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Originally Posted by GoodLife
Sounds scary doesn't it? But it's a flat out lie meant to scare you. Panic Porn
That's the headline the Orlando Sentinel went with today, and they opened the story with this.
Florida reported 120 new COVID-19 fatalities on Thursday — the single biggest daily increase — pushing the death toll past 4,000 and coming after weeks of exploding coronavirus cases across the state.
Florida reports 120 COVID-19 fatalities, its deadliest day of pandemic - Orlando Sentinel
Here is the graph they presented charting Florida deaths.
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Wow...very scary, deaths are rising must be that surge of new cases.
The problem with the Sentinel's headline and chart is there were only 9 deaths from covid 19 on Thursday. The rest of the 120 deaths were from previous dates and to make a correct chart you have to backfill reported deaths to the date they actually happened. I am pretty sure they know this but 120 deaths in a single day just makes for great panic porn headlines.
Here is a correct chart with deaths listed on the actual day they happened.
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So far total of 135 deaths in July for Florida. This number will rise as deaths by actual date are backfilled. It takes time for deaths to be coded at hospitals, sent to the county, then the State and CDC.
It's unfortunate that we can't trust media reports on just about anything. |
Thanks for this useful post, which confirms what many of us know to be true. The MSM are the sycophants (lap dogs) of the state. It's analogous to the role Pravda played in soviet Russia, not long ago. The amazing thing is I used to observe the phenomenon when I was young and think, how sad that the Russian people are continually propagandized in this manner, never suspecting that one day, we would be subjected to far worse, i.e. from "all sides" at "all times". Some say that one significant difference is that the Russian people knew that they were being lied to.
Fred