I have seen the annual deaths in the U.S posted by CDC, with a jump of about 500,000 in 2020 and estimated for 2021. Since we know CDC is yet another Federal agency that can't be trusted, I started to dig into this a little. I am waiting for Texas to send me their data (hopefully they will), so used what I could from CA. I didn't think FL was a good state to use since they have such a large seasonal population. Here is what I found from CA compared to the CDC stats for the entire country:
Population of CA, ~39,550,000
pre-covid death rate of ~0.00683 (total deaths divided by population)
2020 death rate of 0.00811
US population of ~331,000,000
pre-covid deaths in U.S. per year: 2,854,838 (in 2019) 2020 U.S. deaths: 3,358,814
U.S. death rate of: 2019 - 0.00862 2020 - 0.01015
So what is interesting is that the U.S. death rate from CDC in 2019 is about the rate in CA in 2020 (with both pre- and post-covid U.S. death rates higher from the CDC estimate as compared to CA). CA, being the largest state in population, would seem to track fairly well with the U.S., so this quick little analysis brings up an interesting difference that may suggest CDC fudged the total deaths in the U.S. up to support the covid deaths narrative. I will hopefully get the Texas data, since TX is the 2nd most populous state, and would hopefully have truthful numbers. I wouldn't put it past CDC to have altered data from previous years, but that would mean any reports from past years that are not on their site would show those differences, so they wouldn't be that stupid, would they :)
been a long time NPR listener. i went from being a big fan, to being a big critic. i almost can hardly stand to listen to them anymore, the patronizing tone of voices.
i like how one minute they are pretending to be legitimate journalists, asking the hard questions, and then bird-dogging that question in a somewhat combative way, in order to make a point thats really not that great.
they will challenge (a Republican) on a claim (thats been debunked, Senator!), but yet NPR lets all kinds of people make all kinds of claims that have been debunked, but NPR doesn't challenge those claims, because they fit the NPR narrative.
NARRATIVE is the operative word.
NPR isn't "news", is NARRATIVE.
and the NPR narratives are toxic
I used to listen to NPR too and I also can’t stand it anymore. After I realized they form a narrative and ignore any evidence counter to their narrative it became really easy to spot their lies. In my transition out of MSM I used to make a game of listening to them, then trying to spot the lies, then debunking their shit myself when I got out of the car. I don’t have the energy for that anymore, listening to their shit makes my day worse.
Now I simply like to remind normies that:
“A narrative that you’re not allowed to question isn’t news and it isn’t science. It’s propaganda.”
News and science need to be able to stand up to scrutiny or else it’s guaranteed to be bullshit.
Ugh same! Radio Lab, the car guys, Weekend Edition... they use to be fun! Now it's laughable how every 3 seconds has to be about covid or climate.