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Thursday, September 24, 2020
Wednesday, September 23, 2020
"Virus over. Acknowledge the truth." - A Friend Sent Me This
A friend sent me the graphic above, with the Caption:
"Virus over. Acknowledge the truth."
The image is from Our World in Data which is an excellent site sponsored by Oxford University. I use if often. The publication's founder is the social historian and development economist Max Roser. The research team is based at the University of Oxford.[2]
This image is very misleading and the added headline make it dangerous misinformation. Our World in Data did not write the header. They may wish to delete this graphic since it is being used to spread disinformation which could result in the death of people who believe it.
Note the text in the header of the graphic, "Note the deaths in recent weeks might be undercounted."
The other images paint a bad picture for the USA and world for Covid-19.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Events in the Life of a 70 Year Old
Years Event Total Died Annualized (to date) Rate 2020-present Covid-19 200,000 300,000+-? * 1981-2020 HIV Aids 675,000 17,308 2001-present Afghanistan 1,833 96 2003-2011 Iraq War 3,836 426 Sep 11, 2001 911 2,977 2,977 1955-1975 Vietnam War 58,220 2,911 1950-1953 Korean War 33,686 8,422 1952 Polio 3,000 3,000 *guestimate
for 12 months 200,000 first seven months
Years | Event | Total Died | Annualized | |
(to date) | Rate | |||
2020-present | Covid-19 | 200,000 | 300,000+-? | * |
1981-2020 | HIV Aids | 675,000 | 17,308 | |
2001-present | Afghanistan | 1,833 | 96 | |
2003-2011 | Iraq War | 3,836 | 426 | |
Sep 11, 2001 | 911 | 2,977 | 2,977 | |
1955-1975 | Vietnam War | 58,220 | 2,911 | |
1950-1953 | Korean War | 33,686 | 8,422 | |
1952 | Polio | 3,000 | 3,000 | |
*guestimate | for 12 months | 200,000 first | seven months |
The events above impacted the lives of people presently 70 years old.
For some of Polio was among our first memories when we were very young. Our wars have been sad events, with Vietnam our a major
challenge when we turned 18. HIV AIDS has been with us for 40
years. 911 was an enormous shock. And Covid-19 has made a very
major impact in only seven months.
Sources: |
https://www.historynet.com/civil-war-casualties |
USA Number 10 Out of 215 Countries
The table above shows that the USA is number 10 out of 215 countries for Covid-19 deaths per million people.
Sad.
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Sunday, September 20, 2020
USA, Canada, And Australia
Country | Covid Deaths Per |
Million People | |
USA | 616 |
Canada | 244 |
Australia | 22 |
Source: | https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ |
The table above shows how the three large English speaking countries have done with Covid-19.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Inane Disinformation - Amazingly Stupid !
A friend sent this to me.
"UCLA And Stanford Study Finds That For The Average
50-64 Year Old The Chances Of Dying From COVID-19
To show how stupid this is look at the table below prepared by the CDC. We will use the numbers from the 55-64 group, which is five years less than the group the OAN Video used.
CDC says there are 42,272,636 people in this age group.
According to OAN, there would only be 2 or 3 people dead from Covid-19 from this group. (42,272,636/19,000,000).
CDC says there are 22,254 dead from Covid-19 from this group.
So how many people listen or read this drivel and decide they don't have to be careful about the disease since there is very little risk? And then die?
A friend of mine laughed and said that there is no loss to the human gene pool when people this slow follow this crap and then die from it. But I think that is wrong. We should try to protect them from themselves. But it is difficult.
Mind boggling! Sad!
Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by sex and age group. United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 9/5/2020
Sex | Age group | All Deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1 | Deaths from All Causes | Deaths involving Pneumonia, with or without COVID-19, excluding Influenza deaths (J12.0–J18.9)2 | Deaths involving COVID-19 and Pneumonia, excluding Influenza (U07.1 and J12.0–J18.9)2 | All Deaths involving Influenza, with or without COVID-19 or Pneumonia (J09–J11)3 | Deaths involving Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19 (U07.1 or J09–J18.9)4 | Population5 |
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Total | ||||||||
All ages | 175,866 | 1,894,447 | 180,095 | 78,446 | 6,671 | 283,199 | 327,167,434 | |
Under 1 year | 19 | 10,513 | 99 | 3 | 16 | 131 | 3,848,208 | |
1–4 years | 14 | 2,021 | 70 | 2 | 42 | 124 | 15,962,067 | |
5–14 years | 29 | 3,110 | 94 | 8 | 52 | 167 | 41,075,169 | |
15–24 years | 315 | 19,998 | 402 | 111 | 53 | 655 | 42,970,800 | |
25–34 years | 1,360 | 41,370 | 1,513 | 606 | 151 | 2,404 | 45,697,774 | |
35–44 years | 3,542 | 58,523 | 3,377 | 1,547 | 247 | 5,590 | 41,277,888 | |
45–54 years | 9,324 | 107,903 | 8,747 | 4,292 | 577 | 14,251 | 41,631,699 | |
55–64 years | 22,254 | 247,264 | 23,449 | 10,694 | 1,237 | 36,026 | 42,272,636 | |
65–74 years | 37,684 | 374,953 | 39,742 | 17,965 | 1,444 | 60,671 | 30,492,316 | |
75–84 years | 46,487 | 458,477 | 49,189 | 21,421 | 1,469 | 75,520 | 15,394,374 | |
85 years and over | 54,838 | 570,315 | 53,413 | 21,797 | 1,383 | 87,660 | 6,544,503 |
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Disinformation
A friend sent this to me.
"UCLA And Stanford Study Finds That For The Average
50-64 Year Old The Chances Of Dying From COVID-19
Organization | Number Dead | Population |
OAN Rate (50-64) | 1 | 19,000,000 |
ONN Deaths (50-64) | 17 | 328,000,000 |
CDC Rate (55-64) | 1 | 14,739 |
CDC Deaths (55-64) | 22,254 | 328,000,000 |
Actual - All USA to Date | 193,843 | 328,000,000 |
Actual Rate - All USA to Date | 1 | 1,640 |
The disinformation has been picked up by numerous right wing screwball sites. It is hard to believe they would all put out such terribly incorrect information. You wounder how many people believed this drivel and died because they decided the risk was minimal. The information has been repeated on numerous right wing sites. Some of them are listed on the bottom of this post.
You also wonder about the motivation for putting out such terrible wrong information. Alternatives Include:1. They authors are stupid2. It is Russian disinformation designed to keep the US divided. (OAN has some writers who also write for Sputnik}3. It is right wing propoganda, designed to keep their voters.4, Posting this Clickbate nonsense increases their viewership.5. ??? It really is incomprehensible.
I could find only one fact check on the information.
"Fact Check: 'New' Research Is NOT New, Does NOT Find Average 50- To 64-Year-Olds Have A 1-in-19.1-Million Chance Of Dying From COVID-19"
"Does a 'new' scientific paper definitively show that people aged 50-64 have a 1-in-19.1 million chance of dying from COVID-19? No, this is not true. The paper, which is not new as it was posted June and studies a one-week period in May, has yet to be peer-reviewed and is not to be used to 'guide clinical practice,' according to a warning at the top of the pre-print publication. Also, the research has been updated, dramatically dropping the numbers presented in a widely circulated report. Moreover, the paper is an 'estimation' -- a hypothetical -- that acknowledges its numbers would be baseless if there were spikes in cases, which there has been. The ratio is per person contact, assuming a person only has contact with one other person."
New York Times Jan 6, 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases-deaths-tracker.html
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