"...You’d think by now our rulers would stop the anemic way they censor what they consider dangerous information.
Their blundering attempts only highlight what they want to hide.
It’s particularly silly with coronadoom censorship.
It’s particularly silly with coronadoom censorship.
Take the Johns Hopkins blog post “A closer look at U.S. deaths due to COVID-19” detailing some work by a lady named Briand.
It was up, it was circulated, then it was deemed dangerous and pulled down.
The Wayback Machine still has it, of course.
If it weren’t for the censorship, I wouldn’t have got the dozens and dozens of requests to look at it.
If it weren’t for the censorship, I wouldn’t have got the dozens and dozens of requests to look at it.
Now everybody is sure Johns Hopkins is hiding something.
...The reason it was censored it particularly stupid, too: “… it was brought to our attention that our coverage of Genevieve Briand’s presentation ‘COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data’ has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.”
...Funniest thing: they forgot, at least of this writing, to censor the YouTube video where Briand gives a talk.
Idiots.
...Two important words of caution.
...The reason it was censored it particularly stupid, too: “… it was brought to our attention that our coverage of Genevieve Briand’s presentation ‘COVID-19 Deaths: A Look at U.S. Data’ has been used to support dangerous inaccuracies that minimize the impact of the pandemic.”
...Funniest thing: they forgot, at least of this writing, to censor the YouTube video where Briand gives a talk.
Idiots.
...Two important words of caution.
- CDC and everybody else counts deaths “involving” coronadoom as fast as possible, but ordinary deaths can take weeks before they’re fully tallied. That means the percentages shown in later weeks are exaggerations: the denominators are too small. The shape will in the ballpark, though.
- Finally, even doom deaths come in slower than desired, so the drop off at the end of all these pictures is purely an artifact of late counting.
All cause deaths, those “involving” COVID, and flu + pneumonia.
In early summer CDC stopped separate counts of flu + pneumonia because, we suppose, of the difficulty telling these deaths from doom deaths...Read all!!
