I can only assume that FortuneTeller lives in some typical U.S. rural red county where the population is around 23,000 people on average. So if 2 people per day on average die of Covid in this county then this implies a death toll 730 Covid deaths per year. This translates into yearly Covid death rate of 3.17% for the red rural county -- which is typical for many right-wing counties in the U.S. full of Trumpers coupled with poor healthcare systems. Let's compare to Los Angles County (CA) where the average number of daily deaths is 27 from Covid (over a long period of time). however the population is 9.83 million. This is 9,855 Covid deaths for the year -- which is 13.6 times that of some typical rural red county. However the yearly Covid death rate (9,855/9.83 million) in L.A. County is a mere 0.1% -- a much better rate than most typical red rural counties in the U.S.
It's not smart to assume. At least a lot of the time. The county I live in has MILLIONS of people in it. Trumpers get better health care then the poor Dems locked up in big cities. And if you don't believe my graph is from where I live... you can print it out and shove it where the sun don't shine. lol
There is not a single county in the U.S. with millions of people which has an average of only 2 people a day dying from Covid over time. The numbers for all are much greater. So you are shoveling bullshiat. Tell us what county you live in and I will prove it.
Once again -- Tell us what county you live in. I will be merrily demonstrate you are pushing complete fabrications. Keep in mind that the misinformation you push such as "No one is dying from Covid in the county I live in" and other nonsense is the problem. You and others are deliberately undermining the public health response in a global pandemic --- the type of disinformation you push has led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths around the globe. You should take a personal moment to reflect on this before shoveling more crap that harms others.
Vaccines and therapeutic medical treatments have been working very well for the past six months. Not discussed enough is Wastewater Surveillance...early this year there was only 20 sites and today there are +800 sites across the United States that can quickly detect Covid breakout areas...allowing local counties to better their targets for vaccination. Many states now have a county with zero Covid deaths or just 1 - 2 Covid deaths in the recent past few months...thanks to vaccines, improved therapeutic medical treatments and improved wastewater surveillance in counties so that they can encourage vaccination in low vaccinated areas that have Covid breakout areas. Anyone who says there are no Covid deaths in their county...it's a highly vaccinated county. Yet, if the same person says their county is not highly vaccinated...that would be not true because every county listed as having low vaccination rates in the United States has had at least one Covid death since the beginning of the summer. The four lowest vaccinated counties in the U.S. currently are Wyoming, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama. Wyoming has the only county that recently had no Covid deaths prior to the summer as a low-vaccinated county...it is the only exception (low vaccinated with no deaths). In contrast, as stated, many counties now have had no Covid deaths in the recent past few months because they are highly vaccinated but deaths in other diseases (Flu and RSV) have been increasing in the past few months. Currently, there's no vaccine for RSV and many people have been reluctant to take the FLU vaccine because of so much misinformation. Last of all, keep in mind that some states (e.g. Illinois) stop keeping statistics on Covid deaths since April. Thus, Illinois will show "no Covid deaths since April" when in fact they have had 9 Covid deaths since April. Two other states off the top of my head that no longer report their Covid deaths since April are Nebraska and Missouri. Yet, Missouri actual 7 day average > 50 Covid deaths but the state doesn't post that data on their Covid dashboard. https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/state/illinois wrbtrader
Thanks to Musk, Twitter is now a cesspool of anti-vax misinformation with no moderation. Coupled with this Musk has allowed the creation of "verified" anti-vax accounts for $8 which attempt to misrepresent themselves as official public health agencies, hospitals, and other trusted entities while boosting the anti-vax nonsense pushed from these accounts. ‘Verified’ anti-vax accounts proliferate as Twitter struggles to police content Platform’s paid verification system is being used to give sense of validity to accounts pushing health misinformation https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/21/twitter-anti-vax-health-misinformation As the troubled social media platform Twitter rolled out a paid verification system and laid off thousands of content moderators, health misinformation accounts on the social network began pushing their messages to a wider audience than ever. Under Elon Musk’s new direction for Twitter, several anti-vaccine accounts with tens of thousands of followers are now verified by paying $7.99 a month for Twitter Blue. Social media sites have long struggled with misleading information and content moderation. “There’s always been misinformation on the platforms,” said Sarah Barry, a vaccine advocate. Social media companies “only respond when something gets