued in UnHerd at the start of May that the growth curves of the disease were never truly exponential, suggesting that some sort of “prior immunity” must be kicking in very early. Today, though, the presence of some level of prior resistance and immunity to Covid-19 is fast becoming accepted scientific fact. Results have just been published of...

A book published 66 years ago and still in print is an essential reference for understanding most of the data that you see about the pandemic afflicting the world today. Written by Darrell Huff and illustrated by Irving Geis, How to Lie With Statistics is both sardonic and a serious lesson in the abuse of math for propaganda. Whether or not it was studied by our Trump-hating media anxious to make the U.S. look bad, some of its lessons are being employed. A few days ago, we learned that the mortality rate from the coronavirus is lower than touted by...

A book published 66 years ago and still in print is an essential reference for understanding most of the data that you see about the pandemic afflicting the world today.  Written by Darrell Huff and illustrated by Irving Geis, How to Lie With Statistics is both sardonic and a serious lesson in the abuse of math for propaganda.  Whether or not it was studied by our Trump-hating media anxious to make the U.S. look bad, some of its lessons are being employed. A few days ago, we learned that the mortality rate from the coronavirus is lower than touted by the "experts."  Much lower.  As in, similar to the...

We Americans gamble every day. Risk taking (gambling if you will) is part and parcel of our culture. Consider the slang expressions we use that are drawn from poker. A guy who can’t be trusted is sometimes called a “four flusher.” Norwegian farmers say, “You betcha,” which is Minnesotan for "you bet". Or, when something looks like a sure thing, “You can bet the farm.” In truth, we take risks every morning when we crawl out from under the covers.  One of the biggest problems with the daily reports coming from our health experts concerning the Wuhan Flu numbers is...

Facts that most of the media will never show because they wouldn’t scare people. 1,603 counties (52%) of U.S total have zero deaths447 Counties (14%) of U.S. Total have one death.443 Counties (14%) of U.S. total have two to five deaths. So, 80% of counties have a maximum total of 2,662 deaths and most of the media, along with supposed experts and some Democrat governors are saying keep the economy in depression until we have a vaccine -- which may never come. If the public saw the truthful numbers, they would be glad to lead their free life again....

Assuming the number of people who have reportedly died from COVID-19 is reasonably accurate, then the percentage of infected people who die from the disease (the death rate) must surely have been much lower than the 2–3% estimates commonly reported. That is because the number of infected people is much larger than the number tested and reported. The triangle graph, from a February 10 study from Imperial College London, shows that most people infected by COVID-19 are never counted as being infected. That is because, the Imperial College study explains, “the bottom of the pyramid represents the likely largest population...

We are drowning in a sea of suspect statistics, many being used selectively by power-hungry politicians — especially COVID statistics. Suppose an obese alcoholic 80-year-old with hips replaced, diabetes, heart bypass, inflammation, and high blood pressure gets the flu, then pneumonia; tests positive for COVID; and dies. What is recorded as the cause of death? It depends on who wants the figures and why. Too often, politics and economics determine the outcome. Does the hospital or physician get paid more for COVID patients? He will find more. Are politicians pushing their Orwellian tracking devices or industrialists pushing universal compulsory vaccinations?...

Data collected at the county level shows that COVID-19 is more prevalent among black and Hispanic populations, revealing significant racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare. County-level data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed staggering racial and ethnic disparities in care, with the virus disproportionately impacting black and Hispanic populations. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice daily by Xtelligent Healthcare Media. A new report from the Commonwealth Fund shows that COVID-19 is more prevalent and deadly in US counties with higher black populations. While African Americans make up about 30 percent of the population in Chicago,...

The decisions that are being made during this crisis are far too important and complex to be based on such imprecise data and with such unreliable results. There’s been a lot of armchair analysis about various models being used to predict outcomes of COVID-19. For those of us who have built spatial and statistical models, all of this discussion brings to mind George Box’s dictum, “All models are wrong, but some are useful”—or useless, as the case may be.The problem with data-driven models, especially when data is lacking, can be easily explained. First of all, in terms of helping decision...

“US has more known cases of coronavirus than any other country” - CNNReading breathless headlines such as this, one would never know that the on a cases per million population basis, the United States  is on par with Germany, often held out as European country with a low incidence of cases, and well below the rates for Spain, Italy, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.  But wait, this must be because of the US’s low testing rate, notwithstanding that our testing rate per million is above that of Spain, France, the UK, and Switzerland.“The United States is reporting 20,000 coronavirus deaths, more than any...

Dallas County has reported a total of 1,644 cases of COVID-19 since March 10. -- Dallas County on Saturday reported its 26th and 27th deaths from COVID-19, as well as 107 additional cases of the new coronavirus. The two residents included a Garland man in his 60s and a Grand Prairie man in his 70s. Both men had underlying health conditions. Their deaths were reported to the county from area hospitals. Dallas County has reported a total of 1,644 cases of COVID-19 since March 10.

Like Bob Geldof, Bono, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, that British guy Gwyneth Paltrow is married to and just about every other wealthy liberal in the world, the Episcopal Church thinks that the way to help Africa is to send it a whole lot of money:“We believe the time is now to stand together as communities of faith, and people of conscience, and embrace our poorest sisters and brothers in the global community,” reads a portion of the petition published on the internet. The petition states further that its principles apply “both [to] those living in well-run economies and those not so...

What if the CDC were only reporting the CCP-19 exact numbers(supposedly) of those "They Tested" who are infected? See, infected might mean this virus is just on your skin or you may be asymptomatic. Would they be lying? Well, no. Not in a literaly sense but, if you look at how they determine how many sick and dead people get, had or died from influenza you might think "These guys must scientists!" Well, they are epidemiologists and a bit like biologists in their methodology. This going to be over simplified That is: They make determinations about populations of whatever a...

Any pandemic or epidemic is a complicated process, and the current one is not an exception. Besides all the actual problems (how to treat people, how to organize logistics, how to inform media and so on), there are basic ones: how to measure different aspects of the process. It was always not easy; it is very hard now. Here are some often repeated critical comments about different widely published and discussed indicators. 1. The real number of people with the virus is drastically higher than reported (according to some authors, by a factor of 10), because many people have the...

April 2, 2020 (I) USA Biophysicist Felix Scholkmann has visualized the fact that in the US (as in the rest of the world), it is not the number of „infected“ people that is increasing exponentially, but the number of tests. The number of „infected“ people in relation to the number of tests remains basically constant (oscillating between 10 and 20%), which speaks against a current viral epidemic.Number of positive and negative tests (left) and percantage of positive tests (right) (Scholkmann, US data) Germany According to the latest influenza report of the German Robert Koch Institute, the number of acute respiratory...

Dallas County Health and Human Services reports another 100 positive cases of COVID-19 Wednesday, including the county's 14th and 15th deaths. The latest victims of the virus include a man in his 50s who was a resident of Mesquite and a woman in her 80s who was a resident of Garland. They were both critically ill in area hospitals before they passed, but it's not clear if they had any ongoing, chronic health conditions prior to being infected with COVID-19. The latest number of confirmed cases bring the county's total number of infected people to 731. "We’re beginning to see...