🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@stux

This cat clearly regrets its decision, though I'm not sure what that was :)

@yann2

@hansw@mastodon.social

Most viral diseases are of course going to follow similar patterns, and yea some people who are particularly eager to find an explanation that supports their biases might even use this somehow to argue COVID is flu-like... Still a pretty weak argument and clearly fueled by personal bias as I'd imagine you would agree.

@Science

@se7en Thuis is technically true but also misleading,, and not saying what you might think it says.

In short a "Motion for leave to file" is a fancy way of saying "I want you to stop the electoral college from voting until we have a chance to file our complaint". This is specifically what the justices have denied and have specified that if it wasn't for the request for leave them the case would have been heard (and they attempt it again with the new wording likely will be. However the election will not be halted in the interim.

Take the following quote from one of the justices.

> The State of Texas's motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.

> Statement of Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins: In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. See Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___ (Feb. 24, 2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting). I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.

@Hyolobrika

I'd remind them that simply saying something is true, when there is no evidence to back it up, is not really doing anyone any favors. Our reporting standards as to how we report a cause of death has not significantly changed in 2020.

@Science

Says alot when these COVID conspiracy idiots tell you your wrong and not even following the official data and make it a point to block you before you can even link to the official data that agrees with what was said.

I guess its a rush to stick your head in the sand before someone actually has a chance to provide real evidence that might challenge your dogma.

@wauz@muenchen.social

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Sterbefaelle-Lebenserwartung/Tabellen/sonderauswertung-sterbefaelle-pdf.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

@Science

@wauz@muenchen.social

I am literally looking at the official numbers as we speak to make sure I was speaking accurately. Yes they fit.

@Science

@wauz@muenchen.social

Actually it does. The overall death rate in germany, like most of europe, has been consistently higher than past years.

@Science

@wauz@muenchen.social

It applies worldwide and to most individual countries. I have specifically confirmed that the death toll increased in the USA and europe.

@Science

@icedquinn Just did a quick search, could not find a single peer reviewed study that matches your description of using influenza patients as standins for covid patients... not one of the "many" you claim to exist.

@icedquinn

Please link me to "many" such studies so I can see what your on about. Though regardless I hope you realize how beyond absurd the argument is that because there happenes to be some studies out there that use other diseases to infer things about COVID that therefore COVID must not be COVID... But that said i can look and consider.

@icedquinn What the hell are you even on about, I review journal papers all the time. Just read one yesterday that uses covid patients and it is hardly out of the ordinary. I have countless journal papers I've read that do....

@icedquinn Are you kidding me, they are not even remotely similar in structure.

@icedquinn wait, since when did california start requiring a mask for influenza?

@Atlas The data up to about the beginning of november should be reasonably accurate, anything after that is likely not the final numbers as death certificates still keep coming.

@Atlas There are many sources, all of which agree with the stated facts here.

Since 2020 isnt complete yet you would likely need to get historic data seperate from current year data.

Here is one source for historic data up to 2019:

https://population.un.org/wpp/

For 2020 you will need dataset from a provisional source since 2020 isnt complete. Here is a source of that data for 2020

https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-Counts-of-Deaths-by-State-and-Select-Causes/muzy-jte6

@Science

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.

#Science #Health #COVID #COVID19 #Corona #Coronavirus #CDC

@ChristianAnarchist Sounds cool except being completely untrue. The Death rate **increased** by 1.2% and has not been this high since the Avian flu. But hey lets make up some facts and hope no one notices amiright?

@sergiopantalone

Indeed it is, though technically a miniseries. But yea wasnt a bad watch.

@trinsec