As Coronavirus Hospitalizations Rise in the US, Many States Hide Their Data (politico.com) 167
In America, "Federal and state officials across the country have altered or hidden public health data crucial to tracking the coronavirus' spread, hindering the ability to detect a surge of infections as President Donald Trump pushes the nation to reopen rapidly," reports Politico:
In at least a dozen states, health departments have inflated testing numbers or deflated death tallies by changing criteria for who counts as a coronavirus victim and what counts as a coronavirus test, according to reporting from POLITICO, other news outlets and the states' own admissions... About a third of the states aren't even reporting hospital admission data — a big red flag for the resurgence of the virus...
Nearly half the U.S., meanwhile, has registered rising caseloads as states press ahead with reopening the economy. While some of that reflects increased testing, an accompanying uptick in hospitalizations is worrying experts, including former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb... [He tweeted Sunday that "Daily covid hospitalizations showed sustained decline for two weeks but then over preceding week started to rise nationally."]
In addition to pulling back from its historic role as the central health authority during public health crises, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established few firm standards for how states should monitor Covid-19 and made little overt effort to coordinate its messaging with state and local health departments. That's created a patchwork system where key health information is collected and communicated with little uniformity, and amid rising concern over whether Americans are receiving reliable reports about the pandemic fight. At least a half-dozen states have admitted to inflating their testing figures by mixing two different types of tests into its totals, a practice widely derided as scientifically unsound. In Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp has been among the strongest proponents of reopening, the inclusion of antibody tests inflated the state's overall testing count by nearly 78,000 — a disclosure that came a few weeks after officials posted a chart of new confirmed cases in Georgia with the dates jumbled out of order, showing a downward trajectory....
Florida has weathered a string of controversies over its evidence to support GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis' boasts that the state is faring better than most, including an attempt to block access to information on nursing home deaths and the firing of a health department official who now alleges she was pushed out for refusing to manipulate the state's data.
Nearly half the U.S., meanwhile, has registered rising caseloads as states press ahead with reopening the economy. While some of that reflects increased testing, an accompanying uptick in hospitalizations is worrying experts, including former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb... [He tweeted Sunday that "Daily covid hospitalizations showed sustained decline for two weeks but then over preceding week started to rise nationally."]
In addition to pulling back from its historic role as the central health authority during public health crises, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established few firm standards for how states should monitor Covid-19 and made little overt effort to coordinate its messaging with state and local health departments. That's created a patchwork system where key health information is collected and communicated with little uniformity, and amid rising concern over whether Americans are receiving reliable reports about the pandemic fight. At least a half-dozen states have admitted to inflating their testing figures by mixing two different types of tests into its totals, a practice widely derided as scientifically unsound. In Georgia, where Gov. Brian Kemp has been among the strongest proponents of reopening, the inclusion of antibody tests inflated the state's overall testing count by nearly 78,000 — a disclosure that came a few weeks after officials posted a chart of new confirmed cases in Georgia with the dates jumbled out of order, showing a downward trajectory....
Florida has weathered a string of controversies over its evidence to support GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis' boasts that the state is faring better than most, including an attempt to block access to information on nursing home deaths and the firing of a health department official who now alleges she was pushed out for refusing to manipulate the state's data.
The US is a shithole country (Score:3, Informative)
That's becoming more and more obvious.
It is a page from the waning superpower playbook. (Score:5, Interesting)
It ain't there if we hide it well.
For examples, check out every single failed modern superpower, from Austro-Hungary to the Soviet Union.
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Well, China should be at the top of that list. Interesting that you didn't include it.
Re:It is a page from the waning superpower playboo (Score:5, Insightful)
Well, China should be at the top of that list. Interesting that you didn't include it.
China is a developing country on the verge of superpower status, not a superpower on the decline. Things could certainly change and China's future could more closely resemble Japan in the 90's, but even if China does falter it wouldn't be a superpower losing its status. It would be a developing nation going through growing pains.
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Re:It is a page from the waning superpower playboo (Score:5, Insightful)
If China doesn't qualify as a superpower, then nobody (other than the United States) does.
Correct, no one but the United States qualifies for superpower status right now. Russia did a few decades ago, and going further back there have been plenty (Britain, Spain, Portugal, Austria-Hungary, Prussia-Germany, etc). But right now the United States is the only one. China likely will be soon, and the European Union always has the opportunity if it can actually unite.
