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Everyone one is itching for an argument here. My point was meant to basically say
You do your thing and I'll do mine. If you want to quarantine that's your right. I just want to live free.
Take your time and drill through the numbers
Tabulated data on provisional COVID-19 deaths by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, and comorbidities. Also includes an index of state-level and county-level mortality data available for download.
www.cdc.gov
My last post on this thread. As Chuck Berry would say "live like you want to live, ain't nobody goin stop ya"
PPG1,
First off, I'm not itching for an argument, and I don't think anyone else here is either. I simply questioned the support for the 6%/31,635 numbers you stated.
I checked the site you provided, and it's one I refer to frequently. As you know, the tables show those who died by Covid-19 only, or with the accompanying conditions of influenza and/or pneumonia. To the layman, he data is somewhat lacking in that it doesn't explicitly state that the conditions of influenza and pneumonia were diagnosed concurrent with, or subsequent to, the diagnosis of Covid-19. In any event, the occurrence of influenza and pneumonia is not uncommon and are considered somewhat as a an by product of the Covid-19 diagnosis. Prior underlying conditions, or preexisting comorbidities, are purposefully not taken into consideration here as they could be numerous and coexisting and, as such, are not referenced in the data shown, including the gunshot wounds and motorcycle accidents you mentioned.
In checking the data, I did not find any reference to the 6%/31,635 numbers and realized that must have been referring to an earlier point in time. After a quick search, I found what I believe you're referring to, which occurred over 6 months ago. On 8/29/2020, a post on Facebook made the claims you referred to percentage wise, but with a much lower total number, a little over 9,000. A later FB post the same day upped the total to your number. On 8/30/2020, on a QAnon Twitter account, a tweet was sent referencing the claims made on the FB post. One of the recipients of that tweet, D. Trump, retweeted it to over 80 million Twitter followers before Twitter removed it. From there, Laura Ingraham picked up on it and millions more got on board. It was then like the proverbial snowball rolling downhill. Needless to say, the CDC clarified the data, and disputed the claims.
So, when you say "My point was meant to basically say You do your thing and I'll do mine", why didn't you do that originally and let it go instead of posting, at best, dubious and discredited information. I certainly would have respected that and I'm sure others would have also.