It's amazing the crap they pulled off with numbers. 500000 sounds scary... until you break down the average deaths for very large, very population dense centres. New York City for example, a normal average of 150 deaths a day from anything. That's over 50,000 a year, from just one of how many US metropolises? The bigger the city you live in, the more unlucky it's going to seem by law of averages.
There was an article talking about the great Flu scam when in early 2000s there was a huge pressure that people were not taking their flu vaccines and so the CDC changed one word in their statistic, and the Flu deaths went from 2k to 50k or so
It's amazing the crap they pulled off with numbers. 500000 sounds scary... until you break down the average deaths for very large, very population dense centres. New York City for example, a normal average of 150 deaths a day from anything. That's over 50,000 a year, from just one of how many US metropolises? The bigger the city you live in, the more unlucky it's going to seem by law of averages.
There was an article talking about the great Flu scam when in early 2000s there was a huge pressure that people were not taking their flu vaccines and so the CDC changed one word in their statistic, and the Flu deaths went from 2k to 50k or so