Re:It is a page from the waning superpower playboo (Score:5, Insightful)
Russia did a few decades ago,
I agree with your points, allow me a nitpick - it wasn't Russia that was the superpower, it was the USSR. And it was a totally different country from Russia today (and from Russia's Tsarist past).
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So the Russian intelligence apparatus is a myth because the Russian people are poor. Makes total sense.
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I'll be honest, I'm not going to read your hole post because I've read enough. Fact is that every intelligence agency our country has regards Russia as a threat. You can spin conspiracy nonsense all you want, pretend you know better than a plethora of people far better educated than yourself, and highlight minor contrary data while ignoring massive supporting evidence all you want. It won't change reality.
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Your intelligence services consider every country that doesn't do what the USA demands a threat.
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When you discuss Russia's capabilities today vs. the Soviet Union's of 50 years ago, you should consider carefully the scope of your claims. If you are discussing, like I do, the whole shebang, of course Russia is no global power.
But consider what their "intelligence services" are up to - the so-called "hybrid warfare", which basically means propaganda and break-ins, and consider how the landscape has changed in the "IT" area, and you'll see easily that even a small, well-directed campaigns can be in many w
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What? No Ottomans?
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In your dreams, China troll.
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By what standard does China lack superpower status? They have nuclear weapons, spacecraft, and both bankrupt and enrich other nations. They've been one of the superpowers for decades since at least the 1970's, if not since World War II and superpowers were first labled as such.
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By what standard does China lack superpower status?
By the golden one. They are not able to project military power globally as the US or the USSR or Britain of old can/could, neither conventional, nor nuclear.
Their nuclear weapons will work only for retaliation, they don't have and have not deployed, as far as it is known, effective weapons and delivery systems capable of a first strike or tactical nukes. They appear to be actively developing them, but they aren't there yet. Their conventional forces are also being upgraded and expanded, but they are still u
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By what standard does China lack superpower status?
As Dollar Ton pointed out, military power is the primary reason China does not qualify as a superpower for most (although plenty of people argue they already do qualify).
Superpowers are generally defined as nations who can project power on a global scale through economic, military, technological and cultural strength. I would say China is there economically, their GDP is nearing US level and it is half as reliant on exports as it was just 15 years ago. Technologically it is arguably there, but perhaps not q
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China has at least hundreds of nuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles to deliver them globally. Given the extent of Earth's land area over which they exert direct military control, I'd call them a global military power, even if only a small amount of that military power is deployed outside their own borders.
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"Projecting power" means that you can force people into doing what you want them to. When it is done not by force, but by an implied threat of force (one kind of "soft power"), it is even better. To credibly threaten people in this manner, you need a conventional army that is deployed worldwide and can dispense on a short notice and simultaneously large scale crimes against humanity in locations that are far apart, so that the people you want to manipulate are aware you can paradrop in their city, catch t
Re:It is a page from the waning superpower playboo (Score:4, Insightful)
China is still a rising superpower, so they don't belong on that list. Their problem of multiple layers of bureaucracy inflating the good metrics and downplaying bad ones goes back at least to Mao. That sort of thing is easy to do when the entire government speaks with one voice, the press is neutered, and online forums are censored. But I'm not that worried about Chinese officials lying to please their leaders--we have intelligence services to tell us the truth about what happens there.
What worries me is that leadership in America ignores experts like intelligence services and epidemiologists when they present inconvenient truths. What worries me is that loyalty is valued over competence, and truth is called censorship. These are symptoms and exacerbators of decline.
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These are symptoms and exacerbators of decline.
yes. These were many of the same things that I witnessed with USSR during cold war. Sad.
somthings Trump is saying is right.
He pulled us out of Paris accord, which many ppl are now realizing are WORTHLESS. Unless ALL NATIONS are made to stop growing, it is worthless. OTOH, his reason had noting to do with caring about AGW. it was Trump's sincere hope to grow America's coal in the same fashion that China is. Just what the world needs.
Likewise, China has been in a cold war with the west. Just because the
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Trump could EASILY bring back American manufacturing from China. Simply re-write taxes. Yet, he refuses to do that.
