There've been a few posts recently about how total deaths in the US this year are down compared to previous years. I was curious, so I ran the numbers myself based on the same CDC data that other posters and their sources supposedly used.
I pulled the last 4 years of weekly raw data from the CDC here: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
Then I tallied and compared the totals for the first 47 weeks of each year (these numbers are TOTAL DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES in the US):
2017 2515944
2018 2551868
2019 2559485
2020 2886361
Based on this data, total deaths are up by over 300,000 this year vs each of the last 3 years, which were each within 50,000 of one another.
Whenever I mention these stats on conspiracies.win I get downvoted, but nobody ever has a response, so I think I'm on to something!
What do you think could've caused this?
conspiracies.win, where uncomfortable statistics are silently downvoted and sexy photos of the first lady are upvoted to the top.
Because when it fits the narrative, people here are more than happy to upvote CDC statistics. Look at this shitpost that got 50 upvotes: https://conspiracies.win/p/11R4ufrAqE/with-covid-having-such-a-devasta/c/
Maybe I should've put my back of napkin statistics in a power point and took a picture of my computer monitor with my phone, then posted it without any actual links to the data at hand. That would be more conspiracies.win style.
The great thing about the napkin data I shared: you don't have to trust me! You can run the numbers yourself! Because I shared the source and my process!
And yeah, totally reasonable to not trust CDC data, but that doesn't explain the downvotes given that there are several other posts on this site based on CDC data that people here find more palatable.
What are you referring to? Are you accusing me of not pulling the raw data on total deaths (all causes) and tallying the numbers for the first 47 weeks of each year?