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This article (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/washington-states-actual-coronavirus-death-toll-may-be-higher-than-current-tallies-health-officia
by bialczabub 6y ago
This article (https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/washington-states-actual-coronavirus-death-toll-may-be-higher-than-current-tallies-health-officials-say/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/washington-...) claims "about five" deaths from gunshot wounds to people who tested positive for COVID-19. That's of the 1,055 total the state is claiming, or ~0.5%.
The headline seems to imply that Washington is inflating its COVID death statistics, but the article seems more interested in proving that point than examining the data in good faith, which isn't surprising given that this is a conservative think tank founded by someone who publicly warned during the Obama administration that Americans are on the verge of losing their liberties to the government.
- im3w1l 6y agoThey are bringing up the most obvious cases of misclassification to prove a point. There are surely also less obvious ones, meaning the total is more than 0.5%.
- burgerzzz 6y agoWell considering the spying on US citizens that was expanded during Obama’s tenure, perhaps he was right?
- bobdole12345 6y agoUh, did you forget Darth Cheney? You don't blame the kid who picked up the hammer for the destruction caused by the first kid who forged the hammer in Mount Doom, painstakingly carried it into the china store from Mordor, and waited for an excuse to start smashing china. But yeah, that hammer is totally on Obama.