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Public isn't = publicized. I don't speak for others, but I'm sure we're all

glad you did the heavy lifting for the "less curious" of us. It's not atypical of you to think you're being given a "hard time" if someone doesn't agree with you, but I hadn't intended to call you out, rather I was asking - or thought I was asking a forum, not you specifically - why the relevance of the low percentage of this category of COVID deaths doesn't raise more open, widely covered questions.

I don't think this chunk of data is "new" either (that wasn't my point), but now attention paid to it is. It's entirely possible it could be a great deal more relevant to how policy decisions are being made. CDC has this data, which is relevant science, yet the people who shutter businesses and restrict activities do not by any observable measure appear to be incorporating this factoid we're discussing into how they act.

Remember, these decision makers are the same ones who poured COVID patients into nursing homes and we all know the result of this poor, almost criminal, lack of regard for the very science they claim to be the sole followers of. The same people who, for example, in North Carolina close down bowling alleys but leave strip clubs open, to cite one of numerous ill-conceived and idiotic policies.

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Funny - new CDC data report this week hasn’t gotten much -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 4:30PM

I guess we can ignore every disease then, under the guise of "advanced age" -- HWA 08/31/2020 09:40AM

To date, about 11,000 Americans have died soley from covid. -- MikeVT85 08/31/2020 12:42AM

That's what this entire topic is about and you posted yet another -- AbsolutVT03 08/31/2020 12:33PM

I read it. It didn't say or imply what you're saying.** -- ACCWatcher 08/31/2020 8:13PM

I think you responded to the wrong post. I’m -- AbsolutVT03 08/31/2020 10:28PM

Deaths by age group -- HokieBoy 08/30/2020 8:19PM

This is really the story that has been completely ignored -- GobblerCE 08/30/2020 10:25PM

To be fair -- it's just not about deaths. -- HokieBoy 08/31/2020 09:30AM

That must mean 18.7% are ages 40-64... ** -- 4dhokies 08/30/2020 8:28PM

50-64 is 15.7% -- HokieBoy 08/30/2020 9:32PM

Doesn’t align with the agenda ** -- B777Fr8Dog 08/30/2020 8:05PM

Good data. Nursing home patients account for 40% of Covid deaths and .6% -- RoswellGAHokie 08/30/2020 7:10PM

How many were listed as COVID deaths which had nothing to do with C-19? -- EDGEMAN 08/30/2020 7:22PM

Just the opposite. There have been more deaths due to Covid than have -- BB Hokie 08/30/2020 8:06PM

Does it? Is cancer taking a break? Heart disease? Diabetes? ** -- RoswellGAHokie 08/30/2020 9:11PM

??? I'm not sure what you are arguing here. Of course none of those -- BB Hokie 08/30/2020 9:21PM

Lots of chronic conditions aren’t getting treated. -- RoswellGAHokie 08/30/2020 9:52PM

Excess deaths means over the average/expected deaths so things like cancer -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 9:20PM

This is an anecdote, but I have a friend whose mother works at a Tampa -- RoswellGAHokie 08/30/2020 7:32PM

But the actual data shows deaths falling after CMS raised the reimbursement -- lchoro 08/30/2020 9:09PM

So here's the thing... -- Beerman 08/30/2020 6:50PM

There's ample documentation that people with compromised health in a wide -- PhotoHokieNC 08/31/2020 07:03AM

That is correct -- Beerman 08/31/2020 08:52AM

I may have mistaken your original post as being linear and exclusive. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/31/2020 09:34AM

The thing is it's a partisan thing ** -- Brown Water 08/30/2020 7:13PM

Certainly -- Beerman 08/30/2020 7:15PM

Preaching to the choir ** -- Brown Water 08/30/2020 7:24PM

Respiratory virus leads to respiratory complications... stop the presses!!! ** -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 6:53PM

Excess deaths are over 200k this year in the US - that's due to Covid -- BB Hokie 08/30/2020 6:18PM

I will take the under for sure. -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 8:39PM

You are arguing that Covid killed *more* than 200k... -- BB Hokie 08/30/2020 8:45PM

Is it reasonable to think of Covid akin to BASF? -- Hokie Fiji 08/30/2020 6:40PM

BASF manufactured the COVID??? -- MP4VT2004 08/30/2020 7:14PM

I think that's a somewhat fair comparison. Lots of people who end up with -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 6:46PM

FYI this is also not a new CDC report. Use the internet archive and go -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 5:37PM

The data was updated this week. ** -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 5:40PM

It's updated every week. The wording is almost exactly the same. The link -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 5:44PM

So this loses relevancy in its sameness? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/30/2020 6:19PM

No it loses the "The CDC just put out a new report" nonsense. Or the idea -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 6:44PM

You’re ok with it actually never getting media coverage? -- PhotoHokieNC 08/30/2020 6:52PM

It is public. It has been for months. It's not "buried". It's right in -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 7:01PM

Public isn't = publicized. I don't speak for others, but I'm sure we're all -- PhotoHokieNC 08/31/2020 06:38AM

There's no "low percentage of this category of COVID deaths". They are all -- AbsolutVT03 08/31/2020 10:01AM

Is it being misrepresented or is it being fine-tuned? Ask yourself - -- PhotoHokieNC 08/31/2020 10:15AM

It is most definitely being misrepresented. People are pointing to it as -- AbsolutVT03 08/31/2020 12:26PM

You truly like parsing implications and misrepresentations out of my posts -- PhotoHokieNC 08/31/2020 12:37PM

Not attacking anything. Simply pointing out that your replies have very -- AbsolutVT03 08/31/2020 12:44PM

Oh here he comes Watch out boy he'll chew you up Oh here he comes -- PhotoHokieNC 08/31/2020 12:49PM

Thanks for proving my point! Also I’m not sure you understand the concept -- AbsolutVT03 08/31/2020 12:53PM

I think it loses its "newness". ** -- Hokie360 08/30/2020 6:28PM

Horrors! ** -- PhotoHokieNC 08/30/2020 6:34PM

Death rate, age, and comorbidity is constantly trumpeted on the anti media -- lchoro 08/30/2020 5:31PM

I listened to this on today walk. -- two91hokies 08/30/2020 5:23PM

I’ll check that out for sure. Always good to hear multiple view points on -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 5:40PM

Doesn’t mean what many think it does. It is not some gotcha or -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 5:20PM

You didn't know this already? ** -- Stork 08/30/2020 4:55PM

We I have always thought it was a virus that killed old people. -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 5:08PM

You're being rather intentionally obtuse here -- Beerman 08/30/2020 7:10PM

Well, everything I’ve read since practically Day 1 is people -- Stork 08/30/2020 5:13PM

I certainly don’t believe that. I find it amusing how some posters who -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 5:30PM

Trump is that you? ** -- 98Hokie 08/30/2020 7:48PM

You should take a look at the comorbidities listed. It doesn't have to be -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 5:41PM

It is significant statement. ** -- ColoVT82 08/30/2020 4:32PM

Only 2.6 pre existing conditions on average. -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 4:39PM

Because the conditions are related. -- lchoro 08/30/2020 5:35PM

Death is also related to the exact moment the heart stops beating. So why -- GreenvilleVT 08/30/2020 5:43PM

Now you're just being intentionally obtuse. ** -- AbsolutVT03 08/30/2020 5:44PM

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