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[Ree4]

What, exactly, is my party? I hate the GOP, but I hate the Democrats even more. I like Trump. I call it The Germ because that is what Trump called it. It is a subtle dig at Trump's second biggest weakness, which is that he needs to know when to shut the F up. But subtlety probably isn't your strong suit.

The party of Trump is your party. Glad to see Nick Saban leading the BLM march in Tuscaloosa. Heads are exploding in Alabama.


Just check out the comments! Amazing.

 

[CP87]

The CDC is reporting that 94 percent of all Covid deaths had other medical complexities as contributing factors. So, of the 6 million known infections, the death rate is roughly 3 percent. The death rate for a person with no known medical complexities is .0018. I think we can all agree that the known positive infection rate is much higher than the actual rate which in turn would lower the death rates. Covid is a clear example of the weak minded being indoctrinated into a new reliance on government to be our savior.

The real infection taking place is liberal thought, and in my opinion it is much more deadly than COVID, just look to our most sacred institutions being burned to the ground.

I have stayed away from this site for probably a month or better, it doesn't do much for my mood. However, I was curious what people were thinking about the possibility of a B1G season occurring. Gotta say, I was shocked to see that people are still rallying for the "COVID as hoax" theory. Probably not worth any of our time for me to try to debunk, but here goes...

All of this crap about the CDC trying to juke the COVID stats for political purposes is beyond ridiculous, and it primarily comes from people who have no idea what a comorbidity is, what a death certificate contains, or how epidemiologists go about determining cause of death from death certificates. But you know what, we can ignore all of that. Let's just look at how many people are dying, from ANY CAUSE.

The CDC provides observed number of deaths (both nationally and by state), and we can compare these to EXPECTED NUMBER OF DEATHS, which is known with pretty good certainty from powerful models supplied by decades of data. We can visualize this below:


The blue line represents how many weekly deaths are expected each week.

The orange line represent the upper bounds (i.e. 95% confidence interval) of the expected deaths. That is, if the observed deaths goes above the orange line, there is less than a 5% chance that it is just a random blip, and hence the scientific community assumes that it is a significant difference.

The gray line represents the observed deaths for every week from the beginning of 2017 until mid-August 2020.

You can see that during the '17-'18 flu season (a particularly nasty one), there was a significant increase in the number of weekly deaths above expectations. Then things were hunky dory until late-March/early-April of 2020. Since then, the number of deaths has skyrocketed above the expected number. This is just total deaths, we don't need to worry about any reporting shenanigans (unless you think the political left is just making up death or executing American citizens).

Can you think of anything that has changed in the US since late March? Anything that could possibly explain these excess deaths? Not sure about you, but I think I will blame most of them on BLM protests and civic unrest in large metro areas with Democratic mayors.
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Back to the comorbidities thing: yes. 94% of people who die with COVID listed on their death certificate had 1 or more comorbidities (with an average of 2.6). The Politico link that Rob included does a nice job of explaining why this absolutely DOES NOT mean that only 6% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate actually died of COVID-19. In fact, it is estimated that COVID-19 was the primary cause of death in 92% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate, and there is some evidence that we are actually failing to capture a large number of the COVID deaths (see the article Rob linked for more information). So why is COVID the primary cause of death in 92% of the COVID-listed cases instead of 100%; the democrats are inflating the numbers by 8% for political gain! Actually no, epidemiologists are just relying on something known as "any-mention" mortality, which they have done for decades in situations were a confluence of comordidities make it challenging to determine primary cause. See information below about CVD for more details.

Guess what? 86% of the people who die from cancer have at least 1 comorbidity. So great news, we thought that roughly 600,000 people per year died from cancer, turns out we can reduce that number by 86%: only 84,000. We're saving lives here!

What about cardiovascular disease? I can't find analogous data showing % of CVD deaths associated with at least 1 comorbidity, but I would guess it is close to 100%. From this article:

Mortality data are generally presented according to the underlying cause of death. “Any-mention” mortality means that the condition was nominally selected as the underlying cause or was otherwise mentioned on the death certificate. For many deaths classified as attributable to CVD, selection of the single most likely underlying cause can be difficult when several major comorbidities are present, as is often the case in the elderly population.
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Holy crap, the AHA is juking CVD death stats for political purposes! Oh, wait, as I mentioned above, they are just doing what epidemiologists always do in situations where there is a confluence of comorbidities and some ambiguity in determining exact cause of death.

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Sorry for the tone, but this disinformation crap is depressing and dangerous.

 

[HuckFinn]

I have stayed away from this site for probably a month or better, it doesn't do much for my mood. However, I was curious what people were thinking about the possibility of a B1G season occurring. Gotta say, I was shocked to see that people are still rallying for the "COVID as hoax" theory. Probably not worth any of our time for me to try to debunk, but here goes...

All of this crap about the CDC trying to juke the COVID stats for political purposes is beyond ridiculous, and it primarily comes from people who have no idea what a comorbidity is, what a death certificate contains, or how epidemiologists go about determining cause of death from death certificates. But you know what, we can ignore all of that. Let's just look at how many people are dying, from ANY CAUSE.

