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There were around 51000 deaths in New York from March 2020 to March 2021. For a population of 8.258 million that gives a rate of one death per day per 59101 peo

by poorts 2y ago

There were around 51000 deaths in New York from March 2020 to March 2021. For a population of 8.258 million that gives a rate of one death per day per 59101 people. The largest apartment building I found in NYC is London Terrace with 1700 apartments which would need 35 people per apartment to give 59101 people. Deaths were presumably skewed towards the oldest and sickest, and probably correlated with poverty, so if you stayed in a lower-income apartment building with a lot of old people who were likely close to death, then it could be 1 or 2 ambulances per day to take people away "never to be seen again", but it seems improbable. I stay in a European country which isn't particularly known for being healthy, and I don't know anyone who died of or even with covid. I felt that there was some terrible science coming from all directions in the pandemic years, but to me some of the worst propaganda-fu was coming from the government and traditional media.

rhelz 1y ago
What you are missing in your analysis is that New Yorkers don’t just let stuff like this happen for weeks and weeks. We social distanced, we wore our masks, and the ambulances stopped coming. It’s not like ambulances came every day for a year and a half—no we fixed the problem and stood slack-jawed while the rest fo the country just let people keep dying.
- poorts 1y ago
  At the peak there were around 600 deaths per day, I believe a lot of those were in care homes, but even if not that's less than 1 in 12000 people per day, so 1 or 2 ambulances per day to a single apartment building still feels like an exaggeration to me, almost like propaganda... I also guess it would be hard to accredit anything to the vaccines as you originally asserted, if it was actually all down to plucky New Yorkers mask wearing and social distancing https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109728/coronavirus-deaths-by-date-new-york-city/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109728/coronavirus-deat...

by poorts 2y ago

rhelz 1y ago

What you are missing in your analysis is that New Yorkers don’t just let stuff like this happen for weeks and weeks. We social distanced, we wore our masks, and the ambulances stopped coming. It’s not like ambulances came every day for a year and a half—no we fixed the problem and stood slack-jawed while the rest fo the country just let people keep dying.

poorts 1y ago
At the peak there were around 600 deaths per day, I believe a lot of those were in care homes, but even if not that's less than 1 in 12000 people per day, so 1 or 2 ambulances per day to a single apartment building still feels like an exaggeration to me, almost like propaganda... I also guess it would be hard to accredit anything to the vaccines as you originally asserted, if it was actually all down to plucky New Yorkers mask wearing and social distancing https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109728/coronavirus-deaths-by-date-new-york-city/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109728/coronavirus-deat...