Your whole post is a little strange but this quote is patently wrong. American manufacturing hasn't spent the last 40 years relocating to China because of poor tax policy, they've done it because they can pay their workers piss wages in China. I mean please, can you even tell me exactly what tax policy needs to be changed to create this scenario where American manufacturing comes back?
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> Pointing out truthfully that someone is an illegal alien can get you charged with a crime is some jurisdictions.
Where exactly?
Re: It is a page from the waning superpower playbo (Score:2)
Hes not wrong on that. The speech police are in full force. Right now its a couple city governments that have passed ordinance banning the use of the term illegal alien. But the fact that even one town thought it was ok to pass a law so blatantly anti-first-amendment just shows how little people even study the rulebooks in the very organization they work in. The constitution pretty-much is your employee handbook if you work in government.
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He is laughably wrong on that, which is why he posted AC. Also, he is probably one of those people who likes to cite arrest statistics by race without acknowledging underlying socioeconomic factors. Or that in some states you can be white and kill a man--on video--and have the DA decline to press charges. Or that in some states you can have an armed white militia take over the statehouse, and have one arrest (for fighting with another protester), while protesters and media on the street in MPLS, Detroit, an
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And here you make this about China when the subject is data being withheld by US states. Also interesting.
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It couldn't have come at a better time. We need to concentrate on ourselves, not start wars all over the world. America is a destructive and evil influence in the world. The people who see America as a threat is literally everyone in the world, and our allies are just our allies because they fear us. They have a strong dislike for America in spite of the trillions of dollars we've spent and continue to spend on them.
It's about time we stopped meddling in affairs that don't concern us, and attend to our
Re:It is a page from the waning superpower playboo (Score:4, Insightful)
in spite of the trillions of dollars we've spent and continue to spend on them.
The US has profited massively from its superpower status. Pretending that the US is somehow a victim of its status is stretching the truth a bit beyond credulity.
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Pff. "The US" isn't a monolith. The people who have benefited are the people who were already rich.
The world has told us in no uncertain terms to piss off, go home, and that they hate our guts. We've exported so much democracy that we need to start importing it instead. Billionaires pay millionaires to tell the middle class that the poor are the problem. Stop fucking worrying about the masses of powerless poor people and punch up and fight the ruling class criminals. Who fucking cares if Joe Blow is a
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WRT decreasing the involvement of America w
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Canada is right next door to the USA and we hate you fucking through and through. The only good USAian is a dead USAian. You bunch of asshole sanctimonious pricks. Just fuck off and die why don't you. No one wants you.
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> most people in the world love America
Ahahahahaha.
> The consumption of American media is so pervasive around the world that some people see
their news media too and the place looks like a shitshow.
You know what, don't take my word for it. Let's use my non-Russian non-Chinese country as an example: .
We like the Americans who aren't stupid. But dude, seriously, you are not in that category.
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On the other hand consider this: how many you
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And American defense contractors will be happy when Europe spends it's money on Chinese and Russian hardware?
American banks and energy companies will happily sit by if the Euro or Yuan become the global currency for oil/energy?
America has always been about America First. Trump is just the first one stupid enough to say it out loud and shine the spotlight on it.
Complete and utter nonsense. (Score:2)
What world do you live in? I ask because it clearly isn't ours. I regularly vacation among our allied nations and they generally love Americans, although negative commentary has certainly increased a bit with our current president's policy of "fuck you allies". In fact, you can still get props for our grandfather's heroic efforts over there (note, America is not evil) despite being too young to have anything to do with it. ...And Angela Merkel as leader of the free world? If by "world" you mean the continen
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Because the people propagating the lies are stupid? The only reason for a rise in cases and the start of a leading death increase would be the morons who ran out and had unsafe sex on Mummy's day.
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Some of what is going on could be characterized as willful blindness.
General pneumonia deaths are usually lumped in with influenza deaths, since influenza is is the main source of annual and seasonal variation in pneumonia. In March and April of this year, the country saw huge spikes in "pneumonia/influenza" death reports [cdc.gov], even as normally the flu season should be winding down.
I suspect this reflects differences in local reporting standards for deaths where COVID-19 testing was not done. Some states use
Re:It is a page from the waning superpower playboo (Score:4, Insightful)
The USA straddles between a 1st world and 2nd world country. It’s military is still clearly superpower status, but many other things, like workers rights, public health care, education, wage growth, prison system growth, political leadership, infrastructure, have shown slow declines since the 70s.
