The death numbers from 2020 were, as of when I last looked, in constant flux. They were changing data on the CDC website (the data in their spreadsheets) up to two years after the fact. I tried to save that stuff on the web, but couldn't figure out a way to do it. I saved a few of the ever-changing spreadsheets on my computer, but there is no way to show it from the primary source.
Even if there is an "official" number, the only way to show the fuckery is to show how that number changed. That can be done to some extent through doing date restrictive searches, but it's too easy to say "they figured it out later." What isn't appreciated in such a statement is how much later. They said there was an "8 week lag" to the covid death data because of... whatever. But they were changing numbers (not just small numbers) from March 2020 (and every other month) all the way to the end of 2021. Then I stopped looking.
I wouldnt trust any government stats. If we want the truth we need to go to the actuaries in the insurance industry. I am pretty sure they showed only a statistically meaningless uptick in excess deaths. Nothing like 9 or 27 standard deviations. Those are mind blowing numbers you would expect in a nuclear event.
I know the actuarial info is out there but time is short tonight.
The death numbers from 2020 were, as of when I last looked, in constant flux. They were changing data on the CDC website (the data in their spreadsheets) up to two years after the fact. I tried to save that stuff on the web, but couldn't figure out a way to do it. I saved a few of the ever-changing spreadsheets on my computer, but there is no way to show it from the primary source.
Even if there is an "official" number, the only way to show the fuckery is to show how that number changed. That can be done to some extent through doing date restrictive searches, but it's too easy to say "they figured it out later." What isn't appreciated in such a statement is how much later. They said there was an "8 week lag" to the covid death data because of... whatever. But they were changing numbers (not just small numbers) from March 2020 (and every other month) all the way to the end of 2021. Then I stopped looking.
I wouldnt trust any government stats. If we want the truth we need to go to the actuaries in the insurance industry. I am pretty sure they showed only a statistically meaningless uptick in excess deaths. Nothing like 9 or 27 standard deviations. Those are mind blowing numbers you would expect in a nuclear event.
I know the actuarial info is out there but time is short tonight.