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Old 05-15-2021, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by tuccillo View Post
Here are the facts. The number of deaths in calendar year 2020 are still provisional numbers. However, the CDC is estimating the number of excess deaths for calendar year 2020 at over 300K. Excess deaths is the number of deaths over what is expected. The 500K number (of COVID deaths) includes 4-5 months in 2021so it is obviously in excess of the calendar year numbers.
That does not prove anything. "excess deaths" means more total deaths than would be normally expected. It does NOT take into account reductions in deaths that would have accused without COVID.

Sorry, that is not evidence.