Cmon USA, get your mojo back. I don’t want China taking over great swathes of the world.
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Feel free not to come!
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Your anti-America, ha-ha-America-sucks-my-country-is-so-much-better bullshit? You're being the
Not possible (Score:3, Interesting)
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Only authoritarian regimes can hide public data.
Fixed it for you. Any political system can be taken over by authoritarians, even democracies.
All the deaths (Score:1)
nobody believes the lies (Score:2)
Liberate America!
Liberate our brothers in India! Liberate our brothers in UK! Liberate Australia! Liberate Brazil! Liberate Hong Kong! Liberate France! Liberate Chile!
Liberate humanity!
Night the lights went out... (Score:2)
Ladies and Gentlemen, obvious to the eye and common sense, welcome to the new world order. Woke. You now are free to see for yourself, govern your own destiny and turn the lights out on the last vestige of a once functioning democracy. Like an old camera in use from the Roaring 20's that captured reality one snapshot at a time depending on who took it, where and what moment. Undeniably true just not the whole truth. The 30's were waiting after the party-pics then.
Today black men and men of color other
Hard to take Slashdot seriously (Score:2, Informative)
when they still take Rebekah Jones seriously. She wasn't fired for refusing to manipulate data on the state's web site. Despite her claims, she's not a scientists or analyst - her degree is in geography and journalism - and she was not the architect of anything, she just had the password for a particular package that a lot of states are using. She was a webmaster, and an insubordinate one who was fired for refusing to stop manipulating the web site after being told to.
She also has a history of very bad judg
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Hard to take Slashdot seriously when they still take Rebekah Jones seriously... Slashdot finds her credible.
When you say "Slashdot" what are you referring to? The site? Some statistical survey of submissions? Some statistical survey of user comments? Of high-voted comments? It sounds like you are inventing bogeymen and labelling them, and I'm not sure how that helps you nor discussion involving you.
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Play The Headline Selection Game (Score:1)
(1) Federalist system leads to different responses. Difficult and controversial choices made on how to quantify pandemic.
(2) Population furious that gunshot victims and alcohol-poisoning deaths included in covid tallies. Lose trust in state officials and push for reopening.
(3) States look to minimize mistakes made early in Covid response by creating data standard for nursing home deaths that they don't use for other deaths.
(4) Someone from the Kaiser Family Foundation makes a quote
Not just states are hiding the numbers (Score:5, Informative)
Giant meatpacking companies such as Smithfield [foodprocessing.com] and JBS have deliberately not reported [agweb.com] the number of infections or deaths at their plants. We only know about these conditions because people called into the state health departments and notified them what was going on [omaha.com] as well as hospitals reporting a spike in admissions. Tyson has even ordered employees back to work [fwweekly.com] knowing they were sick and infected.
Then of course there is Amazon who tries not to report cases [bloomberg.com], and even hides them from its employees. It also prevents local health departments from inspecting its warehouses [tmj4.com] after cases and deaths are reported.
Considering the con artist couldn't be bothered to take any action for over two months, has gone out of his way to say it's no big deal, who has used the power of big government to intercept [businessinsider.com] and confiscate deliveries of PPE [latimes.com] that states have bought, with one state using subterfuge to hide its delivery [thehill.com] and having it guarded by the National Guard, is is any wonder states, particularly Republican-led states, will do whatever they can to downplay the pandemic? After all, it's just 110,000 who have died in three months. No big deal.
Re:Not just states are hiding the numbers (Score:5, Funny)
Giant meatpacking companies such as Smithfield and JBS have deliberately not reported the number of infections or deaths at their plants.
Isn't this something that the local coroner would track? How does a meat packing plant hide dead bodies?
Never mind. Sorry I asked.
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The US has a much lower death rate per capita than the EU countries
If people don't wear their masks, this won't be true for long.
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According to Worldometers, seven EU countries have larger per capita death rate than the US: Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland. Together they have 49% of the total EU population. Their combined death rate from COVID-19 is 511/million population. The combined death rate of the whole EU is 284/million population, and that's somewhat lower than the US rate of 319/million population.
If you included the UK (which is not in the EU any more), you'd get 321/million population, abou
More third world responses (Score:3)
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Coulda had Bernie... again. But, "the blacks don't like him enough". "He'll change healthcare too much!" Instead, let's go with Joe "You ain't black" Biden. Great idea.
