SecondJon @SecondJon@qoto.org

@rose_myrtle shalom isn't necessarily far off... One biblical meaning is peace, quiet, tranquility.

Jesus did refer to himself as Lord of the Sabbath. It wasn't written in Hebrew words as a name, but would that count?

@freemo yes, that article from 7 months after they adjusted the number is different. Same state, same calendar year (barely), but different topic.

I'm tired and probably irritable, unrelated to this thread, so really trying to not be bombastic or anything here. Bear with me if you will.

My comment about Colorado was that there was only one set of numbers being presented by the state, which included anyone who died while having covid regardless of cause of death and when it hit the news that the only reported numbers included car accident deaths, Colorado changed how it reported.

You at first seemed to write off the idea of that kind of list... I'm sure it exists but it's not really relevant. Now I read you saying that of course it exists, it's super relevant, there's always and forever been two, and anyone who is educated would never think otherwise.

Here's one more source for you to read or ignore.

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DENVER (May 15, 2020): The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) today explained the way it has been counting deaths among people with COVID-19 and announced an addition to data reporting going forward. 

CDPHE explained that to date, its data dashboard included deaths among all people who had COVID-19 at the time of death. This included deaths caused by COVID-19 and deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death, but the cause or causes may not have been attributed to COVID-19 on the death certificate. This is the standard way states report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

Going forward, the state will present both numbers: Deaths among COVID-19 cases and deaths due to COVID-19.
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This is all I've been saying.

They changed how they reported the numbers after media reports about non covid cases being included in what this link says was the only list being pushed out AND saying it's not just Colorado but that every state was reporting to the CDC. Then this site says the state CHANGED how the Colorado government would report, to BEGIN distinguishing between the two lists.

Is this fox news? Some wild conspiracy theory website from the dark web?

https://covid19.colorado.gov/press-release/state-explains-covid-19-death-data-reporting

I'm glad they did the right thing on May 15, publishing both sets of data. For the first time. But that's not a conspiracy theory or a bad media source. It's the state directly.

Side note : I just read through the slide deck linked by that article. Covid as a probable or presumed cause even without any laboratory confirmation are included in the official death by covid ICD-10 code. That's interesting, but really, at all knew there weren't enough tests for a long time ago the numbers had to be presumed to some level.

@freemo Like I said, we were looking at the state department of health official numbers covid19.colorado.gov .
Of your argument is that the Colorado government from which we were directly getting information was pushing bad data, then are on the same page.

I don't believe men become angels when they become bureaucrats, politicians, or even doctors.

Just like a person writing a media report can convey false information, so can governmemt officials.

I took another 30 seconds to find another news source reporting, hopefully the liberal Denver Post isn't as triggering as a fox affiliate link.

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/05/15/colorado-covid-coronavirus-counting-deaths-fatalities/

Here's another, also not fox.

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/05/16/colorado-changes-how-coronavirus-deaths-state-counted/5198485002/

I'm surprised given previous discussions at how this interaction has gone. My only point is that it's reasonable to believe the data isn't accurate/consistent/unbiased /complete, but we should strive for consistency in how we choose to interpret it.

@freemo

So here in Colorado we all were daily watching the official Colorado department of health state wide numbers go up and up. Then one day there was a big drop. Not just to total numbers, but daily numbers on past dates. That's when we found the state had been keeping two sets of numbers and the official report was based on deaths with covid until that point. Then they switched out which set of numbers were officially reported.

You and I both agree that's not how things should be. So I look at this and it clarifies my perspective, reality does not align to my assumptions. You look at this and just deny the reality, and call me a conspiracy theorist and attack the name of the website that quoted the government leader who explained the change.

Well, OK then. When the response is calling me names because I belive my lying eyes rather than your assumptions, the conversation has lost value.

We'll interact better again on other topics, I'm sure.

"They have succeeded in amassing more and more things, but have less and less joy."

Dostoyevski, The Brothers Karamazov

@freemo
On this topic you may be putting to much faith in those reporting the numbers, which includes a lot of politics a lot of inconsistency and not a lot of transparency.

A 30 seconds web search verified what I had remembered. Colorado had been reporting as covid deaths those who didn't die of covid and changed its numbers only when caught.

"The story involved a 35-year-old man from Montezuma County who died May 4 of alcohol poisoning but whose death was counted in Colorado’s COVID-19 death toll."

“We have been reporting at the state, deaths among people who had COVID-19 at the time of death and the cause of that death may or may not have been COVID-19,” Dr. Eric France, the health department's chief medical officer...

It would be nice if what you said was true, that these lists were unrelated and had little to do with deaths reported as covid deaths, but that's verifiably false just here in my state where they got caught. You have confidence that everywhere around the world the doctors and political forces responsible for reporting these numbers are accurate, honest, and globally consistent? Really? Even with this story proving that not to be the case?

Over the last few weeks I have confirmed with several work colleagues in India that they are having family diagnosed with covid (several of whom have Died From Covid) with no covid tests at all. So they're covid deaths, though without any kind of test to indicate such.

But back to the original topic, that Coloradan who died of alcohol poisoning, his death should be considered a covid death or not regardless of his vaccination status. In just putting out a request for consistency.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-lowers-coronavirus-death-count

@freemo @icedquinn Here in Colorado after a report of an obvious non covid death (a gunshot victim I think) being included in covid deaths they clarified that the numbers meant deaths of people WITH covid, not DUE TO covid. I think at some point this expanded to people EXPOSED to others who had covid.

I have very little confidence that the governments pushing or reporting these numbers are going so consistently or accurately.

Now, whether a gunshot victim with covid died before or after being vaccinated shouldn't change whether that death is counted as a covid death. To discount numbers only on one side or the other seems clearly problematic.

@ThatDude no, the opposite of while guilt may be individual empowerment. Thinking of the writings of Shelby Steele which I highly recommend.

https://bookshop.org/books/white-guilt-how-blacks-and-whites-together-destroyed-the-promise-of-the-civil-rights-era-9781664791381/9780060578633

@WuTangHam @echoteecat I passed a masked someone on the #running trail yesterday. I thought of 4 possibilities :

1. Virtue signaling that they're not a conservative (like Hogg)
2. Virtue signaling that they're not vaccinated (local rules say vaccinated folks can be mask free)
3. They're really really ugly.
4. They live in and make decisions out of irrational fear.

NIH deleted data from early Wuhan COVID samples because a Chinese scientist asked them to.

https://notthebee.com/article/nih-deleted-data-from-early-wuhan-covid-samples-because-a-chinese-scientist-asked-them-to

Someone decided to Follow The Science instead #followthescience and found the data and its revealing.

Flying today, the TSA staff require everyone to put a face mask on to get through security.... Then immediately ask for the mask to come off for visual identification check.

@ReadyKilowatt LOL. Nothing here is personal... Mostly when I hear peeps insulting millennials lack of values it's coming from the generation that was tasked to pass on values, so I find it self destructive when followed through.

Also.... Looking at the charts, gen X didn't seem to be much different than millennials. I don't fit with the charts.... But that means that to average out there's people faring far far worse than the charts represent.

@stsmith wait now.... If pride gets more than one month, there won't be enough time to celebrate the rest of the seven deadly sins.