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So seems the latest wave of stupid on the internet is to claim that the deaths in 2020 were no more than in 2018, 2019 or other past years, which apparently means the coronavirus is a hoax or some such nonsense.

Nevermind the fact that there isn't an iota of truth anywhere in that nonsense. The number of deaths in 2020 is significantly higher than past years. In fact even though we only have data up to the beginning of december and 2 weeks of that is incomplete/delayed.. therefore we have about 6 weeks of data yet to be finalized. Despite that we are hundreds of thousands more deaths ahead of 2019 and 2018, by about 300,000 more so far. Hell the death rate is increased even if you **dont count** COVID by more than 1.2%...

Here is a crazy idea, instead of getting your knowledge base from random internet memes how about trying some research from time to time maybe? It isnt like its hard to find the real numbers.

@freemo

Source? I've spent time trying to just get the data, looking at the CDC and other sites, and they make it very difficult to pull your own numbers on it.

Would be very interested in getting the actual mortality rates by week, over the past 36 months, in a usable format.
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@Atlas @freemo
I agree, it'd be great to see this data and it's been hard to find. Everything I've found either ends at 2018 or has too high granularity to resolve the actual impact of covid-19.

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