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Imagine a world.. (Score:2, Interesting)
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Fake news (Score:2)
nobody believes the lies anymore (Score:2)
No one believes the Corona tyranny's lies anymore. The Official Narrative is thoroughly discredited. The masses are awake.
Everyone knows duh Corona flu is not a plague.
Everyone knows LOCKDOWNS KILL.
Everyone knows the Corona tyranny is a putsch, not a public health response.
The people have thrown off their muzzles. Walking outdoors in the sunshine. Breathing fresh air. Socializing with friends. Shaking hands. Living like normal human beings, not like some sicko's fantasy of bare life under the biopolitical i
Trend? Or fluctuation? (Score:2)
Two weeks down, one week up, according to the tweet. How much were hospitalizations increased? Did the increase wipe out the reductions of the last two weeks? Is one week of increase more of a trend than two weeks of decreases? It would surely be nice to see some data!
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Damn right. They cannot handle the truth!
The US has done an amazing job! Anyone but our present government would have had 2,000,000 deaths by now. We are leading in testing, which is the only measure that matters, no matter how we have arrived at the numbers!
USA! USA! We are number one!
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Woosh! Poe's law in effect here.
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Re:The media misunderstands and abuses data (Score:4, Informative)
Belgium counts its Covid dead cases far differently than most countries, leading to a higher relative count. Doubly ironic that you're trying to draw conclusions about the US's performance when TFA shows cases and deaths are being drastically undercounted by states across the country.
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Sorry what?
America is actually ok because you have so many gunshot victims it's enough to skew the statistics of a pandemic if they're mis assigned? Holy shit!
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That's not what you said, bro. Keep your story straight.
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I thought you pointed to an article where the gun shot victim's status was corrected.
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Having a couple of people miscounted does not point to policy. No the USA does not count gunshots or traffic fatalities as COVID-19 cases. But I guess you found evidence of a 0.01% error in the USA's official figures.
*slow clap*.
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Do you actually read the entirety of the articles you post, or just selectively remember the parts that you agree with? From the VERY ARTICLE you posted:
""We suspect that we are actually more likely to be undercounting deaths than overcounting them," Hutchison said."
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Re a different thread -
Ssssh don't tell the jackass that he's not quite as dumb as it looks (because he was being a total jackass).
I didn't say whether the downed aircraft had wings that rotate or not. :)
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NY State is 47K square miles; Belgium is about 11K square miles. That's a ratio of 4:1. And the populations of Belgium is half that of NY State.
A better comparison - in size and population - is the greater Los Angeles area (also about equal in GDP: $900 billion for the greater LA area, about $750 billion for Belgium). The greater LA area is around 13 million people (Belgium is around 11 million), and at ~9,000 square miles is very close to Belgium. The deaths in the greater LA area are around 2200, compa
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Pop Belgium 11460000 Confirmed cases 58186 Percentage 0.507731239092496
Pop America 328200000 Confirmed cases 1769776 Percentage 0.539237050578915
America's death rate is higher than Belgium's, you stupid moron.
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No, my mistake. That was case rate.
Of course, the problem with your logic here anyway is that the US still isn't reporting its data properly, being heavily undertested and heavily under-reported.
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They can't be trusted with it. They can't even understand why US death rates might be different than in other countries, and claim conspiracy.
Can you explain? I have not seen any "conspiracy". I have seen some evidence of politicians CYA'ing - see individual state's data. And of course, the Trump's administration's continual obfuscation. Here is the data. https://www.worldometers.info/... [worldometers.info] The USA is at the top for total number of deaths and #12 for deaths/million. I don't know what media you are talking about, but the facts are we - the USA - are doing pretty shitty; especially for an advanced country.
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They can't be trusted with it. They can't even understand why US death rates might be different than in other countries, and claim conspiracy.
Can you explain? I have not seen any "conspiracy". I have seen some evidence of politicians CYA'ing - see individual state's data. And of course, the Trump's administration's continual obfuscation. Here is the data. https://www.worldometers.info/... [worldometers.info] The USA is at the top for total number of deaths and #12 for deaths/million. I don't know what media you are talking about, but the facts are we - the USA - are doing pretty shitty; especially for an advanced country.
Perhaps the USA is actually publishing as accurate numbers as they can, in the interest of transparency.
