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it was the worst tracking experience of my live.. worse than March 2013. You have to remember it was Christmas and up until 12/24 Baltimore was forecast to get 6-10 inches. It turned out to be snow tv for me...

When are these republicans gonna learn. Mask holes.. Covidiots.. oh wait, he died of a Brain Aneurism..

and 12/26/2010.. which featured big snow to our south and northeast

Great GEFS run. Lots of SLP clustered over NC/ VA border (north of the mean). Compared to the previous runs looks like it is honing in on a solution:

I like the cluster of LP on this map. Seems to trending in the right direction for us. with a blocking pattern setting up to our north.. I am completely fine with this

neither does COVID19.. but you know what does? Nursing home neglect/ isolation.

This is so factual .. In 2018 during the height of the bad flu season California experienced 60285 total deaths during week 1-10 (thats January - March 2018). During a 10 week period in in 2020 from November to December California experienced 56423 deaths.

I love it when I post good news about the corona virus.. like.. Hey.. not as many people died as we expected.. and people are like "shut up you liar.. so many people died.. its so sad and tragic.. people are dying everywhere.. stop lying"

btw... I just drove to Lancaster and home to look at a puppy and it averaged 34 and heavy rain the entire trip... we do indeed do 34 and heavy rain better than any one in the country.

oh crap... I just woke up.. I am pretty sure I drunk posted this morning all over the forum. Thanks @mappy for the cleanup

you have to subtract the "dying with covid" as opposed to "dying from covid".. after that you will get to around 0.57%

cpap machines

LOL.. I am a government employee

Mine kinda do.. considering I am the software engineer... so for me everything that they talk about for weeks.. eventually winds up on my plate to actually do..

This is the banter page.. so isnt this the place for that stuff?

I cant wait til the popcorn maker at my local movie theatre takes the place of the useless project manager that joins my daily status calls

no words

HOLY F... 4000 LESS people have died in the last 10 weeks in California than died during the first 10 weeks of the flu season of 2018. This shit is being manufactured on Social Media. I HAVE NO WORDS Except the ones above grounded in facts and evidence

wow... I noticed that Corona Virus was a real headline in the news in California.. so I decided to run the excess death death data on 2018 compared to 2020 for just the state of California: { season2017_2018: 60285, season2019_2020: 56423 } WHAT????

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Blame it on the "new warm background state".. lol.. the one that features -80 degree temps and 1020 highs across siberia

I would argue it is not small.. every person I talk to about Corona Virus, I ask them one question.. "do you know any one who died of it" And almost invariably the answer is "you know its weird.. but I dont".. but I do know people who have died from collateral damage. I gave the two examples above about my friends mom who died of nursing home neglect and my tenant who relapsed and drank himself to death in isolation. But I forgot to tell you perhaps the most eye opening case of all.. the other day I was getting a ride home in the courtesy shuttle from my car dealership and I started talking to the driver about the "pandemic" and I asked him the same question.. He said yes.. his wife, after working 30 years as an RN in an Orthopeadic Surgery facility was laid off from her job. About a month later she fell in to a deep depression, became addicted to opiates and overdosed. Think about that for minute..

The US saw excess mortality that was indeed quite alarming in the second quarter of 2020. We had several weeks that were over 75,000 deaths per week. This was unprecedented and confirmed exactly what we were being warned about. But as the year went on, something weird happened. The number of corona virus cases sky rocketed while the weekly mortality held steady. And as demonstrated by the CDC flu and mortality tracking data, the Corona virus in the second half of 2020, looked more like a bad flu season than the big bad pandemic it was made out to to be. What happened you may ask? A lot of people point to the "feel good" justifications for this: we are getting better at treating it younger people are being infected masks are decreasing viral load, leading to more asymptomatic cases, in effect making infections act more like inoculations. Thats great and all, but you need only look a little closer to find out what really happened. In the spring of 2020 the vast majority of the excess mortality occurred here in the north east. Much of it was focused on the nursing homes and palliative care facilities. When panic set in, the elderly were immediately ordered to their rooms where they were isolated from care takers and forced to give up on daily activities. Nursing home neglect, acting as the "tipping point" in the already fragile system, led to a systemic emergency where patients (in mass) developed many complications including blood clotting and worsening cardiovascular disease. When these patients did arrive in the ICU, if there blood oxygen fell below a certain point, the "one size fits all policy" said: put them in an induced coma put the room under negative pressure put them on a feeding tube and run the tubes out of the room to limit exposure to staff if they crash.. let them die.. again to reduce exposure Hospital bureaucrats didn't realize that an immediate result of placing people in mass in medically induced comas was organ failure.. specifically kidney failure. Many hospitals didnt have enough dialysis machines to keep up and many died waiting for treatment. Today, COVID-19 patients are treated with steroids, put on cpap machines and kept in the hospital overnight for observation And thats the difference. When the doctors were allowed to use their judgement and years of experience to attack a problem in a sensible way, common sense solutions prevailed.

here are my numbers for 2020.. these include the updates you are talking about: weekNumber totalDeaths 40 57,667 41 59,097 42 57,489 43 58,833 44 59,659 45 62,697 46 63,321 47 63,941 48 62,063 49 57,807 but the fact that we are even comparing this: Total Deaths: 10 weeks in 2018 - January - March: 614,497 10 weeks in 2020 - October - December: 602,574 These numbers are 100% complete for both years. is ridiculous... Given the response.. There should be no comparison.

@OSUmetstud I spent 5 years at Centers For Medicare and Medicaid as a Software Engineer and Data Architect. I know how to analyze health care data. I have been looking at this data for the last 9 months every day.. I have multiple programs that I run on a daily basis to provide summaries. The crude death numbers dont lie.