admitting the truth behind SOME co-vid deaths

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If true, that too would present false high numbers.
Again, simply asserting that the numbers are high is meaningless if you can't say how far off they actually are or offer a way to determine which deaths are wrongly attributed to COVID. And it ignores the fact that just as some deaths are going to be wrongly attributed to COVID, some COVID deaths will be wrongly attributed to other causes. The margin of error goes both ways.

There is an undeniable FACT that more people have died - regardless of the cause - in the last few months than expected.
 
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No it's how it works, thats how diseases work, you guys are tilting at windmills trying to find any reason to attack covid numbers, and it's seriously a joke. When you look at flu or covid deaths, you want to look at everything that lead up to the deaths, and how much a part covid was involved.
There have been instances where Covid had 0%...and it was counted as a covid death.

To be fair there has been some deaths removed. I believe Pennsylvania removed some deaths from their count after reevaluating them.
 
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"A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. However, there is a chance a positive result means that you have antibodies from an infection with a virus from the same family of viruses (called coronaviruses), such as the one that causes the common cold." (cdc source)


The Covid Tracking Project and the NYT are the two most widely used aggregators of Coronavirus test results.

Neither includes antibody tests in their confirmed cases figures.

So when you look at data from pretty much any chart published about US 'cases' you are looking at RNA test results.

Excerpt from Covid Tracking Project Data FAQ:
Are you reporting antibody (serology) tests or PCR (viral) tests?
We are currently capturing both data about antibody tests and data about PCR tests, but to our best knowledge we are only publishing data about PCR tests. Some states do not clarify what kind of tests they are reporting. If states are silently including antibody test data in their overall test data, our dataset will also include it. Once we are sure that a majority of states are reliably reporting antibody test data, we will publish national- and state-level data about antibody testing.​

Excerpt from NYT Github page:
  • Confirmed Cases
Confirmed cases are counts of individuals whose coronavirus infections were confirmed by a laboratory test and reported by a federal, state, territorial or local government agency. Only tests that detect viral RNA in a sample are considered confirmatory. These are often called molecular or RT-PCR tests.

  • Probable Cases
Probable cases count individuals who did not have a confirmed test but were evaluated by public health officials using criteria developed by states and the federal government and reported by a health department.

Public health officials consider laboratory, epidemiological, clinical and vital records evidence. Tests that detect antigens or antibodies are considered evidence towards a “probable” case, but are not sufficient on their own, according to the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.​
 
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There needs to be a proper shutdown in the first place, which the US never had. A full month of fully-enforced shelter in place, truly essential shopping and work only with masks on at all times, and prohibitively high fines for noncompliance. It’s far too big and diverse a country for crucial public health measures to be left up to the individual.
that’s what Barbados did . 24 hour curfew at first . I think they had less than 100 cases with about 7 deaths. Barbados is a small island and numbers like the USA has would have wiped out the population.
 
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that’s what Barbados did . 24 hour curfew at first . I think they had less than 100 cases with about 7 deaths. Barbados is a small island and numbers like the USA has would have wiped out the population.

Places like Barbados have more competent government responses than us.

Heaven help us.
 
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the hopeful win would be for the socialist wanting to take back the presidency and senate and holding onto the house.
I think a bigger electoral boost for the Democrats would be just letting Trump continue to sink himself. It’s not the Democrats that have been in charge of the national response to COVID this whole time.
 
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I ignored it because it didn't show what you were claiming.
Or you could, y'know, tell me why you don't think it supports my point. That's how a discussion works. You ask me for evidence, I give you evidence, we discuss the evidence. Here's the data. What does it show?
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the hopeful win would be for the socialist wanting to take back the presidency and senate and holding onto the house.
I think wins by Democratic candidates are more likely than a Socialist Party candidate winning a national race, but who knows, it has been a weird year.
 
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I think a bigger electoral boost for the Democrats would be just letting Trump continue to sink himself. It’s not the Democrats that have been in charge of the national response to COVID this whole time.
Tell that to the blue mayors and governors....oops, you forgot about them.
 
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Or you could, y'know, tell me why you don't think it supports my point. That's how a discussion works. You ask me for evidence, I give you evidence, we discuss the evidence. Here's the data. What does it show?
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I see mostly blue under your line.
I think wins by Democratic candidates are more likely than a Socialist Party candidate winning a national race, but who knows, it has been a weird year.
Biden is a socialist...The guys pulling his puppet strings most certainly are...many lean marxist.
 
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