The CDC provides observed number of deaths (both nationally and by state), and we can compare these to EXPECTED NUMBER OF DEATHS, which is known with pretty good certainty from powerful models supplied by decades of data. We can visualize this below:
View attachment 6872

The blue line represents how many weekly deaths are expected each week.

The orange line represent the upper bounds (i.e. 95% confidence interval) of the expected deaths. That is, if the observed deaths goes above the orange line, there is less than a 5% chance that it is just a random blip, and hence the scientific community assumes that it is a significant difference.

The gray line represents the observed deaths for every week from the beginning of 2017 until mid-August 2020.

You can see that during the '17-'18 flu season (a particularly nasty one), there was a significant increase in the number of weekly deaths above expectations. Then things were hunky dory until late-March/early-April of 2020. Since then, the number of deaths has skyrocketed above the expected number. This is just total deaths, we don't need to worry about any reporting shenanigans (unless you think the political left is just making up death or executing American citizens).

Can you think of anything that has changed in the US since late March? Anything that could possibly explain these excess deaths? Not sure about you, but I think I will blame most of them on BLM protests and civic unrest in large metro areas with Democratic mayors.
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Back to the comorbidities thing: yes. 94% of people who die with COVID listed on their death certificate had 1 or more comorbidities (with an average of 2.6). The Politico link that Rob included does a nice job of explaining why this absolutely DOES NOT mean that only 6% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate actually died of COVID-19. In fact, it is estimated that COVID-19 was the primary cause of death in 92% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate, and there is some evidence that we are actually failing to capture a large number of the COVID deaths (see the article Rob linked for more information). So why is COVID the primary cause of death in 92% of the COVID-listed cases instead of 100%; the democrats are inflating the numbers by 8% for political gain! Actually no, epidemiologists are just relying on something known as "any-mention" mortality, which they have done for decades in situations were a confluence of comordidities make it challenging to determine primary cause. See information below about CVD for more details.

Guess what? 86% of the people who die from cancer have at least 1 comorbidity. So great news, we thought that roughly 600,000 people per year died from cancer, turns out we can reduce that number by 86%: only 84,000. We're saving lives here!

What about cardiovascular disease? I can't find analogous data showing % of CVD deaths associated with at least 1 comorbidity, but I would guess it is close to 100%. From this article:

Mortality data are generally presented according to the underlying cause of death. “Any-mention” mortality means that the condition was nominally selected as the underlying cause or was otherwise mentioned on the death certificate. For many deaths classified as attributable to CVD, selection of the single most likely underlying cause can be difficult when several major comorbidities are present, as is often the case in the elderly population.
​

Holy crap, the AHA is juking CVD death stats for political purposes! Oh, wait, as I mentioned above, they are just doing what epidemiologists always do in situations where there is a confluence of comorbidities and some ambiguity in determining exact cause of death.

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Sorry for the tone, but this disinformation crap is depressing and dangerous.

Stop making sense! You are confusing the tin foil hat people on Face Book and Hawkeye Nation. You should be ashamed!

 

[HawkGold]

Most politics are extreme right now.

The HN board is free. There are other options as well.

Right now extreme or extreme right?

 

[HawkGold]

I have stayed away from this site for probably a month or better, it doesn't do much for my mood. However, I was curious what people were thinking about the possibility of a B1G season occurring. Gotta say, I was shocked to see that people are still rallying for the "COVID as hoax" theory. Probably not worth any of our time for me to try to debunk, but here goes...

All of this crap about the CDC trying to juke the COVID stats for political purposes is beyond ridiculous, and it primarily comes from people who have no idea what a comorbidity is, what a death certificate contains, or how epidemiologists go about determining cause of death from death certificates. But you know what, we can ignore all of that. Let's just look at how many people are dying, from ANY CAUSE.

The CDC provides observed number of deaths (both nationally and by state), and we can compare these to EXPECTED NUMBER OF DEATHS, which is known with pretty good certainty from powerful models supplied by decades of data. We can visualize this below:
View attachment 6872

The blue line represents how many weekly deaths are expected each week.

The orange line represent the upper bounds (i.e. 95% confidence interval) of the expected deaths. That is, if the observed deaths goes above the orange line, there is less than a 5% chance that it is just a random blip, and hence the scientific community assumes that it is a significant difference.

The gray line represents the observed deaths for every week from the beginning of 2017 until mid-August 2020.

You can see that during the '17-'18 flu season (a particularly nasty one), there was a significant increase in the number of weekly deaths above expectations. Then things were hunky dory until late-March/early-April of 2020. Since then, the number of deaths has skyrocketed above the expected number. This is just total deaths, we don't need to worry about any reporting shenanigans (unless you think the political left is just making up death or executing American citizens).

