DanM wrote:
Remember that comical propaganda nonsense about the Sturgis motorcycle rally causing 250,000 infections in a "super spreader" event ?
Looks like the only employee in the dogma department that week was a summer intern.
https://wset.com/news/nation-world/sturgis-rally-saw-far-less-covid-cases-than-projected-in-2020
Look at Michigan. Who still has mask mandates....who still has problems? Ever think the masking was a bad idea just like the CDC said a year ago. Masks trap pathogens and keep them on your face in your airways and increase the odds of an actual infection over the momentary exposure and clearing of your airways as you breath without a mask.
On the excess deaths...I already corrected somewhere that it was a drop to 2.85 million in 2020 predicted....they dropped the per week estimation by 2000k per week in March 2020. This is a fact, why would they do this knowing a pandemic is on the horizon? Absolute fact, the skewed the the value lower that they use to predict excess deaths down by 2000 per week in March 2020. You can show plots, and hand draw regressions but the fact is the deaths were on the steady rise and then 2018 and 2019 were low increase years, low burden years, meaning a big bump in elderly deaths was on the way, and instead the CDC lower their estimate by 2000 per week just weeks before they started hyping up excess deaths as a measure of the significance....why did they do that other than to be deceptive? I am not saying people did not die of covid, I am saying the estimate is a significant overestimate based on reporting practice and a lowering of the expected deaths by 100,000 from the previous year's estimate.