reported on, but they’re not actually proactively watching these groups”, she said. Some tools, like verification on Twitter, were meant to address impersonation on the platform by verifying the identities of government officials, public agencies, celebrities, journalists and others. But the tools are now being used to create a false sense of validity in order to spread dangerous falsehoods, including about vaccines. And groups on other platforms, like Facebook, continue to circumvent moderation by making minor changes to their names and the terms they use to promote anti-vaccine agendas. Verified accounts are frequently seen as reliable and trustworthy, and Twitter’s algorithm gives them a higher ranking in search results, replies and follow recommendations. “There’s a sense of legitimacy that comes with it,” said Barry. “By verifying this anti-vaccine account, they’re kind of verifying all of the misinformation it shares … it makes people think, ‘Oh, well, this is a verified account. This must be true.’” Before the change in leadership, Twitter was working to remove some accounts that spread anti-vaccine disinformation. But “now it looks like Twitter’s giving these accounts some legitimacy”, said Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist and dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. “It looks like now they’re going to move in the wrong direction, and actually help promote groups that are touting anti-vaccine, anti-science disinformation.” Users have already tested the new system by impersonating leading brands, like the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, leading to sharp dips in the company’s stock price and a call to re-evaluate insulin prices. The change in Twitter rules also means pay-to-play verified accounts may reach wider audiences – and, with large cuts on moderation, the accounts could continue spreading misleading and harmful information. Other anti-vax advocates were already legitimized by social media platforms. Robert F Kennedy Jr, one of the leading anti-vaccine propagandists, already had a verified account on Twitter before the new verification system, and international and regional chapters of his anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, are still active on Facebook. Facebook groups that are shut down for vaccine misinformation quickly return, and users dodge bans simply by changing the words they use. Facebook group admins, like Tiago Henrique Fernandes, reconstitute banned groups by using slightly different names, like DSN Official instead of Died Suddenly News, while keeping the same focus on anti-science messages. Fernandes coaches members not to write certain words that will be picked up by moderators, he explained on a recent show produced by Children’s Health Defense. Facebook’s algorithms look for keywords – like vaccine, shot and mRNA – to flag potential problems. “I basically train the members to … get away from that kind of language and get more into undercover, what I call ‘carnival talk’ – that way the algorithms can’t figure it out,” he said. Group members often refer to the vaccines as food – “cookie”, “peaches”, “cheeseburger” – or use purposeful misspellings, especially for purported side-effects like seizures (“see jures”) or cancer (“can sir”). One phrase that is picking up steam in the anti-vax world is “died suddenly”, which may be used in official media reports to talk about any sudden death, making it harder to moderate automatically. A Died Suddenly Twitter account, which was verified through the paid Twitter Blue program, plans to release a documentary on Monday that promotes vaccine misinformation. In a trailer for the film, 12 people are shown fainting or seizing, with the implication that they died from vaccines. In fact, at least four of the people shown did not die, and there were no links to the vaccines in their fainting episodes. The trailer also shows footage of Megyn Kelly, a SiriusXM host, talking about her sister’s heart attack. But the trailer doesn’t show Kelly’s discussion of their family history of heart attacks. “This is what the anti-vaccine activists do – they take real facts or factoids, but they use it to spin a false narrative,” Hotez said. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in excess deaths – mortality above previous years’ averages – because of Covid-19. It is an extremely dangerous illness, especially for those who aren’t yet vaccinated, which can cause lasting damage to cardiovascular health and other organ systems. “That’s how the virus works,” Hotez said. “That’s why we vaccinate – we vaccinate to prevent sudden deaths.” More than 300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 because they didn’t get vaccinated, according to one analysis – more than six times the number of Americans who died by gun violence in 2020, for instance. The vaccines to prevent severe disease and death from Covid-19 are extremely safe and effective, with millions of people around the world vaccinated. Even so, anti-vaccine propaganda has increased dramatically during the pandemic. Anti-vaccine activists “were prepared for a pandemic to happen”, and they were prepared to exploit it, Barry said. Verifying anti-vax accounts and elevating their messages on social networks further entrenches anti-vaccine ideology in our culture, Barry said. “Anything that further legitimizes them, the extent of their influence gets even worse, and people don’t even realize that the origin of it is anti-vax.”