Can you think of anything that has changed in the US since late March? Anything that could possibly explain these excess deaths? Not sure about you, but I think I will blame most of them on BLM protests and civic unrest in large metro areas with Democratic mayors.
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Back to the comorbidities thing: yes. 94% of people who die with COVID listed on their death certificate had 1 or more comorbidities (with an average of 2.6). The Politico link that Rob included does a nice job of explaining why this absolutely DOES NOT mean that only 6% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate actually died of COVID-19. In fact, it is estimated that COVID-19 was the primary cause of death in 92% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate, and there is some evidence that we are actually failing to capture a large number of the COVID deaths (see the article Rob linked for more information). So why is COVID the primary cause of death in 92% of the COVID-listed cases instead of 100%; the democrats are inflating the numbers by 8% for political gain! Actually no, epidemiologists are just relying on something known as "any-mention" mortality, which they have done for decades in situations were a confluence of comordidities make it challenging to determine primary cause. See information below about CVD for more details.

Guess what? 86% of the people who die from cancer have at least 1 comorbidity. So great news, we thought that roughly 600,000 people per year died from cancer, turns out we can reduce that number by 86%: only 84,000. We're saving lives here!

What about cardiovascular disease? I can't find analogous data showing % of CVD deaths associated with at least 1 comorbidity, but I would guess it is close to 100%. From this article:

Mortality data are generally presented according to the underlying cause of death. “Any-mention” mortality means that the condition was nominally selected as the underlying cause or was otherwise mentioned on the death certificate. For many deaths classified as attributable to CVD, selection of the single most likely underlying cause can be difficult when several major comorbidities are present, as is often the case in the elderly population.
​

Holy crap, the AHA is juking CVD death stats for political purposes! Oh, wait, as I mentioned above, they are just doing what epidemiologists always do in situations where there is a confluence of comorbidities and some ambiguity in determining exact cause of death.

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Sorry for the tone, but this disinformation crap is depressing and dangerous.

You are requiring thinking.

 

[Ree4]

I have stayed away from this site for probably a month or better, it doesn't do much for my mood. However, I was curious what people were thinking about the possibility of a B1G season occurring. Gotta say, I was shocked to see that people are still rallying for the "COVID as hoax" theory. Probably not worth any of our time for me to try to debunk, but here goes...

All of this crap about the CDC trying to juke the COVID stats for political purposes is beyond ridiculous, and it primarily comes from people who have no idea what a comorbidity is, what a death certificate contains, or how epidemiologists go about determining cause of death from death certificates. But you know what, we can ignore all of that. Let's just look at how many people are dying, from ANY CAUSE.

The CDC provides observed number of deaths (both nationally and by state), and we can compare these to EXPECTED NUMBER OF DEATHS, which is known with pretty good certainty from powerful models supplied by decades of data. We can visualize this below:
View attachment 6872

The blue line represents how many weekly deaths are expected each week.

The orange line represent the upper bounds (i.e. 95% confidence interval) of the expected deaths. That is, if the observed deaths goes above the orange line, there is less than a 5% chance that it is just a random blip, and hence the scientific community assumes that it is a significant difference.

The gray line represents the observed deaths for every week from the beginning of 2017 until mid-August 2020.

You can see that during the '17-'18 flu season (a particularly nasty one), there was a significant increase in the number of weekly deaths above expectations. Then things were hunky dory until late-March/early-April of 2020. Since then, the number of deaths has skyrocketed above the expected number. This is just total deaths, we don't need to worry about any reporting shenanigans (unless you think the political left is just making up death or executing American citizens).

Can you think of anything that has changed in the US since late March? Anything that could possibly explain these excess deaths? Not sure about you, but I think I will blame most of them on BLM protests and civic unrest in large metro areas with Democratic mayors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Back to the comorbidities thing: yes. 94% of people who die with COVID listed on their death certificate had 1 or more comorbidities (with an average of 2.6). The Politico link that Rob included does a nice job of explaining why this absolutely DOES NOT mean that only 6% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate actually died of COVID-19. In fact, it is estimated that COVID-19 was the primary cause of death in 92% of the deaths with COVID-19 listed on the death certificate, and there is some evidence that we are actually failing to capture a large number of the COVID deaths (see the article Rob linked for more information). So why is COVID the primary cause of death in 92% of the COVID-listed cases instead of 100%; the democrats are inflating the numbers by 8% for political gain! Actually no, epidemiologists are just relying on something known as "any-mention" mortality, which they have done for decades in situations were a confluence of comordidities make it challenging to determine primary cause. See information below about CVD for more details.

Guess what? 86% of the people who die from cancer have at least 1 comorbidity. So great news, we thought that roughly 600,000 people per year died from cancer, turns out we can reduce that number by 86%: only 84,000. We're saving lives here!

What about cardiovascular disease? I can't find analogous data showing % of CVD deaths associated with at least 1 comorbidity, but I would guess it is close to 100%. From this article:

Mortality data are generally presented according to the underlying cause of death. “Any-mention” mortality means that the condition was nominally selected as the underlying cause or was otherwise mentioned on the death certificate. For many deaths classified as attributable to CVD, selection of the single most likely underlying cause can be difficult when several major comorbidities are present, as is often the case in the elderly population.
​

Holy crap, the AHA is juking CVD death stats for political purposes! Oh, wait, as I mentioned above, they are just doing what epidemiologists always do in situations where there is a confluence of comorbidities and some ambiguity in determining exact cause of death.

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Sorry for the tone, but this disinformation crap is depressing and dangerous.

We missed you

 

[RobHowe]