Maintain proper perspective

[sd_shooter]

I'll just leave this here

[VictorFranko]

Can you provide a link to the source of the chart?
It does say 2016 on the chart. Is this chart cherry-picking and comparing four months of 2020 to year end statistics of 2016?

To maintain real proper perspective, the chart should only reflect communicable diseases.

[HibikiR]

Should be Apples to Apples (i.e. limited to the same time frame)

[tradecraft]

~3 months of COVID vs full year of everything else. What sort of idiot would.....

[hunterb]

~3 months of COVID vs full year of everything else. What sort of idiot would.....

LOL this. Chart is dumb.

[Aces and 8s]

Well, this is definitely not maintaining PROPER perspective and is anothet disingenuous post. Starting to think OP isn't all that smart because I don't think anyone is intentionally this misleading, well, aside from Liberals or the MSM.

[joe_gman]

Looking at perspective

Deaths from Jan 1- April 12 with estimated data points from chart above.

Suicides would be about 12,070 deaths to date given a rate of 118 per day.
Kidney disease - 13,586 deaths
Flu/ Pneumonia - 15,585 deaths
Diabetes - 21,586 deaths
Covid-19 - 21,686 deaths
Alzheimer's - 26,396 deaths

Best case scenario in the United States for Covid-19 deaths are estimated to be about 60,000 by August and that is with current SIP protocols.
We really don't know how bad this can be. We may be lucky with less than 80,000 Covid-19 deaths in the US for the entire 2020 year. It may end up over 200,000. That chart is absolute garbage in regards to perspective.

[Marauder2003]

Surprised there was not a line labeled Guns.

[orangeglo]

~3 months of COVID vs full year of everything else. What sort of idiot would.....

It has been ~45 days since the first COVID-19 death in the US.

22,105 have died in the last 45 days.
22,055 have died in the last 30 days.
19,513 have died in the last 14 days.
12,469 have died in the last 7 days.

Since the rates of deaths per day is changing rapidly I have added four COVID-19 death per day values to illustrate the rate trend towards the present.

I don't think this type of chart is particularly useful, but it's one way of looking at it.



Values are from the time of writing this and are approximations.

[joe_gman]

Surprised there was not a line labeled Guns.

It would be about 4,436 non-suicide Firearm related deaths to date or about 15,720 for 2016.

[The War Wagon]

I'll just leave this here

Hear, hear!!!

I don't think this type of chart is particularly useful, but it's one way of looking at it.

It's not. MOST deaths in HI the first week of December, 1941, were a result of Japanese bullets & bombs.

Most people who died in Vegas the first week of October 2017, died from the balcony shooter's (Stephen Paddock) bullets.

Narrow down the time frame enough, and you can attribute one hour, one day, one week, one month, or one decade's deaths, to all manner of ABNORMAL circumstances.

[sd_shooter]

~3 months of COVID vs full year of everything else. What sort of idiot would.....

LOL this. Chart is dumb.

Well, this is definitely not maintaining PROPER perspective and is anothet disingenuous post. Starting to think OP isn't all that smart because I don't think anyone is intentionally this misleading, well, aside from Liberals or the MSM.

Well we only have 2-3 months of Covid data. We'll take another look in a year to see where we stand. It doesn't make the chart "dumb", it's just not complete. However it is as complete as it can be.

So make yourself feel at ease just remove the Covid from it entirely. For example this one:
(Latest available link from our very own CDC, should be 'official' enough for you)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

The point is we've done something completely unprecedented: Stop the economy over a bug that is doing relatively little harm.

Yes, the virus is real. True, we don't know much about it. No, there's no vaccine. Yes, this epidemic would have caused a lot of harm to the economy.

Clearly this is not about "saving lives." People die anyway for a variety of reasons. We're also voluntarily killing people to the tune 600k-700k per year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States

Don't get caught up in minutiae.

[boris badinov]

Other than Influenza, how many of the other causes of death are contagious?
(CDC toll for 2019-2020 influenza season is only 24,000 dead since )

Also, since we're barely over 2 months since the first US CoVid death (Feb 29th), are all of the other leading causes of death measured in < 2 month intervals?

Just sayin'

[sd_shooter]

Other than Influenza, how many of the other causes of death are contagious?
(CDC toll for 2019-2020 influenza season is only 24,000 dead since )

Also, since we're barely over 2 months since the first US CoVid death (Feb 29th), are all of the other leading causes of death measured in < 2 month intervals?

Just sayin'

Per the WHO, dozens:

https://www.who.int/topics/infectious_diseases/factsheets/en/

My own prediction is that after this year covid will fade into the background and become yet another "flu season" bug we deal with annually.

A big one is still AIDS.

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

2018: 1.7M new cases, 770k deaths

The kind of "social distancing" that would stop AIDS: stop sleeping around. (Bet Dr Fauci would never recommend this however, it's way too extreme)

[zhyla]

OP could get a job at an anti-gun think tank with these data manipulation skills.

COVID-19 will likely beat out diabetes this year. Let THAT sink in for a bit.