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0 pointsAareyBaba5y ago0 comments

4000 deaths in Iowa.

127 per 100,000 people in Iowa http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states&...

Compared to

70 per 100,000 people in California. http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...

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So roughly one death for every thousand people in Iowa. That's sad, but the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.

triceratops5y ago

> the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.

Given that no single cause of death is more than 50% of deaths, this is true for any cause of death.

war10255y ago

The media went out of their way to make people think that Coronavirus was basically the only cause of death this year.

Combined with the bogus "positivity rate" that most lay people misinterpreted as the percentage of the population currently infected, this has been coordinated disinformation on a mass scale.

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kmm5y ago

Isn't that better than the US average?

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war10255y ago

So roughly one death for every thousand people in Iowa. That's sad, but the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.

triceratops5y ago

> the vast majority of people who died this past year died of something else.

Given that no single cause of death is more than 50% of deaths, this is true for any cause of death.

war10255y ago

The media went out of their way to make people think that Coronavirus was basically the only cause of death this year.

Combined with the bogus "positivity rate" that most lay people misinterpreted as the percentage of the population currently infected, this has been coordinated disinformation on a mass scale.

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kmm5y ago

Isn't that better than the US average?

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