Absolute horseshit.
We are having approximately DOUBLE the number of deaths due to illness we would normally expect in the 8 month period from start of March until now.
Originally Posted by Kinkster90210
Hey Kinkster, quit stealing my words. "Horseshit" is mine. I already said this was horseshit in another thread:
Any of the public health experts at Johns Hopkins would call this article horseshit, because that's what it is. The article is from the Johns Hopkins student newsletter. A student describes a webinar put on by a teacher in applied economics at Johns Hopkins. The reason I call her a "teacher" is because on the University's web site there's no indication she's a tenure track professor.
Take a look at the excess deaths page on the CDC web site:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/c...ess_deaths.htm
If you go about halfway down the page you'll see a graph, "weekly number of deaths (from all causes)" going back to January, 2017. Ignore the orange line and the red crosses and concentrate on the blue bars, which are the number of weekly deaths. If you look at this on a laptop (it may be hard to see on a handphone) you'll see there have been a lot more deaths in the USA, from all causes, since March 15, 2020, than there were in previous years. What's causing this? It damn well better be Covid because if it's not, if the cause is something we don't know about, we're in a heap of trouble.
Originally Posted by Tiny
In fact, now even the Johns Hopkins student newsletter where the article appeared says it's horseshit:
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/articl...7NmUjKD7eutOnk