The best thing to pull from those numbers isn't the contrast between COVID and the flu... It's the overall decrease in COVID deaths since March 28th:
March 28th: 2,659
April 4th: 7,932
April 11th: 11,864
April 18th: 9,333
April 25th: 2,167
Seems like the peak happened right around April 11th no? And if that's the case, Blue State Governors have lost the initiative and CAN NOT hide behind this slogan of "flatten the curve", the curve is about as flat as most of Joe Biden's victims at this point.
They claim to being using data, but they certainly aren't using it correctly. My state is looking at new cases over time to see how we should open. They are looking at the new cases and saying that there is an upward trend. Well if two weeks ago, when testing wasn't as robust, you test 500 people in a day and 30 came back negative, that is a downward trend compared to today when you test 2000 people and 80 come back positive. They are only looking at the numerator, and these values are not in like terms. Anyone with the slightest clue about how you look at data would know this. It is set up to fail.
Downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period OR Downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests within a 14-day period (flat or increasing volume of tests)
Whether your state is using the alternative measure is an issue to take up with them.
Anyone wanting to discuss the "meta-science" behind testing, how the stats are gathered, are they comparable to other countries, can we estimate a mortality rate, etc., are labelled conspiracy theorists and bashed with "facts" consisting of sharing media articles and facebook memes.
I've tried explaining this many times to people on team apocalypse, but they still just hide behind "but the experts say..." or "I'll listen to the experts, not some rando-tRumper"
The best thing to pull from those numbers isn't the contrast between COVID and the flu... It's the overall decrease in COVID deaths since March 28th:
March 28th: 2,659
April 4th: 7,932
April 11th: 11,864
April 18th: 9,333
April 25th: 2,167
Seems like the peak happened right around April 11th no? And if that's the case, Blue State Governors have lost the initiative and CAN NOT hide behind this slogan of "flatten the curve", the curve is about as flat as most of Joe Biden's victims at this point.
They abandoned flatten the curve back around April 11th, lol.
Now it's "nothing is worth one life". In other words, "We are not opening shit until this is gone."
They all claim to be using data to back up their decisions, but they're all ignoring the numbers in favor of just being scared, clearly.
No, I think it's more like 'we're shutting this down until early November so that the democrat can win the election'.
They claim to being using data, but they certainly aren't using it correctly. My state is looking at new cases over time to see how we should open. They are looking at the new cases and saying that there is an upward trend. Well if two weeks ago, when testing wasn't as robust, you test 500 people in a day and 30 came back negative, that is a downward trend compared to today when you test 2000 people and 80 come back positive. They are only looking at the numerator, and these values are not in like terms. Anyone with the slightest clue about how you look at data would know this. It is set up to fail.
An alternate criteria is the percentage of POSITIVE tests, as long as the number of tests are stable or increasing:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/#criteria
Whether your state is using the alternative measure is an issue to take up with them.
Anyone wanting to discuss the "meta-science" behind testing, how the stats are gathered, are they comparable to other countries, can we estimate a mortality rate, etc., are labelled conspiracy theorists and bashed with "facts" consisting of sharing media articles and facebook memes.
i jUSt cArE abUt dA sCienCE bRo!
“oh yeah? just wait two weeks!”
I've tried explaining this many times to people on team apocalypse, but they still just hide behind "but the experts say..." or "I'll listen to the experts, not some rando-tRumper"
It's civil war though. they are doing their job of distracting and war gaming us to see what we'll put up with.
Negotiating with terrorists is not my strength.
Bill of Rights is non negotiable. Alter or Abolish.
I'm not on team apocalypse of course, but you and everyone else on this thread are completely misreading the table.
Each row is the number of deaths THAT WEEK.
So there were 7,932 for the week of 4/4
2,167 for the week of 4/25
etc...
There's nothing suspicious about that.