Or, you could be one of those ignorant ones who actually believes a country holding 17% of the human population only has 5,000 deaths right now. And, no, I'm not even talking about the biggest liars here (China). Bullshit numbers are bullshit, so you can stop pretending your "fact" source, is accurate.
And the MSM cannot be trusted to do anything beyond political shit-slinging to appease their (Donor Cla
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But I read on CNN that Trump murdered 100,000 Americans and it didn't have to be that way! Plus 100,000 is a big number!
The shitheads here won't get your point: the US did a HELL OF A LOT BETTER than those EU countries with their glorious healthcare systems.
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But I read on CNN that Trump murdered 100,000 Americans and it didn't have to be that way! Plus 100,000 is a big number!
The shitheads here won't get your point: the US did a HELL OF A LOT BETTER than those EU countries with their glorious healthcare systems.
Say it as often as you like it's still not true.
Re:The media misunderstands and abuses data (Score:5, Informative)
oof, so many issues with your post.
1. The TFA is about how the USA numbers, including deaths are under counted.
2. The USA is behind many of these countries by a couple weeks to a month from when it started to spread in the community in those countries, and the US rate of increase right now is higher then any of the countries you pointed out (except Sweden, they are botching this even worse the the US).
Compare them based on when the outbreak in those countries started and you can see that the USA will pass Ireland and the Netherlands very soon.
You can do that here: https://ourworldindata.org/cor... [ourworldindata.org]
3. I live in Canada, I do not know anyone who has private health insurance. The vast majority of our health care is socialized. We like it that way.
4. You left out (intentionally?) several countries that would deflate your point. Switzerland, Portugal, several eastern European countries, Austria, Monaco....Combining this with point 2 the USA is much closer to the top of the list then the bottom, and not the shining example you make it out to be.
5. The US had more time to prepare then Europe, it was spreading in Europe before it was here so North American's had plenty of extra time to prepare.
6. You can't just take out New York and New Jersey because they have numbers you don't like. They just show the path the rest of the US will follow if you keep up with your premature opening (assuming the states report accurate numbers moving forward).
7. Just because Belgium and Sweden and some other countries (who had less time to prepare) botched it does not mean the US is doing well. There are a number of projections that show if the US had acted earlier tens of thousands of lives would have been saved, tens of thousands of needless deaths is not a good job.
Note: I am not patting Canada on the back, our numbers are much higher then they should be, we also acted too slow and killed thousands of people needlessly. More then half of our numbers are from one province (Quebec), and despite being the worst hot spot in the country they are already opening up, which will continue to push Canada's numbers much higher. I am sure every country has regions like that, so we don't get to delete their data from our averages either.
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That is insurance like this: https://www.sunlife.ca/en/expl... [sunlife.ca]
Not insurance like people in the states generally mean when they say health insurance.
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Yea, we don't have government single payer dentistry and prescriptions and eye care is only covered in some situations.
Old age care is also a mixture, and as we've been finding, the private sector has been doing a shit job at running the care homes.
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Given that Cuomo outright ignored CDC recs on nursing home protocols and just stuffed Covid positive patients into them as well as allowed covid positive workers to keep working with them, NY is a particularly piss poor metric to gauge the rest of the US's response.
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Most of Canada's deaths have been happening in private care homes, including where just the services have been privatized. Yeah for austerity.
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Thank you. ^^^^^^^^^ +informative
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I mean, that's what the 2nd is for, right?
To be able to express your ideas but also to be able to criticize others when you think they are doing/saying something wrong. I do prefer when people criticize by presenting facts instead of just opinions.
But i have to agree with the OP.. The media all over the world have been going crazy about covid-19 and trying to use non-peer-reviewed studies as truth. Don't know how many statements they have made that have been proven completely false due to lies or incomplete studies..
The mainstream media i try to ig
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SARS-CoV-2 hitting minorities hardest + states and federal government hiding the virus statistics = racism.
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We get it already. You are a selfish asshole who doesn't care if tens of thousands of people die. Please fuck off and go post your selfish inane bullshit somewhere else. Our down mods of your posts are there to let you know that no one here will miss you. I am sure there are some CHAN forums where your assholisms will be up voted instead of down voted. You will be happier, we will be happier, they will be happy to have you, it is a triple win.
So, with heartfelt sincerity, please fuck off.